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Albatron
Trinity PCX5750:
While not the fastest kid on the block, the PCX5750 offers
adequate mainstream performance at a low price. |
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System Setup
| CPU: |
Intel Pentium IV 520 2.8E
(14*200MHz)
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| Motherboard: |
Albatron 915G Pro
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| Memory: |
2*512MB
Corsair TwinX4000 |
| Hard
Drives: |
80GB WD Caviar SE
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| Video
Card: |
Albatron
PCX5750 FX5750 - 425/500MHz - 508/675MHz |
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Intel
915G IGP - 325(Est.)/400MHz |
| Operating
System: |
Windows
XP Professional Service Pack 2 w/Direct X 9.0c |
| Drivers: |
PCX5750
- 61.77 |
Intel
IGP - 6.14.10.3847 |
| Cooler: |
Stock
Intel Heatsink |
| Case: |
CoolerGuys
Windtunnel IV |
| Power
Supply: |
RaidMax
400Watt Power Supply |
| Software: |
Fraps
2 |
Bench'em
All 2.60 beta |
| Direct
X Benchmarks: |
Unreal
Tournament 2004 (Self made Demo) |
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Far
Cry |
Splinter
Cell (Beyond 3D Demo) |
| OpenGL
Benchmarks: |
Doom
3 timedemo |
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Serious
Sam SE Demo (Little Trouble) |
Spec
Viewperf 8.0 |
All tests with the cards were
done with AA and ansiotropic filtering disabled. Resolutions
of 1024*768 and 1600*1200 were used for tests except for the
Spec test, which is run with the 2D resolution of 1600*1200.
Bench'em All was used to test all the games, with Serious Sam
SE being the only game that wasn't working, as I only used the
demo version.
As for the specific demos used, UT2004 was
a demo that I recorded of the Antalus level with a limit of about
15 frags. The Far Cry demo is the default demo that Bench'em
All uses. Splinter Cell used the Beyond 3D demo of the Caspian
Oil Refinery. Doom 3 was the default timedemo that was included
with the full game. With the Serious Sam SE demo we used
the Little Trouble demo. So lets see how the PCX5750 does,
both at stock clock speeds and when overclocked, as well as the
integrated video card of the 915G chipset.
OpenGL Tests
First we will look at the only synthetic test
of our group, that of the professional program Spec Viewperf 8.0.
This will give us an idea as to whether the video card can handle
the occasional professional application. So lets see what
the results are for this test.
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Test
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Intel 915G IGP |
Albatron PCX 5750 |
Albatron PCX5750 OC'ed |
| UGS-04 |
0 |
4.341 |
5.004 |
| SW-01 |
1.773 |
8.036 |
8.457 |
| Proe-03 |
2.77 |
9.113 |
9.519 |
| Maya-01 |
4.369 |
14.74 |
15.08 |
| Light-07 |
4.275 |
7.129 |
7.213 |
| Ensight-01 |
1.835 |
3.403 |
3.53 |
| Catia-01 |
0 |
7.572 |
7.87 |
| 3DSMax-03 |
3.848 |
10.11 |
10.55 |
We can see right off from the
start that the integrated video of the Intel 915G motherboard
can't even run two of the tests here. Otherwise the Albatron
card is between 2 times as fast and 4 times faster than the
IGP of the Intel motherboard. Overclocking doesn't add
much though the UGS-04 test was 15% faster when overclocked.
Now lets look at the Serious
Sam SE results. We know that Serioius Sam is a very graphically
beautiful, with very high quality textures also making appearences.
So lets first look at 1024*768 at high quality settings.
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Intel 915G IGP |
Albatron PCX5750 |
Albatron PCX5750 Overclocked |
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Average Frame Rate:
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34.07 |
109.21 |
135.27 |
We see that even at this
basic resolution that the Intel video can only reach just
over 30fps. Though this can be considered playable as
the lowest frame rate is over 20fps. The Albatron PCX5750
card provides over 100fps average at stock clock speeds, with
the minimum frame rate being at the very lowest 80fps.
When overclocked the improvement is about 23% which is closer
to a core clock dependency with a little bit of memory bandwidth
limitation going by the improvement in frame rate. What
about enabling AA and ansiotropic filtering, how does it affect
the frame rate.
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Albatron PCX5750 |
Albatron PCX5750 Overclocked |
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Average Frame Rate
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50.94 |
66.44 |
We didn't test the IGP
with AA at all, as the frame rate in even this 'basic' game
is very low. Looking at the two speeds of the Albatron
we see that at standard speeds the card doesn't make the
60fps mark that most people want. However the lowest
frame rate is only 38fps which means that the game should
still be pretty playable, even in the worst case.
Overclocking the card moves it to well over the 60fps mark
improving by 30% compared to stock speeds. This means
that there is more of a memory bandwidth limitation at stock
speeds than that of a core speed limitation. Lets
move to the other resolution test to see the results.
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Intel 915G IGP |
Albatron PCX5750 |
Albatron PCX5750 Overclocked |
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Average Frame Rate
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18.97 |
47.77 |
62.26 |
Here we see a similar result
as our previous test. The Albatron card at stock speeds
is able to do around the 50fps mark on average and a 30+fps
minimum frame rate. We see taht the average frame rate
is less than half of what it is at 1024*768 with the same
settings, showing a limitation of the bandwidth of the card.
The overclocked test gives us the same 30% improvement as
the AA test previously showed. The lowest frame rate
for the overclocked version was still over 40fps and the average
just made it over the 60fps mark, making this card playable
at this resolution without a problem. The IGP of the
motherboard provides a basic 19fps average for this test,
as the game wasn't really playable at this resolution, though
better than some integrated solutions we've seen before.
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Albatron PCX5750 |
Albatron PCX5750 Overclocked |
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Average Frame Rate
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21.24 |
29.43 |
Again just like at 1024*768
there is no results for the IGP of the 915G board. Neither
tested setup resulted in a playable frame rate, as both were
under the 30fps mark as an average. The stock clocked
version has a minimum frame rate of 14fps which is rather
poor, much like the IGP in the previous results. Overclocking
the card does produce some very noticable results as there
is a 38% improvement in frame rate, though as is seen it doesn't
mean very much as the average is still under 30fps.
The one nice thing is that the minimum frame rate is much
closer to the average, at just over 20fps its helping the
game almost seem playable. But this is only a basic
OpenGL based game, what happens when we move to the brand
new game Doom 3, how does this card fair in this test?
NEXT
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