Albatron FX5700 Ultra
Reviewed by James Sams on 03.02.2004

3D Mark 2001SE
The 3d Mark 2001SE benchmark has been around for several years and provides a general insight as to the 3D power and performance a card is capable of. While both ATI and Nvidia have attempted to skirt corners on the test, the benchmark itself remains relatively trustworthy. It is also useful because the point system also attempts to weigh in the quality of the produced images in addition to the speed with which they are produced. Of course, this gives some subjectivity to the test, but helps to standardize the quality of the image production.

The FX5700 does a much better job than its predecessor, jumping about 300 points in the broad test. Let's see how it handles anti-aliasing, a known killer of the previous revision of Nvidia cards.


Well, while the 5700 does hold up a bit better than the 5600 with anti-aliasing enabled, they are both fairly susceptible to slowdowns with this technology enabled.

3D Mark 2003
3DMark 2003 has received lots of bad press for lacking any real gaming engine and therefore being a totally theoretical benchmark with no realistic implementations. The complaints made against it seem to be legitimate. However, it is one of the more advanced DirectX9 benchmarks available and does a good job of testing picture quality. We provide it here, noting that some doubt may be warranted.

Again, the 5700 performs well and is not impacted as greatly as its predecessor by AA and AF.

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