XFX 8600 GT Fatal1ty Review

Testing:

Testing Setup:

• AMD 64 6000+ AM2 CPU
• Abit AN-M2HD (nVidia Onboard Graphics : Off)
• 2GB Mushkin XP6400
• XFX 8600 GT Fatal1ty
• XFX 8600 GTS XXX
• Msi NX8600 GT Twin Turbo
• Gigabyte 8600 GT
• Apevia 450W PSU
• Maxtor Diamond Max 9 100 GB SATA Hard Drive
• Apevia X-Qpak2 Case
• Windows XP Pro SP2
• DirectX 9.0c
• BenQ FP222WH Monitor

Gaming Benchmarks:

• Far Cry: Hardware OC (Ubisoft Volcano)
• F.E.A.R. (Performance test)
• Call of Duty 2: Stalingrad (FRAPS)
• Quake 4: Hardware OC
• Need For Speed Most Wanted (FRAPS)
• Microsoft Flight Simulator X

Benchmark: Far Cry

As I have in the past, I will begin with Far Cry. Although it is an older game, it is still a very popular benchmark, and I always like to see what results any video card will bring.

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