The i3DSpeed project is dedicated to testing performance of a large number of graphics cards under the Windows OS.

Traditionally, we offer you performance diagrams of popular graphics cards and inform about the best price/performance deals in the market.

March 2010, Issue #27(116)

Added GeForce GTX 480, 480 SLI test results. Archived GeForce 9800 GTX+ and GeForce GTX 295 SLI test results.

Testbed configuration

• Intel Core i7-920 2667 MHz CPU
• ASUS P6T Deluxe motherboard on the Intel X58 chipset
• 3GB of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM from Corsair
• WD Caviar SE WD1600JD 160GB SATA HDD
• Tagan TG900-BZ 900W PSU
• Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit, DirectX 11
• 30" Dell 3007WFP monitor
• NVIDIA 196.34 beta, 197.27 beta
• ATI CATALYST 10.3

Benchmarks

• Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft) -- DirectX 10.0, shaders 4.0 (HDR), built-in benchmarking utility (the Middle level), maximum settings.
• CRYSIS 1.2 (Crytek/EA) -- Rescue, DirectX 10.0, shaders 4.0, Very High settings, batch file, timedemo available by e-mail request.
• CRYSIS Warhead (Crytek/EA) -- Cargo, DirectX 10.0, shaders 4.0, Very High settings, batch file, timedemo available by e-mail request.
• Colin McRae: DiRT 2 (Codemasters) -- DirectX 10.0/11.0, Ultra High settings, run the benchmark as follows: "dirt2.exe -benchmark example_benchmark.xml".
• Warhammer 40.000: Dawn Of War II (Relic Entertainment/THQ) -- DirectX 10.0, Super High settings, run the benchmark from the in-game menu.
• Just Cause 2 (Avalanche Studios/Eidos Interactive) -- DirectX 11.0, Super High settings, run the benchmark from the in-game menu.

• Tropics Benchmark (Unigine) -- DirectX 10.0, High settings.
• Heaven Benchmark (Unigine) -- DirectX 10.0, High settings.
• Heaven Benchmark (Unigine) -- DirectX 11.0, High settings.
• 3DMark Vantage 1.01 (FutureMark) -- DirectX 10.0, shaders 4.0, multitexturing, Extreme settings.
• RightMark3D (iXBT.com) -- DirectX, a synthetic benchmark, Shaders 2.0/2.0b/3.0.

We'd like to thank Unigine for helping us set up their benchmarks.

Graphics cards

In the brackets: ROP/TMU clock rate, shader unit clock rate, effective memory clock rate.

1. ATI RADEON HD 4670 512MB GDDR3 1.0ns (750/750/2000 MHz)
2. ATI RADEON HD 5670 512MB GDDR5 (775/775/4000 MHz)
3. ATI RADEON HD 4850 1024MB GDDR3 1.0ns (625/625/2000 MHz)
4. ATI RADEON HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 (750/750/3600 MHz)
5. ATI RADEON HD 5750 1024MB GDDR5 (700/700/4600 MHz)
6. ATI RADEON HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5 (850/850/4800 MHz)
7. ATI RADEON HD 4890 1024MB GDDR5 (850/850/3900 MHz)
8. ATI RADEON HD 5850 1024MB GDDR5 (725/725/4000 MHz)
9. ATI RADEON HD 5870 1024MB GDDR5 (850/850/4800 MHz)
10. ATI RADEON HD 5970 2x1024MB GDDR5 (725/725/4000 MHz)
11. ATI RADEON HD 5870 CrossFire 2x1024MB GDDR5 (2x850/850/4800 MHz)
12. ATI RADEON HD 5970 CrossFire 2x2x1024MB GDDR5 (725/725/4000 MHz)
13. NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 1024MB GDDR3 1.2ns (625/1380/1600 MHz)
14. NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 1024MB GDDR5 (585/1418/3780 MHz)
15. NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 512MB GDDR3 1.0ns (650/1625/1800 MHz)
16. NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512MB GDDR3 1.0ns (600/1512/1800 MHz)
17. NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 1024MB GDDR3 0.8ns (756/1890/2300 MHz)
18. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 (216sp) 896MB GDDR3 0.8ns (575/1240/2000 MHz)
19. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 896MB GDDR3 0.8ns (633/1400/2260 MHz)
20. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 1024MB GDDR3 0.8ns (650/1475/2500 MHz)
21. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 2x896MB GDDR3 0.8ns (575/1240/2000 MHz)
22. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 SLI 2x1024MB GDDR3 0.8ns (2x650/1475/2500 MHz)
23. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 1536MB GDDR5 (700/1400/3700 MHz)
24. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 SLI 2x1536MB GDDR5 (2x700/1400/3700 MHz)

Archived graphics cards

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