System setup and notes
We used the same nForce 680i-based platform for testing the eVGA e-GeForce 8800 Ultra Superclocked 768MB as we did for testing the original Ultra and HD 2900 XT, running the ForceWare 158.19 driver under 32-bit Windows XP Professional with SP2. Here are the details.
Hardware
| Graphics Cards | eVGA e-GeForce 8800 Ultra Superclocked 768MB | NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MiB | NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MiB | ASUS EN8800GTS/HTDP/640M 640MiB | AMD Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MiB |
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| GPU/Shader/Memory clocks | 655/1660/2250 | 612/1512/2160 | 575/1350/1800 | 513/1188/1586 | 743/743/1656 |
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93GHz, 4MiB L2 cache, LGA775) | ||||
| Motherboard | EVGA nForce 680i SLI | ASUS P5W-DH Deluxe (975X+ICH7R) | |||
| Memory | 2GiB (2x 1024) Corsair PC8500 EPP | 2GiB (2x 1024) Patriot XLBK | |||
| Memory timings and speed | 4-4-4-12 2T @ 800MHz (PC6400) | ||||
| PSU | FSP Epsilon 600W | Enermax Galaxy DXX 850W | |||
| Monitor | Dell 3007WFP - 2560x1600 | ||||
| Disk drive(s) | Seagate 160GB SATAII (ST3160812AS) | ||||
| Mainboard software | NVIDIA platform driver 9.53 | Intel Inf 8.0.1.1002 | |||
| Graphics driver | ForceWare 158.19 | 8.37.4-070419a-046506E-ATI (Cat 7.5 BETA) | |||
| Operating System | Windows XP Professional, w/ SP2, 32-bit | ||||
Software
| 3D Benchmarks | Far Cry v1.33 Quake 4 v1.30 Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory v1.05 |
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Benchmarks were run at 2560x1600 to keep things simple and brief - for you and us. Results were averaged over three runs and we did all the usual stuff to make sure our data is representative and we get things right.
