GIGABYTE GEFORCE PCX 5900 REVIEW

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

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COMMENT - "None of the video cards provide a playable performance with Serious Sam 2 using medium or high quality settings. When using low quality the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT beats the Gigabyte GeForce PCX 5900 by a fairly impressive 18%."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

Siriusopolis Level

LOW QUALITY

Resolution 1024x768
Texture Size Medium
Texture Quality Compressed
Parallax Mapping Disabled
Reflection Quality Medium

MEDIUM QUALITY

Resolution 1280x1024
Geometry Lod Medium
Texture Quality Optimal
Parallax Mapping Enabled
Reflection Quality High

HIGH QUALITY

Resolution 1600x1200
Geometry Lod High
Texture Quality Optimal
Parallax Mapping Enabled
Reflection Quality High

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COMMENT - "World Racing 2 is another more recent game we have choosen to benchmark and proves to be too much for any of the video cards to run using medium or high quality settings. using low quality settings the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT beats the Gigabyte GeForce PCX 5900 by an impressive 25%."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS

LOW QUALITY

Resolution 1024x768
Texture Resolution Low
View Distance Low
Grass Detail Disabled
Reflections Disabled

MEDIUM QUALITY

Resolution 1280x1024
Texture Resolution Medium
View Distance Medium
Grass Detail Low
Reflections 3rd Frame

HIGH QUALITY

Resolution 1600x1200
Texture Resolution High
View Distance High
Grass Detail Medium
Reflections Each Frame

CONCLUSION - "The Gigabyte GeForce PCX 5900 delivered a very mixed performance, when the software we used was DX9 then the performance was usually poor. However when the software used DX8 or OpenGL the performance of the Gigabyte GeForce PCX 5900 was fairly good for a video card in it's price range. 3dmark is a good indicator for future performance of the Gigabyte GeForce PCX 5900 and using 3dmark 2005 the Gigabyte GeForce PCX 5900 was 58% slower than Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT and with 3dmark 2006 it was a very poor 67% slower. With some ganes software there is an option to use DX8 instead of DX9 and with the Gigabyte GeForce PCX 5900 you should always select DX8!"