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

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

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

COMANCHE 4

	59
	57
	53
	50

800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Fullscreen Enabled
32Bit Colour Depth
Anti-Aliasing Disabled
Terrain Detail High
Object Detail High
Texture Quality High
Water Quality High
Shadows High
Particle Density High

COMMENT - "The GeForce PCX 5900 delivers great performance with Comanche4 and it is very playable at all of the resolutions tested."

DELTA FORCE EXTREME

LOW QUALITY

	48
	39
	30
	23

MEDIUM QUALITY

	42
	34
	26
	20

HIGH QUALITY

	27
	19
	15
	5

800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200

COMMENT - "The GeForce PCX 5900 delivers average performance with Delta Force Extreme and is playable upto 1280x1024 using low quality settings. Medium quality doesn't seem to effect the performance of the GeForce PCX 5900 too much and it offers playable performance upto 1024x768, however using high quality the GeForce PCX 5900 performance is reduced to an unplayable level."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Peru Campaign
Mission Flood

LOW QUALITY
Terrain Polygon Low
Terrain Texture Normal
Object Polygon Detail Low
Object Texture Detail Normal
Water Quality Low
Shadows Low
Antialiasing Disabled
Bilinear

MEDIUM QUALITY
Terrain Polygon Normal
Terrain Texture High
Object Polygon Detail Normal
Object Texture Detail High
Water Quality Normal
Shadows Normal
Antialiasing Disabled
Trilinear

HIGH QUALITY
Terrain Polygon High
Terrain Texture Highest
Object Polygon Detail High
Object Texture Detail Highest
Water Quality High
Shadows High
Antialiasing 4x
Anisotropic

EARTH 2160

	33
	15
	7

LOW QUALITY MEDIUM QUALITY HIGH QUALITY

COMMENT - "The GeForce PCX 5900 offers playable performance only at low quality, when using medium quality performance is reduced by a huge 55% and high quality reduced the performance by 54%."

FAR CRY

LOW QUALITY

	139
	132
	130
	96

MEDIUM QUALITY

	75
	58
	42
	28

HIGH QUALITY

	57
	42
	29
	19

800x600 1024X768 1280x1024 1600x1200

COMMENT - "The GeForce PCX 5900 starts off very strongly with Far Cry and offers very playable performance using low quality settings. Although medium quality does reduce the performance of the GeForce PCX 5900 by 24% the GeForce PCX 5900 is still playable upto 1280x1024. High quality reduces the performance of the GeForce PCX 5900 and it is only playable upto 1024x768."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

LOW QUALITY
Texture Quality Low
Bilinear
Anisotropic Filtering 1
Particle Count Low
Special Effects Low
Enviroment Quality Low
Shadow Quality Low
Water Quality Low
Lighting Quality Low

MEDIUM QUALITY
Texture Quality Medium
Trilinear
Anisotropic Filtering 2
Particle Count Medium
Special Effects Medium
Enviroment Quality Medium
Shadow Quality Medium
Water Quality Medium
Lighting Quality Medium

HIGH QUALITY
Texture Quality High
Trilinear
Anisotropic Filtering 4
Particle Count High
Special Effects High
Enviroment Quality High
Shadow Quality High
Water Quality High
Lighting Quality High

GEFORCE PCX 5900 REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - GEFORCE PCX 5900 INTRODUCTION

PAGE 2 - DELTA FORCE EXTREME, EARTH 2160 AND FAR CRY

PAGE 3 - KING KONG, LEGO STAR WARS AND QUAKE 4

PAGE 4 - SCRAPLAND, SERIOUS SAM 2 AND SCOOTER WARZ

PAGE 5 - TRACKMANIA SUNRISE AND TRIBES VENGEANCE

PAGE 6 - DAWN OF WAR, WORLD RACING AND XPAND RALLY

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