Performance in Synthetic Benchmarks

Futuremark 3DMark03

There is almost nothing for the Radeon X1900 to exercise its talents upon in 3DMark03, except that its enlarged HyperZ buffer may be useful at stencil shadows rendering. On the other hand, the frequency growth of the ASUS EAX1800 XT TOP may come in handy as it makes up somewhat for the GeForce 7800 GTX 512’s having more TMUs (24 against 16). The ASUS card cannot beat the latter, of course, but it manages to leave the rest of the test participants behind anyway.

The ASUS EAX1800XT TOP is just a little faster than the Radeon X1800 XT and Radeon X1900 XT. Its advantage is not bigger than 10% in any of the test modes. And this is not enough to overtake the GeForce 7800 GTX in resolutions above 1024x768 at the “pure speed” settings.

In the second test the ASUS card boasts the highest results among all the participating devices on ATI Technologies’ chips even though the Radeon X1900 XT is equipped with a larger Z-buffer. Moreover, the 800 (1600) MHz memory helps the EAX1800XT TOP outperform the GeForce 7800 GTX 512 in high resolutions of the “eye candy” mode.