Overclocker Cafe - Inno3D GeForce 7600 GST Review

Performance

The Inno3D card is a cross of items here. Since it is aspiring to be a midrange card, we choose to compare it as such. Selecting a HIS Radeon X1800 GTO and a generation old Inno3D GeForce 6600 GT we ran the three cards through a battery of real world game play benchmarks.

Testing was done with frame rates during actual gameplay being recorded by the FRAPS program and graphed in a three minute segment of play from Battlefield 2, Need For Speed: Most Wanted, Half Life 2 and Quake 4. Within each game, we have saved spots where we can record gameplay from a set location, making the course of action easier to duplicate between test products. Specific settings will differ somewhat between each game but all will be at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768.

Test Bed

Intel 3.6GHz LGA775 Processor

Chaintech Zenith VE V915P mainboard

Thermaltake Symphony H2O Tower Cooler

(2) 1024 MB DIMM of OCZ PC3200 Gold GX XTC

Maxtor DiamondMax 9 200GB SATA HDD

Lite-On Dual Layer 16x DVD Burner

Kingwin Absolute Power 600w PSU

Windows XP Pro SP2

Results

Battlefield 2 is not a new game but remains fresh with the expansion and add on packs EA Games continues to release. Using the Zetar Wetlands map, we recorded a three minute segment of a play with all settings set to ‘high’ at 4x FSAA with a screen resolution of 1024 x 768. I don't know what it was I was expecting but this wasn't it. It was like an underdog boxer taking command of a fight or a 50:1 shot horse in a race, moving ahead. Inno3D's overclocked GS core and GT memory based card can CERTAINLY hold its own. In this case, it is against a card representing the high side of the midrange class. Wow!

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Pg 1 - Introduction
Pg 2 - The Card
Pg 3 - Performance Benchmarks
Pg 4 - Performance Benchmarks
Pg 5 - Image Quality / Overclocking / Conclusion