Performance in Synthetic Benchmarks

Futuremark 3DMark03 build 360

The PowerColor X800 GTO 16 brings about a nice performance boost over the ordinary Radeon X800 GTO, yet this is not enough to overtake the GeForce 6800 GS, which is better suited to the conditions of the first three 3DMark03 tests.

The first test uses fixed-function T&L only, so the GeForce 6800 GS wins expectedly. The PowerColor X800 GTO 16 only gets closer to its opponent in 1600x1200 with enabled FSAA and anisotropic filtering.

The results of the second test are roughly similar to the first one, except that the PowerColor X800 GTO 16, which doesn’t have any technologies to accelerate stencil shadows rendering but does have a higher-performing memory controller, overtakes the GeForce 6800 GS a little earlier, in 1280x1024 resolution at the “eye candy” settings.