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GIGABYTE GEFORCE PCX 5900 REVIEW
"Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 review featuring Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT and Gainward Geforce4 Ti4600. The Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 is powered by the Nvidia Geforce PCX 5900 GPU. Software used:- 3dmark 2001 SE, 3dmark 2003, 3dmark 2005, 3dmark 2006, PowerVR Fablemark, PowerVR Templemark, PowerVR Villagemark and Rightmark."
 The Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 is powered by Nvidia Geforce PCX 5900 GPU using the new PCI-Express interface. The Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 is a DirectX 9.0 video card with 128MB DDR memory using a fast 256bit memory interface. The Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 has full support for the Gigabyte V-Tuner 2 overclocking applications. The Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 has DVI-I, TV Output and D-Sub connectors, it is also supplied with PowerDVD 5.0 and two world class games.
GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION |
| PROCESSOR |
AMD ATHLON64 3000 |
| VIDEO CARD |
GIGABYTE GEFORCE PCX 5900 |
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GAINWARD GEFORCE4 Ti4600 |
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SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT |
| NVIDIA DRIVER |
NVIDIA FORCEWARE v84.21 |
| ATI DRIVER |
CATALYST v6.5 |
| MOTHERBOARD |
ASROCK 939 DUAL SATA 2 (BIOS v2.10) |
| MEMORY |
2 x 512MB OCZ GOLD XTC PC3200 DDR |
| OPERATING SYSTEM |
WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2 |
| DIRECTX VERSION |
v9.0c |
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3DMARK BENCHMARKS
 | 862 |
 | 2047 |
| 148 |
| 445 |
GIGABYTE PCX 5900 SAPPHIRE 9600 XT GAINWARD GF4 Ti4600 COMMENT - "The results start off fairly close with the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT only 4% faster than the Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 with the Gainward Geforce4 Ti4600 further behind by 10%. 3dmark 2003 is also a close result between the Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 and Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT, this time the difference is 5% in favour of the Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900. The Gainward Geforce4 Ti4600 is a DX8 video card and can't run the high scoring mother nature test. 3dmark 2005 is a DX9 only benchmark which is why there are no results for the Gainward Geforce4 Ti4600. It appears that the Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 is pretty weak when running DX9 software and the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT storms ahead and beats the Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 by 58%. Things don't improve with 3dmark 2006 and the Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 loses to the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT by a massive 67%."
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BENCHMARK SETTINGS
3DMARK 2001 SE
1024x768 Resolution
D3D Hardware T&L
Antialiasing Disabled
Compressed Texture Format
24Bit Z-Buffer Depth
3DMARK 2003
1024x768 Resolution
No Pixel Processing
Optimal Texture Filtering
4x Max Anisotropy
Optimal Vertex Shaders
3DMARK 2005
1024x768 Resolution
No Anti-Aliasing
Optimal Filtering
HLSL VS Target 2_0
HLSL PS Target 2_0
3DMARK 2006
1280x1024 Resolution
Antialiasing Disabled
Optimal Filtering
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POWERVR BENCHMARK
GIGABYTE PCX 5900 SAPPHIRE 9600 XT GAINWARD GF4 Ti4600 |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
1024x768 Resolution
Vsync Disabled
COMMENT - "Things are much more positive with these PowerVR benchmarks and the Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 beats the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT by 32%. Fablemark uses alot of shadows and the Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 has Ultra Shadow technology which improves it's performance with shadow intensive applications. The Templemark result is so close that I am considering it a draw between the Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 and Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT. Villagemark favours the Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 and it beats the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT by 19%."
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RIGHTMARK
| 47 |
| 160 |
GIGABYTE PCX 5900 SAPPHIRE 9600 XT GAINWARD GF4 Ti4600 |
BENCHMARK SETTINGS
1024x768 Resolution
32Bit colour Depth
COMMENT - "The Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT outperforms the Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 by 4% with the PS1.1 benchmark. As shown with 3dmark 2005 and 3dmark 2006 the Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 is poor with DX9 which is why the Gigabyte Geforce PCX 5900 loses to the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT by 71% in the PS2.0 test."
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