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Gigabyte GV-N595U GeForce FX5950 Ultra review
Gigabyte GV-N595U GeForce FX5950 Ultra review - PCSTATS
We recently got the chance to take a look at Nvidia's latest graphics processor release, the FX5950 Ultra chip, as thoughtfully provided by Gigabyte in their GV-N595U video card.
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External Mfg. Website: Gigabyte Jan 06 2004   M. Dowler  
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Benchmarks: Code creatures, AquaMark3

CodeCreatures Source: CodeCult

CodeCretures requires a fully compatible DirectX 8 videocard with preferably 128 MB of RAM to store textures. Codecreatures utilizes vertex as well as pixel shaders to run their tests.

CodeCreatures 1024x768
Video Card FPS Ranking
1.

ATi Radeon 9800 Pro

45.9
2.

ATi Radeon 9700 Pro

39.6
3. Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro 24.1
4. MSI FX5900U-VTD256 Ultra 51.1
5. Albatron GeForceFX 5600 Ultra 28.8
6. MSI G4Ti4600-VT2D8X 30.9
7. Gigabyte FX5950 Ultra 53.0
8. Gigabyte FX5950 Ultra (516/1020) 57.1

Our second DirectX9 benchmark, codecreatures uses a custom engine to render a variety of complex nature scenes using DirectX 9 effects. It's an excellent way to completely stress out your videocard of choice.

CodeCreatures 1280x1024
Video Card FPS Ranking
1.

ATi Radeon 9800 Pro

36.5
2.

ATi Radeon 9700 Pro

31.6
3. Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro 18.7
4. MSI FX5900U-VTD256 Ultra 40.6
5. Albatron GeForceFX 5600 Ultra 22.2
6. MSI G4Ti4600-VT2D8X 23.9
7. Gigabyte FX5950 Ultra 42.3
8. Gigabyte FX5950 Ultra (516/1020) 45.5

CodeCreatures 1600x1200
Video Card FPS Ranking
1.

ATi Radeon 9800 Pro

28.2
2.

ATi Radeon 9700 Pro

24.5
3. Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro 14.5
4. MSI FX5900U-VTD256 Ultra 32.2
5. Albatron GeForceFX 5600 Ultra 17.3
6. MSI G4Ti4600-VT2D8X 19.2
7. Gigabyte FX5950 Ultra 33.6
8. Gigabyte FX5950 Ultra (516/1020) 36.3

The GV-N595U delivers a pretty consistent advantage over the Radeon 9800 Pro at all resolutions, but does not manage much of an edge over its Nvidia sibling, the FX5900 card in our test.

AquaMark3 Source: Massive Development

AquaMark3 is a powerful tool to determine reliable information about the gaming performance of a computer system. Because the benchmark extensively utilizes DirectX9, DirectX8 and DirectX7 functionality, it represents the requirements of typical gaming applications in 2003 and 2004.

AquaMark 3 Benchmark Results
Graphics Points Ranking
1.

ATi Radeon 9800 Pro

5670
2.

ATi Radeon 9700 Pro

4860
3. Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro 3045
4. MSI FX5900U-VTD256 Ultra 5436
5. Albatron GeForceFX 5600 Ultra 2520
6. MSI G4Ti4600-VT2D8X 2085
7. Gigabyte FX5950 Ultra 5733
8. Gigabyte FX5950 Ultra (516/1020) 6300

AquaMark 3 Benchmark Results
Overall 3DMarks Ranking
1.

ATi Radeon 9800 Pro

44362
2.

ATi Radeon 9700 Pro

39219
3. Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro 26530
4. MSI FX5900U-VTD256 Ultra 42994
5. Albatron GeForceFX 5600 Ultra 22448
6. MSI G4Ti4600-VT2D8X 18915
7. Gigabyte FX5950 Ultra 44851
8. Gigabyte FX5950 Ultra (516/1020) 48345

Continuing with the DirectX9 benchmarks, Aquamark3 can stress any video card out there right now with its complex effects. In the default benchmark, the Gigabyte FX5950 Ultra came out ahead of the Radeon 9800 Pro by a small margin. Overclocking gave considerable performance improvement in this benchmark, which was a positive thing.

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Contents of Article: Gigabyte GV-N595U
 Pg 1.  Gigabyte GV-N595U GeForce FX5950 Ultra review
 Pg 2.  The Nvidia FX5950 Ultra GPU
 Pg 3.  Alternative cooling solution
 Pg 4.  Overclocking the GV-N595U Benchmarks
 Pg 5.  — Benchmarks: Code creatures, AquaMark3
 Pg 6.  Benchmarks: Gun Metal 2, 3DMark2001SE
 Pg 7.  Benchmarks: AquaMark 2.3, Unreal Tournament 2003
 Pg 8.  Benchmarks: Quake III Arena
 Pg 9.  Antialiasing and Anisotropic filtering Benchmarks
 Pg 10.  Benchmarks: 3DMark2001, Quake III Arena w/AF
 Pg 11.  Benchmarks: 3DMark2001, Quake III Arena w/AA+AF
 Pg 12.  Observations and conclusions

 
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