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PowerColor Bravo X700 Graphics Card Review: High-End Features at Affordable Price? (page 24)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin

[ 09/14/2005 | 01:58 PM ]

Performance in Synthetic Benchmarks

Futuremark 3DMark03

The PowerColor card scores about 1100 points less than the standard RADEON X700 and about 400 points less than the GeForce 6600. That’s the result of putting slow memory on this card.

The difference between memory frequencies of 700MHz and 533MHz can be seen well in the first test: it’s only in the “eye candy” mode that the PowerColor competes with the GeForce 6600.

The PowerColor Bravo X700 is still slower than the GeForce 6600 in the second test, even though the gap is very small. The latter features the UltraShadow II technology which helps a lot to render the test scene with its stencil shadows.