XFX 8600 GTS XXX Edition
Admin - July 10, 2007» Discuss this article (6)
Testing:
Testing Setup:
- AMD 64 5400+ AM2 CPU
- Abit AN9 32x
- 2GB Mushkin XP8500
- Mushkin 650w PSU
- XFX (nVidia) 8600 GTS XXX 256 MB (Mainstream)
- XFX (nVidia) 8800GTS 320mb (High End)
- Power Color (ATI) X1650 Pro Golden Pig Edition (Mainstream DX9)
- XFX (nVidia) 7600 GT Fatal1ty Professional Series (Mainstream DX9)
- Sapphire (ATI) HD 2900 XT 512 MB (Mainstream/High End)
- Windows XP Pro SP2
- DirectX 9.0c
- All Video Drivers are the most up to date at time of benchmarks.
- 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
The HD 2900 XT is a 512 MB video card, which is twice that of the XFX 8600 GTS XXX, yet even in the highest tested resolution, there was only a 22 fps difference.
