Performance

Testing will be a little different than usual today.  Instead of a lone comparison unit, today we have three.  The Inno3D 8800 GT iChill will be matched up against its hotter sibling, the Inno3D 8800 GT OC Edition (identical card except for the cooler), a reference design 8800 GT and from the ATi side of the fence, a HIS Radeon HD3850 XTurbo.

Testing will be done by real world game play with frame rates recorded by the FRAPS program.  Results are graphed in three minute segments from three game titles, Need for Speed: Pro Street, Crysis and STALKER.  Inside each of these games, we have saved spots where we can record game play from a set location making the course of action easier to duplicate between test products.  Screen resolution will be 1600 x 1200 pixels in each run with all other settings set to max with the exception of FSAA.  Full screen anti aliasing will be set to 0x in our testing.  Other setting changes will be noted during each benchmark.

Things will round out by temperature and overclocking measures for the Inno3D 8800 GT Accelero X1 equipped card to see just how effective this cooler is.  To give you a point of reference, we also have our Inno3D 8800 GT OC Edition card measured in stock trim and with a Tt DuOrb strapped on.  Let's get started.

Results

Putting the graphics settings to high in 1600 resolution, we set out in this quazi-sequel to Far Cry.  You can see what a resource hog Crysis can be from the graph below.  This is no game for that dated AGP video card in your mother's computer.  Game play was reasonably smooth but we did have a few shudders from time to time.

The increases of the overclocked Inno3D cards over the reference clocks don't show up on a raw chart.  But in game play, you can feel the difference.  Action and play is just a bit smoother with far fewer shudders.  ATi obviously doesn't have a power player just yet for Crysis.

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