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

WARHAMMER 40,000
DAWN OF WAR

LOW QUALITY

	85
	84
	64
	50

MEDIUM QUALITY

	83
	81
	62
	49

HIGH QUALITY

	66
	65
	57
	45

800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200

COMMENT - "The GeForce PCX 5900 puts in a very good performance with Warhammer - Dawn of War and the GeForce PCX 5900 is playable at ALL of the resolutions and quality settings."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Full 3D Camera Enabled
Unit Occlusion Enabled
Destroy The Xenos Level

LOW QUALITY
Texture Detail Low
Terrain Detail Low
World Events Low
Shadows Low
Lights Low
FX Detail Low

MEDIUM QUALITY
Texture Detail Medium
Terrain Detail Medium
World Events Medium
Shadows Medium
Lights Medium
FX Detail Medium

HIGH QUALITY
Texture Detail High
Terrain Detail High
World Events High
Shadows High
Lights High
FX Detail High

WORLD RACING 2

LOW

	45
	36
	26
	20

MEDIUM

	33
	26
	20
	15

HIGH QUALITY

	21
	17
	14
	11

800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200

COMMENT - "The GeForce PCX 5900 finds World Racing 2 very hard going and it can only offer playable performance upto 1024x768 using low quality, upto 800x600 using medium quality and the GeForce PCX 5900 is unplayable when using high quality."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

LOW QUALITY
Texture Resolution Low
View Distance Low
Grass Detail Disabled
Reflections Disabled

MEDIUM QUALITY
Texture Resolution Medium
View Distance Medium
Grass Detail Low
Reflections 3rd Frame

HIGH QUALITY
Texture Resolution High
View Distance High
Grass Detail Medium
Reflections Each Frame

XPAND RALLY

LOW QUALITY

	68
	68
	60
	47

MEDIUM QUALITY

	40
	31
	23
	17

HIGH QUALITY

	30
	24
	19
	14

800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200

COMMENT - "The GeForce PCX 5900 delivers good performance and is playable at all resolutions using low quality, upto 1024x768 using medium quality but only at 800x600 using high quality."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Fullscreen Enabled
Anti-Aliasing Disabled
Grand Canyon Level

LOW QUALITY
Bilinear
Material Quality Very Low
View Distance 20%
Water Quality Low
Car Deformations Disabled
Car Details Low
Car Envmap Quality Low
Car Shadows Low

MEDIUM QUALITY
Trilinear
Material Quality Medium
View Distance 80%
Water Quality Medium
Car Deformations Enabled
Car Details High
Car Envmap Quality Medium
Car Shadows High

HIGH QUALITY
Anisotropic
Material Quality Very High
View Distance 100%
Water Quality High
Car Deformations Enabled
Car Details High
Car Envmap Quality High
Car Shadows Very High

CONCLUSION - "The GeForce PCX 5900 put in some good performances most of the time, unfortunately it also had some very poor performances. Most of the games tested performed well using low quality settings or medium quality settings at a lower resolution. The GeForce PCX 5900 has two problems, the first is it's poor DX9 performance which had a serious effect on some of the more recent games like GT Legends and Earth 2160. The second problem is that most of the games when run with high quality were unplayable at resolutions higher than 800x600. In terms of performance the GeForce PCX 5900 is 14% slower than the GeForce 6600 and 9% slower than the ATI Radeon 9600 XT."

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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