Futuremark 3DMark05

The Leadtek kit is only 155 points worse than the RADEON X850 XT Platinum Edition and beats it at the overclocked frequencies. Let’s see what we have in the subtests.

Outperforming the GeForce 6800 Ultra and going almost at the same speed with the RADEON X850 XT in the first two resolutions, the SLI platform can only do the same through overclocking in 1600x1200. Overclocking is really rewarding here, ensuring a 10-20% performance gain.

The new driver helped us launch this test on NVIDIA’s graphics cards equipped with 128MB of memory in 1280x1024 resolution of the “eye candy” mode (earlier, only 1024x768 had been available). In the lowest resolution the Leadtek kit isn’t much worse than the GeForce 6800 Ultra, but slows down below the level of the GeForce 6800 GT in 1280x1024 – 3DMark05’s scenes feature highly complex graphics, and the amount and bandwidth of the graphics memory play a crucial role in the “eye candy” mode.