Futuremark 3DMark05

3DMark05 has it in a different way: the RADEON X1600 XT, not brilliant in earlier tests, shows its best in this benchmark where the graphics card has to process huge amounts of complex shaders. But anyway, the GeForce 6800 GS scores only 102 points less, so we can consider these two cards as equals. Let’s see if it is so in each of the tests.

The first test doesn’t seem to bring any surprises and the GeForce 6800 GS goes abreast to the RADEON X1600 XT, but the latter doesn’t do so well in the “eye candy” mode. Despite the brand new architecture and high GPU and memory frequencies, the RADEON X1000 only outperforms the previous-generation RADEON X800 XL there.