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Posted by
Julio
Franco on December 28, 2001
Manufacturer: Visiontek
Products: Xtasy
6964
- Xtasy
6564
- Xtasy
5864
Check
for Xtasy
Ti Line videocard prices.
The drivers CD contained 21.85
Detonators however I downloaded the latest version available
on NVIDIA's website for benchmarking, since Visiontek
provides the same reference drivers there shouldn't be any
problems with videocard extra features such as TV-out. All
benchmarks were run three times in order to get the most
accurate numbers, here you have the specs of the system I
used for testing...
Test
System
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AMD Athlon TBird 1.3 GHz
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512mb PC133 SDRAM
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MSI KT7 Turbo Limited Ed. KT133A
Socket A motherboards
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Visiontek Xtasy 6964/6564/5864
Titanium & MX400 Personal Cinema videocards
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2x Maxtor DiamondMax 60 HDs 7200RPM
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Pioneer 16x DVD-ROM
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Plextor CD-RW 12/10/32A
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SB Audigy soundcard
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Windows XP Professional
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NVIDIA Detonator drivers 23.11
Additionally to the Xtasy videocards, I
also used a GeForce 2 MX400 videocard for comparison. None
of the card settings were tweaked but ran at default
settings with V-Sync turned off. I used 1024x768 and
1600x1200 resolutions for testing which should better
reflect videocard speed differences without getting limited
by the CPU.
Quake 3 Arena
Although Quake 3 is a
fairly old game, it's still considered a very reliable
benchmark. Not to mention that many recent FPS are using the
same engine but with modifications (ex: RTCW).
Quake 3 clearly shows that
you get an instant boost when climbing from one card to the
other. While the GF2 Ti did pretty well on the 1024 tests,
it fell behind the faster GeForce's 3 when going up to
1600x1200 resolutions. The difference between the Ti200 and
Ti500 boards shouldn't be noticeable in real life, at least
not in Quake 3 with no additional effects like FSAA. Not a
big surprise, the MX400 board is, well... behind. Even in
Quake 3 you will get half the speed than with a GF2 Titanium
card.
Serious Sam
The old style fashioned FPS
from Croteam has become really popular, and with the
"Second Encounter" coming soon, I think we will
have Sam around for a longer than expected time.
Although numbers aren't
quite as high as Quake 3 ones, you would be surprised by all
the eye candy you get on Serious Sam and the little impact
it's got on your hardware. Unless you're planning on running
the game at outrageous resolutions, all cards on the
Titanium line should perform similarly. It's probable that
the difference between cards would get bigger if we would
have tested on a faster CPU. Unfortunately the MX400 is
still getting tortured here ;).
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