This chip is presented by Joytech Apollo Blade Monster Xabre400 128MB DDR, AGP card.

Features:

• SIS Xabre400 chip, 250 MHz clock rate, 256-bit engine;
• 128MB DDR SDRAM in 8 Samsung 4ns chips, 250 (500) MHz clock rate;
• Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode is 1000 megapixels/sec and 2000 megatexels/sec.
• Hardware TCL.

You can get more details about SIS Xabre400 from our review and from the review of this specific card.

Wasn't overclocked.

On the 10th of January 2003 the latest drivers version from SIS is 3.07 (WHQL).

By the end of the month the product belongs to the $70-90 range; closest rival: GeForce4 MX440.

Performance readouts are in the summary diagrams.

You can compare the screenshots with reference (NVIDIA GeForce3) below. We've said much about Xabre 3D graphics quality, so we are not to pause on it again. The only comment - about DOOM 3 alpha. High performance is shown because there's just no light in the game, did anyone turn it off? :-))

Games / Cards	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
SIS Xabre		-
NVIDIA GeForce3

Games / Cards	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
SIS Xabre
NVIDIA GeForce3

Games / Cards	25	26	27	28	29	30
SIS Xabre
NVIDIA GeForce3

Game list:

• 1. Return to Castle Wolfenstein
• 2. Unreal2 (alpha version)
• 3. Comanche4
• 4. Jedi Knight II Outcast
• 5. Morrowind
• 6. Colin McRAE Rally2
• 7. Red Faction
• 8. Rally Trophy
• 9. Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
• 10. Venom
• 11. Unreal Tournament 2003 DEMO
• 12. DOOM 3 v0.02
• 13. Blade of Darkness
• 14. Neverwinter Nights
• 15. 3DMark2001: Game1
• 16. 3DMark2001: Game2
• 17. 3DMark2001: Game3
• 18. 3DMark2001: Game4
• 19. 3DMark2001: Dot3
• 20. 3DMark2001: EMBM
• 21. 3DMark2001: Vertex Shaders
• 22. 3DMark2001: Pixel Shaders
• 23. Warcraft III
• 24. Soldier of Fortune II
• 25. Command and Conquer: Renegade
• 26. No One Lives Forever Demo
• 27. AquaNox
• 28. Serious Sam: The Second Encounter
• 29. IL2: Shturmovik
• 30. MoHAA

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