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Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT DDR2 – better than GeForce 9500GT DDR-3
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Date: 25.11.2008 |
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Testing the cooling system
We'll be testing the cooling system of Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT with FUR Renderer Benchmark 1.4.0 in the mode of testing the video card for stability at 1920x1200 and 8X FSAA enabled. The video card was warmed up for over ten minutes. We produced the following results:
The GPU of Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT was warmed up from 51 C in the 2D mode to 69 C under load. At the same time, the cooling system remained quiet.
The Tests
We'll be testing the video cards on a test bench of the following configuration:
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Test configuration
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| CPU |
Intel Core 2 Quad X6850 3.0 @ 3.67 GHz |
| Motherboard |
ASUS P5E3 (Intel X38) |
| RAM |
Corsair Dominator DDR3 2 x 2 GB 1333 MHz 6-6-6-18 1T |
| Operating system |
Windows Vista |
| Power supply unit |
HIPER 880 W |
As contenders to Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT, we selected GeForce 9500GT with DDR-3 video memory and Radeon HD 4670 which is close to it at the price. If we need to find out how justified the purchase of GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 is over GeForce 9500GT DDR-2, it makes sense to take account of its official competitor - Radeon HD 4670. To test Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT and GeForce 9500GT DDR-3, we used the driver GeForce 178.24, and for tests of Radeon HD 4670 we used Catalyst 8.10. Since the tested video cards are relatively weak, we pushed down some settings in the test games:
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Call of Duty 4
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| Shadows: |
no |
| Soften smoke edges: |
no |
| Texture quality: |
high (all the 3 sub-items, similarly) |
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NFS Pro Street Racing
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| Shadows on the track: |
medium |
| Effects of the track: |
minimum |
| Effects of motor cars: |
disabled |
| Smoke: |
disabled |
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Crysis
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| Medium quality |
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Call of Juarez
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| Quality of shadows: |
off |
| Shadow size: |
1024 |
| Material quality: |
medium |
| Texture quality: |
medium |
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Race Driver: GRID
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| General Settings: |
low |
The first results were produced in 3DMark 06.
At 3DMark 06, GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 left Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT behind by merely 18 per cent. At the same time, Radeon HD 4670 proved 47.4% faster than GeForce 9500GT DDR-3.
In 3DMark Vantage, we enabled merely the Entry mode since it is aimed at video cards of the GeForce 9500GT level. At this test, GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 proved not much more powerful than Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT. At the same time, Radeon HD 4670 was faster than GeForce 9500 DDR-3 by 47% at the overall number of points, and by 64.8% at the number of GPU score points.
We'll be running further tests in the modes with the FSAA and AF disabled.
At Call of Duty, Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT was a little bit behind GeForce GeForce 9500GT DDR-3. At the same time, Radeon HD 4670 left GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 behind by 80% on average.
At Need for Speed Pro Street Racing, the difference in speed between Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT and GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 is negligible. At the same time, Radeon HD 4670 proved faster than GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 by 79.9% on average.
At Crysis, the difference in speed between Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT and GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 turned out to be really minor. Radeon HD 4670 once again demonstrated its power over GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 which is close to it by the price and left it behind by 95.4% on average.
Call of Juarez proved to be highly demanding to the video memory speed, so Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT lagged behind GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 by 25.3% on average. We also can't help noticing that although GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 beat Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT, its speed anyway is too small for a comfortable gameplay. But Radeon HD 4670 left GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 behind by 63.4% on average, thus demonstrating a speed level acceptable for a comfortable gameplay.
At Race Driver: GRID, the difference in speed between Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT and GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 turned out to be negligible. On the other hand, Radeon HD 4670 proved faster than GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 by 128.1% on average, that is, by more than twice faster.
On this diagram, we showed the speed difference between GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 and GeForce 9500GT DDR-2 in percentage, and we took average values for games. As you can see, only at 3DMark 06 and Call of Juarez the superiority of GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 over GeForce 9500GT DDR-2 is substantial. In other cases, it is not higher than 11%.
Final Words
Based on the results of our tests, we can clearly see that GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 offers no special advantages over GeForce 9500GT DDR-2 which was represented by Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT in our review. Both the video cards showed close results. A weighty advantage of Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT is seen from its much lower price as compared to GeForce 9500GT DDR-3. See for yourselves:
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Approx. price
in the Moscow retail, rubles |
| Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT |
1900 |
| GeForce 9500GT DDR-3 (512 MB) |
2500 |
| Radeon HD 4670 |
2800 |
Therefore, we believe Leadtek WinFast PX9500 GT is the optimum candidate for an inexpensive video card which allows playing most recent games at low settings.
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