Some x800 vanilla benchmarks

[zendari]

I just received my new x800 vanilla card mentioned in this thread.

Card in question

The card is about $180, cheaper on sale, and is IMO a superior PCIE alternative to anything in its price range.

System rig:
Athlon64 skt 939 @ 2700 mhz
1 GB Valueselect Corsair RAM
DFI Lanparty Nforce 4 motherboard
ATI Radeon x800 graphics card @ stock speeds.

Settings:
5.6 catalyst drivers, all settings on default
AGP aperture at 256 mb

Some overclocking info:

These chips have phenominal 2.0 ns ram (rated at 500 mhz). The default clocks are 390 core and 350 ram, so there is huge overclocking headroom!

I was able to overclock it successfully to 465 core and 515 ram on the default cooling. Incredible overclock from this card, this is easily almost up to x800/x850 pro levels of performance.


Benchmarks:

3dmark 2003 default score: 9563

3dmark 2005 default score: 4226

3dmark 2005 (465/515) default score: 4558

Halflife 2 VST 12x10 4x/16x: 68 fps
Halflife 2 VST 16x12 4x/16x: 53 fps

UT2k4 Torlan map (using FRAPS) 16x12 4x/16x: 61 fps

Doom 3 timedemo 12x10 high quality: 49 fps
Doom 3 timedemo 16x12 high quality: 35 fps

Farcry demo level (using FRAPS) 12x10 16x: 64 fps
Farcry demo level (using FRAPS) 16x12 16x: 40 fps

Note these are just me running through the level, may not be 100% accurate. 16x12 is unplayable on this card for Farcry.

More benches to come.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Well you sure picked two very strong ATI-leaning games to benchmark first.

Tough also to compare such different systems.

 

[zendari]

I don't have much else in the way of GPU stressing games now that my wow account has expired. Care to donate?

 

[mwmorph]

wow is not gpu stressing. more ram stressing. try the Fear demo, Doom3 demo and far cry demos.

 

[BillyBobJoel71]

doom3, halo, and far cry.

 

[Killrose]

Bummer, did'nt some of these cards have rebates on them last week? like $30 rebates?

 

[zendari]

Originally posted by: Killrose
Bummer, did'nt some of these cards have rebates on them last week? like $30 rebates?

Yup, thats when I bought it.

Doom 3 bench added.

 

[Avalon]

Did you mean a different resolution when you said "16x12 is unplayable on this card" ? You benched fairly decent numbers in most games at 16x12.

😛

Nice little card.

 

[zendari]

Na, that was only for Farcry. Despite 40 fps, it felt slower than that.

 

[Avalon]

You were sporting some pretty heavy AF, don't forget.

 

[cbehnken]

Nice to see benches on this card now that it's widely available.

 

[kmmatney]

How about some overclocked benches? I think this card has some overclokcing headroom.

 

[videoclone]

Athlon 64 939 at 2.7Gz with a X800 128mb, 1GbMem gets a better 3Dmark2005 score then ... my Athlon 64 754 at 2.2Ghz with Geforce6800Ultra 256mb, 1GbMem


Just goes to show how a faster CPU can Makeup for a weeker Videocard.

In 2 years time i'll be getting a AthlonX2 board and CPU ... not sure what i'm going to do with my AGP card.... may still be able to get Nforce3board then .. maybe.

 

[Rock Hydra]

Add Quake 3 for the hell of it?

 

[Powermoloch]

Originally posted by: videoclone
Athlon 64 939 at 2.7Gz with a X800 128mb, 1GbMem gets a better 3Dmark2005 score then ... my Athlon 64 754 at 2.2Ghz with Geforce6800Ultra 256mb, 1GbMem


Just goes to show how a faster CPU can Makeup for a weeker Videocard.

In 2 years time i'll be getting a AthlonX2 board and CPU ... not sure what i'm going to do with my AGP card.... may still be able to get Nforce3board then .. maybe.

what's ur actually 3Dmark05 score 🙂 ?

My new card can dish out 6110 pts @ 05 being in stocks speed. Also having a 3100+ at the same time.

 

[Matt2]

My 3DMark score:

5624

System in sig.

 

[zendari]

Originally posted by: videoclone
Athlon 64 939 at 2.7Gz with a X800 128mb, 1GbMem gets a better 3Dmark2005 score then ... my Athlon 64 754 at 2.2Ghz with Geforce6800Ultra 256mb, 1GbMem


Just goes to show how a faster CPU can Makeup for a weeker Videocard.

In 2 years time i'll be getting a AthlonX2 board and CPU ... not sure what i'm going to do with my AGP card.... may still be able to get Nforce3board then .. maybe.

😕

With a 6800 U you should be getting 5k+.

 

[blckgrffn]

Nice card, nice post... 🙂

Any oc'ing?

Thanks!
Nat

 

[Munky]

Nice card. It wasnt really designed to storm through 16x12 frames faster than <insert lame analogy here>, but it will probably beat any card for <$200, and handle any game at 12x10 without a hickup.

:beer:

 

[Leper Messiah]

But can't you find XLs for about that price? ($180ish). At $150 its an excellent deal, easily beats a 6600gt in everything exept maybe D3...

 

[blckgrffn]

Where can you find XL's for $180, let alone $150?

Nat

 

[Leper Messiah]

Originally posted by: blckgrffn
Where can you find XL's for $180, let alone $150?

Nat

lol. I just got pwned by my use of pronouns. I've seen some hot deals where XLs were like 179. I was talking about the X800vanillia being a good deal at $150...

 

[blckgrffn]

Ok, I just thought that I might be missing out on something 😉

Nat

 

[ender11122]

Originally posted by: L3p3rM355i4h

Originally posted by: blckgrffn
Where can you find XL's for $180, let alone $150?

Nat

lol. I just got pwned by my use of pronouns. I've seen some hot deals where XLs were like 179. I was talking about the X800vanillia being a good deal at $150...

There was only one and it was a mistake on ATI's website that lasted about 10 minutes. Usually $250+

 

[Killrose]

BTW, has anyone seen a hack available for these to see if the other pipes can be unlocked? Like a bios flash to an 800XL, but with only 128mb?