PowerColor HD 2400 Pro 256 MB

Testing:

To test the PowerColor HD 2400 Pro video card, I will run it through a series of well known benchmarks and guage the performance level based on frames per second counts and benchmark scores. The benchmarks I will use are Far Cry, F.E.A.R., Microsoft Flight Simulator X, Call of Duty 2, Quake 4, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, 3DMark06, and RyderMark. The setup of each benchmark will be shown before the graphs for each test.

Test Setup:

• Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo Processor
• Asus P5N32-E SLI motherboard
• 2GB OCZ PC2-6400 EL Platinum ram
• 3 Seagate 320GB SATA II drives, RAID 5
• LG GSA-H22L-BLK 18x DVD ROM
• Windows XP Professional SP2

Video Cards Compared:

• PowerColor HD 2400 Pro 256 MB
• Sapphire HD2400 XT
• Sapphire HD2600 XT
• Foxconn 8600 GTS 

Benchmark: Far Cry

Far Cry is a game that was introduced a few years ago but still has many advanced features to task any of the newer video cards.

Settings:

• Maximum quality option, Direct3D renderer
• Level: Volcano, demo: Volcano.tmd
• Pixel shader: model 2.0b
• Antialising: 4×
• Anisotropic filtering: 8×
• HDR: disabled
• Geometry Instancing: disabled
• Normal-maps compression: disabled