Performance in Synthetic Benchmarks

Futuremark 3DMark05 build 1.2.0

3DMark05 confirms the GeForce 7900 GS’s superiority over the Radeon X1800 GTO, although the difference of 550 points is not impressive at all. At the default frequencies the Nvidia card scores 2277 points less than the ATI Radeon X1950 Pro. That’s bad for the 7900 GS considering the equal price of the two solutions. As always, we will publish the results of each of the gaming tests of this benchmark.

The first and third tests depict large scenes and thus require a high fill rate and a high speed of raster operations. The GeForce 7900 GS does much better than the Radeon X1800 GTO, but, quite expectably, worse than the Radeon X1950 Pro. The new graphics card from ATI is indeed an unrivalled leader in the $199 category.

In the second test with a smaller scene the GeForce 7900 GS equals the performance of the Radeon X1800 GTO. The ATI solution is even somewhat better in high resolutions, probably due to an extra vertex processor (the importance of vertex processors in this test is indicated by the results of the Radeon X1800 GTO in comparison with the GeForce 7900 GT).