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 December the product belongs to the $90-110 range; supports DirectX 8.1; closest rivals: GeForce4 MX440-8x, RADEON 9000Pro.

On the 10th of December 2002 the latest drivers version from SIS is 3.07 (WHQL).

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

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 600		-
NVIDIA GeForce3

Games / Cards	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
SIS Xabre 600
NVIDIA GeForce3

Games / Cards	25	26	27	28	29	30
SIS Xabre 600
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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