Futuremark 3DMark05

3DMark05 has quite a different story to tell. It uses complex pixel shaders, so it is no wonder the overclocked Radeon X1800 XT (we mean the ASUS EAX1800XT TOP, of course) finds it impossible to compete with the 48 pixel processors of the Radeon X1900 XT. Anyway, the ASUS card delivers the performance of a GeForce 7800 GTX 512 in this benchmark, which is a superb achievement. Let’s examine the results in more detail now.

In the first test the ASUS is less than 10% ahead of the ordinary, non-overclocked Radeon X1800 XT and is also 10-20% behind the Radeon X1900 XT. The gap between the ASUS EAX1800XT TOP and the GeForce 7800 GTX 512 is smaller, especially in the “pure speed” mode.