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Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 1GB Videocard Review
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 1GB Videocard Review - PCSTATS
The ATI Radeon HD 2900XT VPU core runs at 743 MHz while the 1GB of GDDR4 memory hums along at a very sweet 2 GHz! In pairs, the Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT is ATI Crossfire compatible on supporting motherboards.
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External Mfg. Website: Diamond Aug 22 2007   C. Sun  
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Videocard Benchmarks: 3DMark05, 3DMark06

Futuremark 3DMark05 1.2.0 Source: FutureMark

3DMark05 is best suited for the latest generation of DirectX9.0 graphics cards. It is the first benchmark to require a DirectX9.0 compliant hardware with support for Pixel Shaders 2.0 or higher! By combining high quality 3D tests, CPU tests, feature tests, image quality tools, and much more, 3DMark05 is a premium benchmark for evaluating the latest generation of gaming hardware.

PCSTATS Benchmark ReportFuturemark 3DMark05 1.2.0
Overall Points Ranking
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A 12098
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A 10260
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E 15251
Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC 14674
MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC 14703
GeForce 8600GTS SLI 15207
Foxconn 8600GTS-256 11640
MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC 11676
Albatron 8600GT-256 9701
MSI NX8500GT-TD256E 4457
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE 13781
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E 11071
MSI NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC 8630
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH 5711
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS 4998
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 15656
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT (825/1135) 15942
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire 16233
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire (812/1123) 16862

The Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT comes in first place. It beat the Geforce 8800GTX MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E videocard by about 400 points. Both videocards installed and overclocked, with CrossFire enabled, simply boosts the already high score into the region of 16862 3DMarks!. When the Diamond Viper HD 2900XT videocards are overclocked, we see a good 300-400 point boost.

FutureMark 3DMark06 1.0.2 Source: FutureMark

3DMark06 is the worldwide standard in advanced 3D game performance benchmarking. A fundamental tool for every company in the PC industry as well as PC users and gamers, 3DMark06 uses advanced real-time 3D game workloads to measure PC performance using a suite of DirectX 9 3D graphics tests, CPU tests, and 3D feature tests. 3DMark06 tests include all new HDR/SM3.0 graphics tests, SM2.0 graphics tests, AI and physics driven single and multiple cores or processor CPU tests and a collection of comprehensive feature tests to reliably measure next generation gaming performance today.

PCSTATS Benchmark ReportFuturemark 3DMark06 1.0.2
Overall: Points Ranking
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A 6060
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A 4904
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E 9785
Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC 8799
MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC 8777
GeForce 8600GTS SLI 8827
Foxconn 8600GTS-256 5556
MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC 5518
Albatron 8600GT-256 4648
MSI NX8500GT-TD256E 2240
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE 8057
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E 6173
MSI NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC 4945
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH 3268
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS 2654
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 9579
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT (825/1135) 10412
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire 11252
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire (812/1123) 12062
SM2.0 Points Ranking
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A 2342
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A 1949
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E 4551
Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC 4010
MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC 3958
GeForce 8600GTS SLI 4157
Foxconn 8600GTS-256 2376
MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC 2343
Albatron 8600GT-256 1949
MSI NX8500GT-TD256E 866
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE 3619
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E 2579
MSI NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC 1974
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH 1286
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS 1007
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 4163
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT (825/1135) 4326
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire 4793
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire (812/1123) 5136
HDR/SM3.0 Points Ranking
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A 2614
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A 2011
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E 4688
Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC 3976
MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC 4006
GeForce 8600GTS SLI 3769
Foxconn 8600GTS-256 2083
MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC 2085
Albatron 8600GT-256 1675
MSI NX8500GT-TD256E 757
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE 3466
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E 2494
MSI NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC 1935
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH 1163
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS 1097
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 4726
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT (825/1135) 5344
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire 6382
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire (812/1123) 6933

In 3DMark06 the Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT videocard again competes very closely to that of the GeForce 8800GTX videocard. Overclocking boosts SM2.0, SM3.0 and HDR scores nicely, as does enabling CrossFire.

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Contents of Article: Diamond Radeon HD 2900XT 1GB
 Pg 1.  Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT 1GB Videocard Review
 Pg 2.  Massive Heatsink and Quiet Cooling System?
 Pg 3.  ATI/AMD CrossFire Redone
 Pg 4.  The AMD Radeon HD 2900XT Core
 Pg 5.  Videocard Power Consumption Measurements
 Pg 6.  High Definition Playback Tests with AVIVO
 Pg 7.  Overclocking the Radeon HD 2900XT Videocard
 Pg 8.  — Videocard Benchmarks: 3DMark05, 3DMark06
 Pg 9.  Videocard Benchmarks: FarCry
 Pg 10.  Videocard Benchmarks: Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
 Pg 11.  Videocard Benchmarks: Doom 3
 Pg 12.  Videocard Benchmarks: Quake 4
 Pg 13.  Videocard Benchmarks: FEAR
 Pg 14.  DX10 Videocard Benchmarks: Call of Juarez, Lost Planet
 Pg 15.  PCSTATS Maximum Videocard Overclocking Chart & Conclusions
 Pg 16.  Radeon HD 2900XT To Give nVidia a Real Challenge

 
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