Prelude to Benchmarks: The details of how two Gigabyte GV-NX85T256H videocards running in SLI were configured for benchmarking; the specific hardware, software drivers, operating system and benchmark versions are indicated below. In the second column are the general specs for the reference platforms this pair of nVIDIA GeForce 8500GT videocards are to be compared against. Please take a moment to look over PCSTATS test system configurations before moving on to the individual benchmark results on the next page.

PCSTATS Test System Configurations

test system reference system processor: amd Athlon64 FX-62 (AM2) Clock Speed: 14 x 200 MHz = 2.8 GHz Motherboards: Asus M2-CROSSHAIR (NF 590 SLI) Videocard: Gigabyte GV-NX85T256H (dual GFX cards in SLI) Asus EAX1900XTX/2DHTV/512M/A Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E-HD Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC nVidia GeForce 8600GTS SLI Foxconn 8600GTS-256 MSI NX8600GT-T2D256E-OC MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E Gigabyte GV-NX76GT256D-RH Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS Albatron 8600GT-256 Gigabyte GV-NX85T256H Memory: Corsair Twin2X2048-6400C3 Hard Drive: 74GB Western Digital Raptor WD740 CDROM: AOpen Combo 52x PowerSupply: PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 510 SLI Heatsink: Athlon64 FX-62 Reference Heatsink Software Setup: Microsoft WindowsXP SP2 Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate nVIDIA Forceware 6.70 nVIDIA Forceware 91.27 ATI Catalyst 7.2 Benchmarks: 3DMark05 3DMark06 FarCry Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Doom 3 Quake 4 FEAR Call of Juarez Lost Planet

Futuremark 3DMark05 1.2.0	Source: FutureMark

3DMark05 is best suited for the latest generation of DirectX9.0 graphics cards. It is the first benchmark to require a DirectX9.0 compliant hardware with support for Pixel Shaders 2.0 or higher! By combining high quality 3D tests, CPU tests, feature tests, image quality tools, and much more, 3DMark05 is a premium benchmark for evaluating the latest generation of gaming hardware.

Futuremark 3DMark05 1.2.0
Overall	Points	Ranking
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT	15656
Diamond Viper Radeon HD 2900XT CrossFire	16233
MSI RX2600XT Diamond	10422
Asus EAX1900XTX 2DHTV/512M/A	12098
Asus EAX1950PRO/HTDP/256M/A	10260
MSI NX8800GTX-T2D768E	15251
Foxconn FV-N88SMCD2-ONOC	14674
MSI NX8800GTS-T2D320E-HD-OC	14703
GeForce 8600GTS SLI	15207
Foxconn 8600GTS-256	11640
MSI NX8600GTS-T2D256E-OC	11676
Albatron 8600GT-256	9701
MSI NX8500GT-TD256E	4457
MSI NX7950GX2-T2D1GE	13781
MSI NX7900GTX-T2D512E	11071
MSI NX7900GS-T2D512E-OC	8630
Gigabyte GV-NX76T256D-RH	5711
Biostar Sigma-Gate GeForce 7600GS	4998
Gigabyte GV-NX85T256H (dual GFX cards in SLI)	11361

The two GeForce 8500GT videocards running in SLI mode score well in 3DMark05; very close to that of a GeForce 8600GTS videocard in fact. Surprisingly, the dual Gigabyte GV-NX85T256H's even beat a GeForce 7900GTX in this synthetic benchmark!