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Leadtek WinFast PX8400 GS TDH Silent Review

Author: Dennis Garcia

Published: Sunday, September 16, 2007

Benchmarks

It is a proven fact that 90 percent of budget video cards do not do well when it comes to gaming, however the actual number varies depending on the game genre, game technology, and processor speed. For this review we will be using Serious Sam II as our primary benchmark with the aid of a benchmarking tool that you can find over at Guru3D called the "Serious Sam II Benchmark". This tool allows us to set the resolution, and technologies we want to test and benchmark them against one of the 3 internal demos. The scores are then formatted into an HTML page for easy viewing, and saving.

The system as it was tested

Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H Intel 975X Express Chipset
Core 2 Duo E6400 (2.13GHz) 2MB L2 cache 1066MHz FSB (Dual-Core)
OEM Heatsink
2x Adata Vitesta DDR2 800 (5-5-5-15) 512megs
Western Digital Raptor 36gig SerialATA 10000RPM
Antec NeoHE 550 power supply
12x/40x DVD/CDRom
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1

Video cards
Leadtek WinFast PX8400 GS TDH Silent
VisionTek ATI Radeon HD 2400 Pro
Chaintech SE6600G GeForce 6600GT PCI Express

Serious Sam II

Extreme action and never ending hordes of enemies is what the Serious Sam series is all about. Serious Sam II looks nothing like the original; the game engine was complete redesigned from the ground up to bring better graphics and more complex physics but we still like it for the wacky storyline and non-stop action.

3DMark 06

3DMark is a popular benchmarking tool that uses SM2.0 and HDR/SM3.0 shaders to test the performance of complete systems. The tests cover a wide variety of things but focus on GPU and CPU performance. On the positive since these tests are standardized it gives us the ability to compare scores across hardware platforms provided that only minimal hardware changes have been made.

Benchmark Conclusion

As our benchmarks show once again the Chaintech 6600GT wins out in our benchmarking tests. Do not read too much into this as the 6600 does feature a few technology advantages over the 8400GS including a 128-bit memory bus and higher core and memory clocks.

Not surprising the 2400 Pro comes in last in terms of gaming performance and wouldn't even begin to run 3DMark06.