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GEFORCE PCX 5900 PERFORMANCE

"Powered by the Geforce PCX 5900 GPU this video card uses PCI-Express, Directx 9.0 and has 128MB DDR memory using a 256-bit memory interface. The original Geforce 5900 was a high price video card produced for the high-end market, Nvidia later released a cheaper to produce version of the Geforce 5900 called the Geforce 5900 XT which was clocked slightly slower than the Geforce 5900 while retaining the important features of the Geforce 5900 like the 256bit memory interface. Although you would expect the Geforce PCX 5900 to offer compariable performance to the Geforce 5900 the Geforce PCX 5900 is clocked quite abit slower and will offer performance more like the Geforce 5900 XT. For this review we have benchmarked using 23 games including 1944 Battle of the Bulge, Aurora Watching, Chronicles of Riddick, Codename Panzers Phase 2, Comanche4, Delta Force Extreme, Earth 2160, Far Cry, GT Legends, King Kong, Lego Starwars, Quake 3, Quake 4, Scooter War3z, Scrapland, Serious Sam 2, Trackmania Sunrise, Tribes Vengeance, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2004, Warhammer 40,000 - Dawn of War, World Racing 2 and Xpand Rally."
NVIDIA GEFORCE PCX 5900

NVIDIA GEFORCE PCX 5900 SPECIFICATIONS

CINEFX ENGINE - Powers cinematic effects beyond imagination. With advanced vertex and pixel shader capabilities, stunning and complex special effects are possible. In addition, increased horsepower delivers faster and smoother gameplay.

HIGH-PRECISION GRAPHICS - By combining the incredible dynamic range of today's state-of-the-art 3D motion pictures with 128-bit studio-precision colour, the GeForce FX GPUs bring you the industry’s best image quality for the most demanding applications.

NVIEW MULTI-DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY - The nView hardware and software technology combination delivers maximum flexibility for multi-display options, and provides unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience.

DIGITAL VIBRANCE CONTROL (DVC) - Allows the user to adjust colour controls digitally to compensate for the lighting conditions of their workspace, in order to achieve accurate, bright colours in all conditions. Currently this feature is not available on Mac systems.

MICROSOFT DIRECTX® 9.0 OPTIMIZATIONS AND SUPPORT - Ensures the best performance and application compatibility for all DirectX 9 applications.

OPENGL® 1.4 OPTIMIZATIONS AND SUPPORT - Ensures the best performance and application compatibility for all OpenGL applications.

HARDWARE MPEG-2 DECODER - Delivers full-frame, full-screen MPEG-2 video on your desktop.

DVI SUPPORT - Able to drive the industry's largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays with up to 1600x1200 resolution.

350MHz RAMDAC - Supports QXGA displays with ergonomic refresh rates.

ARCHITECTED FOR CG - Ensures that the newest, cutting-edge special effects in applications will run flawlessly. Speeds up content creation so game developers can get their new games out to PC users faster than ever before.

UNIFIFED DRIVER ARCHITECTURE (UDA) - Guarantees forward and backward compatibility with software drivers. Simplifies upgrading to a new NVIDIA product because all NVIDIA products work with the same driver software.

CHIP GPU CORE
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MEMORY
CLOCK MHZ
MEMORY
INTERFACE
PIXELS
PER CLOCK
DIRECTX
GEFORCE PCX 5900 NV34 350 500 256 8 9.0
CHIP GPU CORE
CLOCK MHZ
MEMORY
CLOCK MHZ
MEMORY
INTERFACE
PIXELS
PER CLOCK
DIRECTX

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR AMD ATHLON64 3000
VIDEO CARD NVIDIA GEFORCE PCX 5900
NVIDIA DRIVER FORCEWARE v81.98
MOTHERBOARD ASROCK 939 DUAL SATA2
MEMORY 2 x 512MB OCZ GOLD XTC PC3200 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2
DIRECTX VERSION v9.0c

