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MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT

"In this article we test the MSI GeForce 5900 XT against the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT using the following software:- 3dmark 2001 SE, 3dmark 2003, Comanche4, GL Excess, Quake III Arena, Serious Sam the Second Encounter, Unreal Tournament 2003 and X2 The Threat."

MSI ignites the cinematic revolution with the most powerful members of the NVIDIA® GeForce™ FX family-the GeForce 5900 XT graphic card with 2.8ns Ultra Speed DDR memory. Powered by the second-generation NVIDIA® CineFX™ 2.0 engine with the industry's only true 128-bit precision processing-MSI GeForce 5900 XT graphic card take cinematic quality special effects to new levels!!!

With the most advanced overclocking engine of MSI, Dynamic Overclocking Technology™, it enhances 10% Overclocking Level Performance.

MSI's best engineering process and design maximizes the overcloking possibility! MSI GeForce 5900 XT series equips the most advanced Dynamic Overclocking Technology, enabling the synchronized GPU & DDR overclocking performance up to 10% improvement by 6-level setting Commander, General, Colonel, Captain, Sergeant and Private levels. With the best optimization and easiest setting within the driver's menu, D.O.T. becomes the conqueror of all the DirectX 9.0 designed PC games!

Continuing the MSI tradition of incorporating only the best engineering process and design techniques, the GeForce 5900 XT series take advantage of the most advanced and sophisticated T.O.P. TECH™ COOLING technology. This advanced ventilation cooling mechanism enables higher performance through faster clock rates, while still remains in comparable low GPU temperature.

MSI GeForce 5900 XT Series also introduce NVIDIA® Intellisample™ high-resolutioncompression technology (HCT), which extends the experience of ultra-realistic visuals at lightning-fast speeds to higher resolutions and antialiasing levels. Intellisample HCT includes an advanced anisotropic engine designed to deliver true anisotropic filtering for incredible image quality without performance degradation. The advanced antialiasing and anisotropic filtering techniques combined with the industry's only true 128-bit precision computation capabilities result in image quality unmatched by any other solution.

Advanced pixel shaders in the new CineFX 2.0 engine deliver up to double the floating-point pixel shader power of previous-generation GPUs, allowing for faster, more efficient execution of even the most complex pixel shading tasks. In addition, CineFX 2.0 continues to deliver the highest level of image quality and film-industry levels of precision through true 128-bit precision computing, enabling special effects on par with Hollywood films.

With the latest NVIDIA ULTRASHADOW™ TECHNOLOGY, MSI FX 5900 XT Series accelerates shadow volumes for next generation games, while accurately maintains shadows and discarding non-useful information.

MSI FX 5900 XT Series equips Dynamic Overclocking Technology, and T.O.P. TECH Cooling, developing the supreme overclocking & cooling & de-noise performance. Outstanding cooling performance, quiet de-noise performance, and the innovative design of Dynamic Overclocking solution is what MSI brings out the best engineering process and design techniques for FX 5900 XT Series.

SYNTHETIC BENCHMARKS 3DMARK 2001 SE 13797 12465 10222 7720 3DMARK 2003 4954 3899 2940 1885 GLEXCESS 11323 9148 8538 7232 MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT (HQ) SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT (HQ) COMMENT 3DMARK 2001 SE - The MSI GeForce 5900 XT storms into 1st place with a 1332 point lead over the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT, things get even more interesting when we enable 4xaa/8xaf and the MSI GeForce 5900 XT manages a massive 2502 point lead over the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT. The reason for the MSI GeForce 5900 XT's great performance is it's huge 50% fillrate advantage over the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT. The MSI GeForce 5900 XT's vertex shader is also 25% faster and when it comes to pixel shading it's 34% faster. 3DMARK 2003 - Let's see how the MSI GeForce 5900 XT performs in this DX9 benchmark, once again the MSI GeForce 5900 XT is in first place leading the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT by 1055 points and even after enabling 4xaa/8xaf the MSI GeForce 5900 XT still leads the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT by 1047 points. Once again the reason for the impressive MSI GeForce 5900 XT performance is it's 50% fillrate advantage over the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT. BENCHMARK SETTINGS 3DMARK 2001 SE 1024x768 Resolution 32Bit color D3D Hardware T&L Antialiasing Disabled Double Frame Buffer Compressed Texture Format 24Bit Z-Buffer Depth 3DMARK 2003 1024x768 Resolution No Pixel Processing Optimal Texture Filtering 4x Max Anisotropy Optimal Vertex Shaders No Repeat Tests No Fixed Framerate GLEXCESS5 1024x768 Resolution Scene 1 Intro Scene 2 Waver Scene 3 Facescape Scene 4 Exploding Logo COMMENT GL EXCESS - Unlike the two 3dmark programs featured above GLexcess uses OpenGL and not Direct3D. Once again the MSI GeForce 5900 XT leads the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT by a massive 2175 points and 1306 points with 4xaa/8xaf enabled.

3DMARK 2001 SE CAR CHASE 198 148 68 67 DRAGOTHIC 257 227 141 129 LOBBY 181 175 81 80 NATURE 82 72 MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT (HQ) SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT (HQ) BENCHMARK SETTINGS 1024x768 Resolution 32Bit color D3D Hardware T&L Antialiasing Disabled Double Frame Buffer Compressed Texture Format 24Bit Z-Buffer Depth COMMENT - "The MSI GeForce 5900 XT wins all of the game tests at low quality very easily. However the HQ game tests are much more stressful and the MSI GeForce 5900 XT and Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT are about equal."

3DMARK 2003 GAMES WINGS OF FURY 157 133 BATTLE OF PROXYCON 37 25 TROLL'S LAIR 30 23 MOTHER NATURE 29 24 MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT BENCHMARK SETTINGS 1024x768 Resolution No Pixel Processing Optimal Texture Filtering 4x Max Anisotropy Optimal Vertex Shaders No Repeat Tests No Fixed Framerate COMMENT - "Both the MSI GeForce 5900 XT and Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT run the dx7 game test very well, with the two dx8 game tests both video cards start to struggle although the MSI GeForce 5900 XT managed to stay near 30fps."

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