Testing

To test GPUs XSR has a battery of synthetic and real world benchmarks that we put the cards through. Those tests are as follows:

3Dmark01, 3Dmark03, 3Dmark05, 3Dmark6, FEAR pre-set benchmark, X3 Reunion pre-set benchmark, HL2: Lost Coast built in benchmark and our very own Battlefield 2142 recorded demo sequence.

All 3Dmark tests are run using default settings and all gaming benchmarks are set as maximum detail (HL2:Lost Coast and BF2142 have 4x anti-aliasing). All tests were run 3 times and the average of the results taken to ensure that the scores were accurate. If there was a large anomally in the testing we repeated the 3 tests again.

The rig that this GPU was tested in is as follows:

Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 2.7ghz
Asus P5W DH Deluxe
Silverstone Olypia 650w
OCZ 2gb Special Ops PC6400 @ 900mhz
Spire Blackfin case with Noiseblocker 120mm's fitted in the front and rear; side panel 120mm fan disabled.

The results for this card were also compared to a Gainward 8800GTX in stock and overclocked states along with an x1900XT and an x1950XTX.

Overclocking

It should be noted that normally we would overclock the Foxconn card and compare it to the overclocking results of the Gainward card. However, when attempting to overclock the Foxconn card I could get nothing out of it, even with some extra cooling added in true XSR bodging style. After contacting my Foxconn representative I was informed that my sample was from one of the original 8800 batches which had had its overclocking ability extremely limited. Becuase of this, in almost all tests the Gainward card when overclocked is faster than the Foxconn. However, I will simply state that I am sure if you pruchase a Foxconn card from the current range that it will see similar overclocking results as the Gainward card did in our review here.

As usual I will begin my results roundup with the synthetic tests:

In all of the 3Dmark benchmarks the Foxconn card performed pretty much on par with the Gainward 8800 though falling behind by a couple of points here and there. It performed worse than the overclocked Gainward card but this is understandable since the Foxconn card was running at stock.