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February 2003 3Digest -
SIS Xabre400 128MB







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 February 2003 the latest drivers from SIS are 3.10.00 and 3.10.51 for WindowsXP.

By the end of the month the product belongs to the $65-85 range; closest rival: GeForce4 MX440.

Performance readouts are in the summary diagrams.

You can compare the screenshots below with reference images obtained on ATI RADEON 9500. 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
ATI RADEON 9500



























































SIS Xabre




















































NA










Games 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
  • 10. Venom
  • 11. Unreal Tournament 2003 DEMO
  • 12. DOOM 3 v0.02

Games / Cards 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
ATI RADEON 9500

















































SIS Xabre


















NA




NA

NA






















Games list:

Games / Cards 25 26 27 28 29 30
ATI RADEON 9500





























SIS Xabre

































Game and test list:

Card incorrectly works in Unreal 2:


Card incorrectly works in Delta Force: Black Hawk Down:




Andrey Vorobiev (Anvakams@ixbt.com)
Alexander Kondakov (kondalex@ixbt.com)


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