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February 2003 3Digest -
SIS Xabre600 64MB







This chip is presented by SIS Xabre 600 64MB DDR, AGP reference card.




Features:

  • SIS Xabre600 chip, 315MHz clock rate, 256-bit engine;
  • 64MB DDR SDRAM in 8 Hynix 2.8ns chips, 315 (630) MHz clock;
  • Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode is 1260 megapixels/sec and 2520 megatexels/sec.
  • DirectX 8.1.

By the end of the month the product belongs to the $86-106 range; supports DirectX 8.1; closest rivals: GeForce4 MX440-8x, RADEON 9000Pro.

On the 10th of February 2003 the latest drivers from SIS are 3.10.00 and 3.10.51 for WindowsXP.

Overclocks to 350/345(690) MHz (GPU/memory)

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 600































































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 600


















NA




NA

NA






















Games list:

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





























SIS Xabre 600

































Game and test list:

Card incorrectly works in Delta Force: Black Hawk Down:




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


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