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Our testing was particularily hastened because before running tests on the new cards, we decided to run an entirely new test platform, which meant re-benchmarking everything for the purpose of this article. Due to the large time constraints of putting together a launch article like this, our benchmark suite is somewhat annotated. We hope to be adding performance numbers for Battlefield 2 and Age of Empires 3 specifically in the near future.
Also to note, Nvidia sent us the Beta release of its Rel80 drivers to use for benchmarking against the new ATI cards. This means that all the numbers in this test (with the exception of the X800 XL and X850) were taken from prerelease software. This means that there is still alot of wiggle room (for ATI anyways) to squeeze more performance and optimization out of the hardware. We be rebenchmarking as the software releases permit, and trying to keep our numbers as fresh as possible.
For this test, we used the latest drivers sent from both ATI and Nvidia, and did a clean install of Windows on each harddrive before testing.
Our test system consisted of the following:
It may seem odd to run our CPU's at 2.7GHz, and that certainly doesn't seem practical as it's not possible to buy a 2.7 GHz AMD CPU! The idea was to try and maximise our CPU (without buying 2 FX-57's) so that it's as small a performance limiter as possible. With this article, we are looking at which GPU is fastest, not how a specific system you might buy will perform. We will save that for when we get production boards from ATI's partners.
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