Leadtek WinFast PX 8600 GT THD Review

Testing:

Testing Setup:

• Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6600 CPU
• Asus P5B motherboard
• 2 x 1GB Mushkin XP2-9200 ram
• Leadtek PX8600GT THD (nVidia)
• PNY 8500GT (nVidia)
• Sapphire HD2400XT (ATi)
• Sapphire HD2600XT (ATi)
• Foxconn 8600GTS (nVidia)
• NZXT Precise 1200w PSU
• Samsung SyncMaster 245BW Monitor
• Windows XP Pro SP2
• DirectX 9.0c
• All Video Drivers are the most up to date at time of benchmarks

Gaming Benchmarks:

• Far Cry: Hardware OC (Ubisoft Volcano)
• F.E.A.R. (Performance test)
• BioShock (FRAPS)
• Call of Duty 2: Stalingrad (FRAPS)
• Quake 4: Hardware OC
• Need For Speed Most Wanted (FRAPS)
• 3DMark 06
• RyderMark

Benchmark: Far Cry:

Far Cry is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Crytek Studios from Germany and was published by Ubisoft on March 23, 2004 for Windows. Far Cry sold 730,000 units within four months of release.

Settings:

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

The PX8600GT does remarkably well against the others in Far Cry.