Test setup
A comparatively powerful Intel system from the Core 2 era is used as the test platform. Even though the AGP port disappeared quite quickly after the announcement of PCI Express, ASRock in particular still brought suitable motherboards onto the market years later. The ASRock 775Dual-VSTA used in this test accommodates the Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800, the dual-core top model from the Conroe era. 2x 1GB DDR2 RAM and a 256GB SSD are completely sufficient for the tests in Windows XP x86 with Service Pack 3.
Nvidia Forceware 93.71 and ATI Catalyst 7.5 were used as drivers.
Synthetic benchmarks
In addition to the graphics cards already presented, I also tested the Geforce 6600 GT and Radeon 9600 XT, each with 128MB of graphics memory – these are the mid-range top models of the respective generations, which were very popular from a price/performance point of view.
In the two classics 3DMark 2000 and 2001 SE, all test candidates perform quite similarly to each other – the fast Geforce 6800 already runs into the CPU limit here and can only slightly outperform the next fastest graphics cards. Hard times are already dawning here for the cheat packs, as the Radeon 9800 Pro is only at the level of the mid-range card, while the Geforce 6800 falls even further behind – the Geforce 6600 GT already performs around 20% better here.
The more recent benchmarks are significantly more GPU-intensive, which is particularly evident in the Geforce 6600 GT, which can now outperform the Radeon 9800 Pro (3DMark 03) and even beats the larger Geforce 6800 in Aquamark. Whilst the Radeon cheat pack is still just ahead of the mid-range card, the performance of the Geforce cheat pack collapses completely – the original produces almost twice as long benchmark bars here.
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