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- Date:
- Tuesday , January 18, 2005
- Author:
- Brent Justice
- Editor:
- Sean Quinn
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ABIT RX600Pro Guru Review
ABIT is introducing some new video card technology known as vGuru. We are going to explore the ABIT RX600Pro and compare it in gaming against a GeForce 6600.
DOOM 3
(OpenGL)
We are using the full retail version of DOOM 3 and leaving each video card's driver control panel to “Application Preference” for AA and AF. We set the DOOM 3 in-game quality setting and resolution that played the best on each card. We utilized the in-game DOOM 3 AA setting to change AA level.
For our manual run-through we chose the “Enpro” level and used FRAPS to capture the framerate every second and started our run-through from the beginning to halfway through the mission. We played the game in a normal fashion which means each run-through on each card will be a little different, but still represents the same course through the level.
The ABIT RX600Pro Guru isn’t the fastest card on the block for playing DOOM 3. We found that we had to set the quality in the game to Medium and that 640x480 resolution was the highest resolution we found playable. We did try lowering to Low Quality at 800x600, but that was unplayable. It seems that resolution changes affect performance the most on the ABIT RX600Pro Guru. High Quality was not playable, as it enables 8XAF. Therefore 640x480 in Medium Quality was running with No AA and No AF. Setting the video card to XTurbo mode did not let us raise the quality setting or resolution, all it offered was slightly better performance at these settings, but not enough to increase image quality.
The NVIDIA GeForce 6600 did much better here allowing us to play DOOM 3 in High Quality mode at 1024x768 NoAA/8XAF.
Image Quality:
It is quite clear that High Quality mode with 8XAF is much better than Medium Quality mode with no AF in DOOM 3. Also, being able to run at 1024x768 on the GeForce 6600 versus 640x480 really makes a big difference in-game.