Legit Video Card Reviews

HIS Radeon 9800Pro IceQ Video Card

Manufacturer: HIS
Product: Excalibur 9800 Pro IceQ Version Platinum Pack
Date: Fri, Jan 16, 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 9800 Pro IceQ 128mb (Default is 380/675)
  • NVidia FX5900U 256mb (Default is 300/850)

Testing Procedure:

Our test set up includes Windows XP SP1a, DirectX 9.0b, Cat 3.10 driver for the 9800Pro, and nVidia 53.03 driver for the 5900 Ultra. All benchmarks were completed with no other software programs running. For overclocking the video card, we used the Rage3D Tweak. 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.

The NVidia 5900 Ultra stays ahead of the 9800 Pro in 3dMark2003, but I must stress that this is a synthetic test and these performance differences may not represent real-world performance margins.

AquaMark3:

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

In AquaMark3, the HIS 9800 Pro inched ahead of the 5900 Ultra when 4xAA was enabled.

Now let's look at 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: