3DMark05

Futuremark 3DMark05

Notes

We ran this one in order to get our bearings on comparing the 512MB and 256MB Ultra cards with and without SLI technology. The results are taken at 1600x1200 to tax the graphics subsystem as much as possible. And interestingly enough, the slight loss of memory bandwidth actually puts the 512MB cards a tad behind the 256MB set. While we hesitate to make comparisons between ATI and NVIDIA products in a purely synthetic setting, it is surprising how much lower the 512MB X800 XL scores versus ATI’s X850 XT Platinum Edition product.