ASUS Extreme Radeon X600 Pro Review

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ASUS Extreme Radeon X600 Pro Review

D3D RightMark v1.0.5.0 beta 4

D3D Rightmark is another good DirectX benchmark.

Geometry Processing Speed

			Dell X300		Asus X600		Asus X600
			Windows XP		Windows XP		Windows XP x64
	Geometry level	Lighting profile	FPS	PPS	FPS	PPS	FPS	PPS
Ambient:	High	Ambient	67.98	87561552	96.06	123726960	99.04	127565224
Diffuse + Specular (3 point lights):	High	Diffuse + specular (3 point lights)	17.29	22273080	15.86	20432310	17.88	23024988

Pixel Shading

		Dell X300		Asus X600		Asus X600
		Windows XP		Windows XP		Windows XP x64
	Shading profile	FPS	PPS	FPS	PPS	FPS	PPS
Psychedelic:	Procedural: Psychedelic PS1.1 (HLSL)	260.49	83189008	443.16	141526528.00	447.18	142812976.00
Lighting (Phong):	Lighting (Phong): 3 point light PS2.0 (HLSL)	90.86	29015714	124.85	39872004.00	125.40	40047572.00

Point Sprites

The Windows XP x64 crowns the benchmarks followed by a close second Windows XP and then come the X300 benches.

Strangely in the Diffuse + Specular (3 point lights) test the X300 scores better then the X600 under Windows XP.

Realtech OpenGL Extensions Viewer 2.18 (build 195)

This tool allows you to see what OpenGL specifications your video card supports.

It also has benchmarks to test the supported specifications and it comes in native x64 as well as 32-bits versions.

As you can see the X600 outruns the X300 with great ease.

Now for the different OS’, let’s see if there’s a difference.

The performance takes a hit when it runs in native x64 mode, but there’s not much difference between 32-bits modes of both Windows OS’.

Doom 3 v1.3

Here’s what Doom 3 makes of it: (All figures are in FPS)

Clearly the winner over the X300, both Windows versions are almost equal to each other.

Unreal Tournament 2004 (patched v3355)

Epic’s fast multiplayer first person 3D shooter game. (All figures are in FPS)

Slight increases here and there for the X600 in x64 Windows and overall winner over the X300.

Far Cry 1.32

This is a fast paced shooter released by Ubisoft; with the right patches applied the game also has a native x64 executable.

Let’s look how this performs. (All figures are in FPS)

The X600 performs almost equal in all the Windows environments and outperforms the X300 yet again.