Gainward 7800GS+ AGP vs Standard 7800GS AGP

[Evildead666]

Gainward 7800GS+ Silent AGP (24-pipe 7900GT) Benchies [vs 16-pipe 7800GS @ 475/1450]
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Test System:
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CPU :............A64 X2 4200+ @ 241x11=2651 MHz
Memory :.......2x Corsair DDR500 @ 252+ MHz (tbd) 3-3-3-8-11
GFX :............Gainward 7800GS+"Silent"AGP (7900GT/24) @ 600/1400
HDD :............WD Raptor 74Gb 10Krpm SATA
MB :..............Gigabyte K8NSC-939 (NF3)
PSU :.............Enermax 570W
SFX :.............SB Audigy 2 ZS


Synthetic Benchmark Suite

(Game Benches to follow at later date)

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3DMark '06
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.................................7800GS+.........7 800GS
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Overall Score :...........5485................3665
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SM2.0 :......................2248................1421

- GT1 :......................18.213 fps........11.499
- GT2 :......................19.248 fps........12.185

HDR/SM3.0 :..............2228................1385

- HDR1 :....................19.958 fps........12.294
- HDR2 :....................24.605 fps........15.402

CPU Score :...............1975................1969

- CPU1 :....................0.637 fps..........0.634
- CPU2 :....................0.979 fps..........0.979


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3D Mark '05
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Overall Score : 9584
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- GT1 : 41.6 fps
- GT2 : 29.2 fps
- GT3 : 46.4 fps

CPU SCore : 6340
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- CPU Test 1 : 2.7 fps
- CPU Test 2 : 6.5 fps

Feature Tests:
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FIll Rate (S) : 5574.0 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (M) : 14112.4 MTexels/s
Pixel Shader : 363.9 fps
Vertex Simple : 74.1 MVertices/s
Vertx Complex : 54.6 MVertices/s


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3D Mark '03
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Overall Score : 18975
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GT1 : 437.2 fps
GT2 : 162.7 fps
GT3 : 109.9 fps
GT4 : 118.5 fps

CPU Score : 1187
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- CPU1 : 133.0 fps
- CPU2 : 21.0 fps

Feature Tests:
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Fill Rate-S : 4838.0 MTexels/s
Fill Rate-M : 13695.2 MTexels/s
Vertex Shader : 55.2 fps
PixelShader2.0: 263.2 fps
Ragtroll : 78.8 fps

Sound Tests:
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NO Sound : 87.7 fps
24 Sounds : 78.3 fps
60 Sounds : 70.8 fps


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AquaMark 3
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Overall Score : 102,286
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GFX : 18,243
CPU : 11,642
Triangles/s : 30.791 MT/s
fps : 102.29 fps


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PCMark '05
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Overall Score : Unavailable (NO WMV encoder)
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CPU : 5299
Memory : 4724
Graphics : 7409


CPU Test Suite:
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File Compression : 10.068 MB/s
File Decompression : 156.472 MB/s
File Encryption : 49.968 MB/s
FIle Decryption : 45.143 MB/s
Image Decompression : 30.262 Mpixels/s
Audio Compression : 2984.622 KB/s
Multi-Threaded Test 1
- File Compression : 10.073 MB/s
- File Encryption : 50.137 MB/s
Multi-Threaded Test 2
- File Decompression : 78.263 MB/s
- File Decryption : 22.576 MB/s
- Audio Decompression : 1216.815 KB/s
- Image Decompression : 15.231 MPixels/s

Memory Test Suite :
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Memory Read 16MB : 6603.231 MB/s
Memory Read 8MB : 6256.068 MB/s
Memory Read 192KB : 10278.654 MB/s
Memory Read 4KB : 32834.230 MB/s

Memory Write 16MB : 6445.050 MB/s
Memory Write 8MB : 6450.229 MB/s
Memory Write 192KB : 8404.072 MB/s
Memory Write 4KB : 25382.662 MB/s

Memory Copy 16MB : 6470.759 MB/s
Memory Copy 8MB : 6303.344 MB/s
Memory Copy 192KB : 6008.860 MB/s
Memory Copy 4KB : 13690.194 MB/s

Memory Latency 16MB : 14.167 MAccess/s
Memory Latency 8MB : 14.824 MAccess/s
Memory Latency 192KB : 164.163 MAccess/s
Memory Latency 4KB : 883.274 MAccess/s

Graphics Test Suite :
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2D:
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Transparent Windows : 1673.181 windows/s
Graphics Mem. 64L : 1876.118 fps
Graphics Mem. 128L : 1175.864 fps
Video Playback : 42.935 fps

3D:
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Fill Rate (Multi) : 13453.236 MTexels/s
Polygon Thoughput : 31.920 MTriangles/s
Pixel Shader : 368.316 fps
Vertex Shader : 51.922 MVertices/s

[Mehen]

Long live AGP!

[Evildead666]

Lets just hope we can fight off DX10 for a little while now

[Evildead666]

I was sooooooooo badly itching to get the new GS+ in the machine, I only went through one bench of 06 with the standard GS...the CPU settings are equal tho...
I had done loads of benches with the GS, but not with the X2 Dual core cpu...
Cant really compare when two major hardware pieces have been changed...

[Mehen]

I think by the time DX10 games become the norm, most cpus coupled with AGP will be a tad slow.

[Evildead666]

And by that time the norm will be 48 or more shaders ...

AGP will be well behind

[Mehen]

Well, I think we should still have a good solid year or more with AGP, I'm still happy I bought this card to tide me over. UT2k7 scares me though.