Half-Life 2: Episode One Performance
At 1920×1200 the X1950 XTX just 4% faster than the X1900 XTX, but some 17% speedier than NVIDIA’s GeForce 7900 GTX. At 2560×1600, the gap widens to 7% between the X1950 and X1900, while our intrepid newcomer out performs the 7900 GTX by 31%.
With an X1950 CrossFire configuration, we can see a 1.5-1.6x improvement in framerates.
Straight off we see poor performance from the 7950 GX2. It should be able to comfortably beat the single-GPU cards, though probably not the X1950 XTX in CrossFire. However, we see it’s only capable of beating X1950 and X1900 by a fractional margin.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
ATI’s cards prove to be comfortably faster than the GeForce 7900 GTX, in the region of 50% quicker, in fact. There still isn’t much of a difference between the X1900 and X1950, however, X1950 6% quicker at both tested resolutions.
CrossFire shows some impressive performance increases at 1.75-1.8x. At 2560×1600 the greatest benefit can be seen, bringing the framerate up into the realm of the playable.
At 2560×1600, the 7950 GX2 seems appropriately fast, compared to the 7900 GTX. However, it only effectively levels with the single-GPU X1950 XTX and gets trounced by it in CrossFire. At 1920×1200 the situation is worse still for the GX2, it losing out to all of our ATI configurations.
There is also a Quake 4 comparision and details on this new impressive video card. GJ ATI.