System Setup and Notes
Hardware
| System | NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT Test System | |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93GHz, 4MiB L2 cache, LGA775) | |
| Motherboard | Intel D975XBX Bad Axe rev. 304 | |
| Memory | 2GiB (2 x 1024) Corsair PC8500 | |
| Memory timings and speed | 4-4-4-12 2T @ 800MHz (PC6400) | |
| Graphics card(s) | NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT (450/660) NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX (650/800) ATI Radeon X1900 XT (625/725) |
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| Disk drive(s) | Maxtor 300GB SATA (6V300FO) | |
| Mainboard software | Intel Inf Update 8.0.0.1009 | |
| Graphics driver | NVIDIA ForceWare 91.47 WHQL ATI CATALYST 6.8 |
Operating System | Windows XP Professional, w/ SP2, 32-bit |
Software
We used Far Cry, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and Quake 4 for evaluating performance, as usual.Notes
NVIDIA released a 'new' 91.47 release to press for testing 7950 GT, after the release of the same driver for 7900 GS a week or so ago. However, bar a change of the .inf (and corresponding catalogue file) to include the right device ID and whatnot, everything's identical between the releases for x86 and x64. Here's proof (from the 32-bit releases). The modes.txt and NvApps.xml differences are purely cosmetic.
We ran each benchmark a trio of times, discarding the outer results and reporting the middle one. If any of the three results looked erroneous, we threw all three away until we could collect three within a margin of statistical error. Any major attempts needed to get three reliable results we let you know about, of course. Apart from that, things are as noted on the graphs and in the graph commentary. Want to know more? Hit up the HEXUS.community.
Rivatuner confirms clocks and GPU configuration.
