Legit Video Card Reviews

HIS Radeon 9600XT Video Card

Manufacturer: HIS
Product: Excalibur 9600XT Turbo Version Platinum Pack
Date: Tue, Jan 13, 2004 - 09:00 AM
Written By: Justin West -
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Performance:

Our Test System:

  • Intel 2.4C Processor (2449 MHz)
  • ABIT AI7 Motherboard
  • 1 Gb Kingston PC3500 RAM (dual channel)
  • Maxtor/Quantum Fireball 40Gb HDD
  • Thermaltake TruePower 360w Power Supply

Video Cards:

  • HIS 9600XT 128mb (Default is 500/650)
  • Chaintech FX5600U 128mb (Default is 400/800)

Testing Procedure:

Our test set up includes Windows XP SP1a, DirectX 9.0b, Cat 3.10 driver for the 9600XT, and nVidia 53.03 driver for the 5600 Ultra. All benchmarks were completed with no other software programs running. For overclocking the video card, we used the RadClocker. The desktop resolution of our system was set to 1024x768x32. A brief description of each test run will be provided at the beginning of each test section.

Each test was run 3 times in a row and the average is shown as the result. We ran the following benchmarks:

  • 3DMark2003 build 340 - NoAA and 4xAA at 10x7 and 12x10 resolutions
  • AquaMark 3 - NoAA and 4xAA at 10x7 resolution
  • UT2003 v2225 - NoAA/NoAF and 4xAA/8xAF at 10x7 and 12x10 resolutions
  • RTCW v1.41 - NoAA/NoAF and 4xAA/8xAF at 10x7 and 12x10 resolutions
  • Halo v1.01 - NoAA/NoAF at 10x7 resolution
  • Call of Duty - NoAA/NoAF and 2xAA/8xAF at 10x7 and 12x10 resolutions

Results:

3dMark2003 build 340:

UPDATE: We have been informed that we can not show you any 3dMark2003 results which include use of the NVidia 53.03 WHQL certified driver. Since we think using the current publicly available drivers for all our products in our tests is most important, we have pulled the results for 3dMark2003 and will not be replacing the results with the use of a "drivers that fulfill requirements of Futuremark Optimization Guidelines". A more detailed explanation can be found HERE.

The graph shows the default scores, and the little chart below the graph shows the results of all the settings we tested.

As you can see, the 9600XT has the performance edge over the 5600Ultra in this test.

AquaMark3:

The graph shows the default scores, and the little chart below the graph shows the results of all the settings we tested.

Again, the 9600XT has a higher performance margin over its competition in this test.

Next are some real gaming benchmarks!

Next Page - Game Tests:


Review Index
Page 1 - Introduction:
Page 2 - The Card:
Page 3 - Performance:
Page 4 - Game Tests:
Page 5 - Image Quality: