Futuremark 3DMark06

3DMark06 uses a number of very complex shaders of versions 2.0 and 3.0, shadow mapping and HDR to create the special effects in its graphics tests. Having 96 pixel processors is more than welcome here and the Radeon X1900 XT CrossFire has the highest overall score as well as the highest results in the SM2.0 and SM3.0/HDR tests taken separately. Note also that the GeForce 7800 GTX SLI is faster than the Radeon X1800 XT CrossFire in the SM2.0 tests despite the lower clock rates. The math1ematical performance of the pixel processors is not as important there as it is for the SM3.0/HDR tests.

512 megabytes is an insufficient amount of graphics memory to turn on Super AA 14x or SLI AA 16x in 3DMark06, so we didn’t perform the tests in this mode. In the other cases the Radeon X1900 XT CrossFire is an unrivalled leader, delivering a 10% to 40% performance gain over the Radeon X1800 XT CrossFire depending on the resolution.