Nemesis11
08-11-2004, 12:00
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Overclocking:
ATI has some stiff competition form nVidia in the Athlon 64 Enthusiast market. nVidia is well known and trusted by AMD enthusiasts who know the nForce3 Ultra and nForce4 will provide the kind of extra performance they are looking for.
Move over, nVidia, because the ATI Reference board reached an amazing 283x10 at 4X HyperTransport and 2.5-3-3-10 memory timings.
Using Hynix Rev. B double-sided memory, we were also able to reach a 291 (DDR582) overclock, matching the highest overclock that we have ever achieved in testing with DS DIMMs in Dual-Channel mode. The timings and bandwidth were lower at 291, which also required 2X HT, since 3X was not an option in the ATI RX480 BIOS. ATI tells us that 3X will be implemented in production BIOS for the Bullhead board. 283x10 at 2.5-3-3-10 gave the highest memory bandwidth available on the ATI with our standard overclocking test setup.
Intrigued by the performance of double-sided DIMMs in dual-channel mode, we asked ATI about the highest performance dual-channel overclocking that they had achieved with the RX480 in their labs. ATI shared results and timings using 2 single-sided 256MB PQI DIMMs at 2.5-4-4-9 1T timings, at a frequency of 313 or DDR616. We did not have single-sided Hynix B DIMMs in the lab to try to duplicate ATI's test setup. However, based on our results with DS DIMMs, we have no reason to doubt their results. If you compare these overclocks to the outstanding overclocking capabilities that we found with the DFI LANParty UT nF3-250Gb, you will see that the ATI Bullhead is reaching further in Dual-Channel mode than the highest clock speed that we could reach in single-channel mode on the Socket 754 DFI.
In our opinion, ATI has more than succeeded in their goal of proving to computer enthusiasts that the RX480 is a chipset for serious performance overclocking. These are, overall, the best overclocking results that we have ever seen with an Athlon 64 motherboard. The fact that these were achieved on a Reference board is all the more amazing!
For their first effort at an AMD Athlon 64 chipset, we can only say we are beyond impressed with the ATI RX480/RS480 chipset. No matter how we compare the performance the ATI RX480 is competitive or a bit faster than the best Socket 939 boards we have tested at AnandTech. That in itself would be reason enough to suggest a long, hard look at the ATI RX480 chipset, but there's more. ATI also did their homework in this go round; delivering a board that will excite any enthusiast who gives it a whirl. nVidia got to their position of prominence in the AMD world with solid boards that catered to Enthusiasts. ATI appears to finally understand that pleasing the OEM market is not the same as exciting Enthusiasts. The ATI Bullhead is a monster overclocker with amazing performance, and ATI deserves huge praise for their efforts and their results with their first AMD chipset.
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2269
Reviews:
http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2004q4/radeon-xpress200/index.x?pg=1
http://3dgpu.com/archives/2004/11/08/ati-radeon-xpress-200g-review/#more-356
http://www.hothardware.com/printarticle.cfm?articleid=597
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http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/ati%20rx480_11070471140/5358.png
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/ati%20rx480_11070471140/5359.png
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/ati%20rx480_11070471140/5344.png
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/ati%20rx480_11070471140/5356.png
Overclocking:
ATI has some stiff competition form nVidia in the Athlon 64 Enthusiast market. nVidia is well known and trusted by AMD enthusiasts who know the nForce3 Ultra and nForce4 will provide the kind of extra performance they are looking for.
Move over, nVidia, because the ATI Reference board reached an amazing 283x10 at 4X HyperTransport and 2.5-3-3-10 memory timings.
Using Hynix Rev. B double-sided memory, we were also able to reach a 291 (DDR582) overclock, matching the highest overclock that we have ever achieved in testing with DS DIMMs in Dual-Channel mode. The timings and bandwidth were lower at 291, which also required 2X HT, since 3X was not an option in the ATI RX480 BIOS. ATI tells us that 3X will be implemented in production BIOS for the Bullhead board. 283x10 at 2.5-3-3-10 gave the highest memory bandwidth available on the ATI with our standard overclocking test setup.
Intrigued by the performance of double-sided DIMMs in dual-channel mode, we asked ATI about the highest performance dual-channel overclocking that they had achieved with the RX480 in their labs. ATI shared results and timings using 2 single-sided 256MB PQI DIMMs at 2.5-4-4-9 1T timings, at a frequency of 313 or DDR616. We did not have single-sided Hynix B DIMMs in the lab to try to duplicate ATI's test setup. However, based on our results with DS DIMMs, we have no reason to doubt their results. If you compare these overclocks to the outstanding overclocking capabilities that we found with the DFI LANParty UT nF3-250Gb, you will see that the ATI Bullhead is reaching further in Dual-Channel mode than the highest clock speed that we could reach in single-channel mode on the Socket 754 DFI.
In our opinion, ATI has more than succeeded in their goal of proving to computer enthusiasts that the RX480 is a chipset for serious performance overclocking. These are, overall, the best overclocking results that we have ever seen with an Athlon 64 motherboard. The fact that these were achieved on a Reference board is all the more amazing!
For their first effort at an AMD Athlon 64 chipset, we can only say we are beyond impressed with the ATI RX480/RS480 chipset. No matter how we compare the performance the ATI RX480 is competitive or a bit faster than the best Socket 939 boards we have tested at AnandTech. That in itself would be reason enough to suggest a long, hard look at the ATI RX480 chipset, but there's more. ATI also did their homework in this go round; delivering a board that will excite any enthusiast who gives it a whirl. nVidia got to their position of prominence in the AMD world with solid boards that catered to Enthusiasts. ATI appears to finally understand that pleasing the OEM market is not the same as exciting Enthusiasts. The ATI Bullhead is a monster overclocker with amazing performance, and ATI deserves huge praise for their efforts and their results with their first AMD chipset.
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2269
Reviews:
http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2004q4/radeon-xpress200/index.x?pg=1
http://3dgpu.com/archives/2004/11/08/ati-radeon-xpress-200g-review/#more-356
http://www.hothardware.com/printarticle.cfm?articleid=597