XFX 7900 GTX XXX Edition Video Card Review

3DMark 2006

Futuremark has overhauled “The Gamers’ Benchmark” with the introduction of 3DMark 06. The benchmark includes improved Shader Model 2 tests, new CPU tests and HDR Shader Model 3 tests for system-wide gaming performance measurement. Final scores are now impacted very directly by the CPU used so we are including the Shader Model 2.0 and Shader Model 3.0 results as this will tell us just how well our video card performs in this benchmark.

It looks like we have a new 3D Mark 2006 leader, by the slimmest of margins. Looking at SM 2.0 scores we see that the 7900GTX now has a firm lead here. SM 3.0 is a different story though with ATI X1900XTX still with a nearly 200 point advantage.