1944 - BATTLE
OF THE BULGE

LOW QUALITY

800x600140
1024x768137
1280x1024115
1600x120089

MEDIUM QUALITY

800x60046
1024x76842
1280x102436
1600x120031

HIGH QUALITY

800x60035
1024x76831
1280x102426
1600x120022

800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200

COMMENT - "Geforce PCX 5900 delivers a very playable performance using low quality settings and is playable at all resolutions. Even though the Geforce PCX 5900 takes a 60% performance hit when using medium quality settings the Geforce PCX 5900 is still playable at all resolutions. The Geforce PCX 5900 takes a further 25% performance hit when using high quality settings the Geforce PCX 5900 is still playable upto 1024x768."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

St. Vith Scenario

LOW QUALITY

Texture Detail Low
Particle Density Low
Shadow Resolution Low
Water Disabled
Decals Disabled
Fog Enabled
Wire Physics Disabled
Grass Disabled

MEDIUM QUALITY

Texture Detail Medium
Particle Density Medium
Shadow Resolution Medium
Water Disabled
Decals Enabled
Fog Enabled
Wire Physics Disabled
Grass Enabled

HIGH QUALITY

Texture Detail High
Particle Density High
Shadow Resolution High
Water Enabled
Decals Enabled
Fog Enabled
Wire Physics Enabled
Grass Enabled

AURORA WATCHING

LOW QUALITY

800x60070
1024x76852
1280x102445
1600x120039

MEDIUM QUALITY

800x60057
1024x76840
1280x102434
1600x120027

HIGH QUALITY

800x60034
1024x76824
1280x102419
1600x120015

800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200

COMMENT - "The Geforce PCX 5900 has no problem running Aurora Watching at a playable level and delivers playable performance at all resolutions when using low quality settings. The Geforce PCX 5900 takes a 19% performance hit when using medium quality settings but is still playable upto 1280x1024. Unfortunately High Quality settings reduce the performance of the Geforce PCX 5900 by 40% and it can only deliver a playable performance at 800x600 using high quality settings."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

"Worst Hangover Ever" Level

LOW QUALITY

Quality Shadows Disabled
Texture Resolution 25%
Pixel Shaders Disabled
Fullscreen Effects Disabled
Decal Textures Disabled
High Particle Count Enabled

MEDIUM QUALITY

Quality Shadows Enabled
Texture Resolution 50%
Pixel Shaders Disabled
Fullscreen Effects Disabled
Decal Textures Enabled
High Particle Count Enabled

HIGH QUALITY

Quality Shadows Enabled
Texture Resolution 75%
Pixel Shaders Enabled
Fullscreen Effects Disabled
Decal Textures Enabled
High Particle Count Enabled

CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK
ESCAPE FROM BUTCHER BAY

800x60031
1024x76828
1280x102419
1600x12009

800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

Fullscreen Enabled
Texture Quality Maximum
Model Shadows Enabled
Anisotropy Maximum
Shadermode Auto
Vertical Sync Disabled

COMMENT - "The DX9 effects used in Chronicles of Riddick make the Geforce PCX 5900 really struggle to offer playable performance with this game and it is only playable upto 1024x768."


CODENAME PANZERS
PHASE TWO

LOW QUALITY

800x60050
1024x76847
1280x102436
1600x120031

MEDIUM QUALITY

800x60032
1024x76832
1280x102425
1600x120020

HIGH QUALITY

800x60028
1024x76825
1280x10249
1600x12008

800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200

COMMENT - "The Geforce PCX 5900 starts off well offering playable performance at all resolutions when using low quality. When using medium quality performance is reduced by 36% and the Geforce PCX 5900 is only playable upto 1024x768 and only marginally playable at 800x600 when using high quality."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

"Tunis" Level
32bit Color Depth
Default Refresh Rate
Vsync Disabled

LOW QUALITY

Anti-Aliasing Disabled
Shadows Disabled
Texture Detail Low
Bilinear

MEDIUM QUALITY

Anti-Aliasing 2x
Shadows Normal
Texture Detail Low
Trilinear

HIGH QUALITY

Anti-Aliasing 4x
Shadows Self
Texture Detail High
Anisotropic
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