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Chaintech Apogee AA5700U Videocard Review
Chaintech Apogee AA5700U Videocard Review - PCSTATS
Chaintech bundles plenty of goodies with the AA5700U videocard, including a full version of Commandos 3, a five game demo CD, WinDVD, WinCreator, WinRip and WinProducer
 84% Rating:   
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External Mfg. Website: Chaintech Mar 19 2004   C. Sun  
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Benchmarks: AquaMark 2.3, AquaMark3

AquaMark 2.3 Source: Massive Development

AquaMark is another DirectX 8 benchmark. Using vertex shaders, any card that is DirectX8 compatible will not just have a huge speed boost, the image will also look better. Default test has 24 MB worth of textures.

AquaMark 2.3 - 1024x768
Video Card FPS Ranking
ATi Radeon 9800XT 105.6
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 105.5

ATi Radeon 9700 Pro

99.3

Asus Radeon A9600XT 74.1
MSI FX5950 Ultra-VTD256 113.9
MSI FX5900U-VTD256 Ultra 111.7
Gigabyte GV-NV57U128D 84.1
Chaintech Apogee AA5700U 84.2
Chaintech Apogee AA5700U (550/1050) 93.8

Every card is perfectly gamable here in AquaMark at 1024x768.

AquaMark 2.3 - 1280x1024
Video Card FPS Ranking
ATi Radeon 9800XT 86.1
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 81.1

ATi Radeon 9700 Pro

71.2

Asus Radeon A9600XT 47.9
MSI FX5950 Ultra-VTD256 93.1
MSI FX5900U-VTD256 Ultra 89.9
Gigabyte GV-NV57U128D 55.8
Chaintech Apogee AA5700U 55.9
Chaintech Apogee AA5700U (550/1050) 64.5

AquaMark 2.3 - 1600x1200
Video Card FPS Ranking
ATi Radeon 9800XT 62.3
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 57.5

ATi Radeon 9700 Pro

50.2

Asus Radeon A9600XT 33.6
MSI FX5950 Ultra-VTD256 70.2
MSI FX5900U-VTD256 Ultra 67.4
Gigabyte GV-NV57U128D 39.7
Chaintech Apogee AA5700U 39.8
Chaintech Apogee AA5700U (550/1050) 46.4

The Chaintech Apogee AA5700U can provide you with decent framerates up to 1280x1024. Anything higher and the card is not powerful enough.

AquaMark3 Source: Massive Development

AquaMark3 is a powerful tool to determine reliable information about the gaming performance of a computer system. Because the benchmark extensively utilizes DirectX9, DirectX8 and DirectX7 functionality, it represents the requirements of typical gaming applications in 2003 and 2004.

AquaMark3 - Benchmark Results
Video Card Score Ranking
ATi Radeon 9800XT 6141
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 5670

ATi Radeon 9700 Pro

4860
Asus Radeon A9600XT 3735
MSI FX5950 Ultra-VTD256 5736
MSI FX5900U-VTD256 Ultra 5436
Gigabyte GV-NV57U128D 3435
Chaintech Apogee AA5700U 3438
Chaintech Apogee AA5700U (550/1050) 5019
Overall Score Ranking
ATi Radeon 9800XT 47175
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 44362

ATi Radeon 9700 Pro

39219
Asus Radeon A9600XT 31590
MSI FX5950 Ultra-VTD256 44875
MSI FX5900U-VTD256 Ultra 43010
Gigabyte GV-NV57U128D 29446
Chaintech Apogee AA5700U 29446
Chaintech Apogee AA5700U (550/1050) 40369

Here in AquaMark3 we see that the Radeon 9600XT powered Asus videocard performs slightly faster than the Chaintech Apogee AA5700U.

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Contents of Article: Chaintech Apogee AA5700U
 Pg 1.  Chaintech Apogee AA5700U Videocard Review
 Pg 2.  Chaintech's GOSU Software
 Pg 3.  Benchmarks: 3DMark2001, CodeCreatures
 Pg 4.  — Benchmarks: AquaMark 2.3, AquaMark3
 Pg 5.  Benchmarks: Gun Metal, X2: The Threat
 Pg 6.  Benchmarks: UT2003
 Pg 7.  Advanced Benchmarks: 3DMark2001, X2: The Threat
 Pg 8.  Advanced Benchmarks: UT2003, Conclusion

 
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