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ASUS N6600 GT/TD Graphics Card Review (page 6)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin

[ 05/13/2005 | 09:23 AM ]

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It’s difficult to talk about one graphics card being faster than another in the “pure speed” mode since all the participating devices are almost equally fast. Anyway, it’s clear the N6600 GT/TD is ahead of the RADEON 9800 XT in 1600x1200.

The “eye candy” mode suits better for our benchmarking needs. You can see the ASUS card successfully crunching through the low resolutions, but then slowing down almost to the level of the RADEON 9800 XT in 1600x1200 as the load on the memory subsystem becomes unbearable. On the other hand, the slightly overclocked N6600 GT wins this round, too.

Without full-screen anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, the ASUS N6600 GT/TD is always ahead of the RADEON 9800 XT on the Metallurgy map. Overclocking helps to make the gap bigger but the ASUS card still cannot overtake the RADEON X800 PRO.

FSAA and anisotropic filtering activated, the ASUS is still faster than the RADEON 9800 XT but loses its ground suddenly in 1600x1200 due to the narrow 128-bit memory bus.