Objectives

Why am I doing this? Well, I was curious to see how well my modded card will actually perform, when pitted against high-end cards like the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra.

At first, I wanted to see how well it would do against the Radeon 9800XT. But I decided to use the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra instead, simply because it would be more interesting to pit my modded cheap Radeon 9800SE against a much more expensive card from the rival camp.

I also decided to test the GeForce FX 5950 Ultra at stock speeds so that we can all see just how far a mid-range card like the Radeon 9800SE can perform against an off-the-shelf high-end card, when pushed to the edge!

Testing Methodology

Every test was done with all unnecessary applications closed (anti-virus, utilities, etc.). Upon completion of each test, I rebooted to restore the system to the same condition for the next test. All tests were done with all settings and resolutions untouched.

Disclaimer

As a member of Team ARP, I'm obligated to report the actual benchmark results that I achieved. All the scores in this comparison are the actual ones I recorded. While there are some weird scores like what you will see later, they were exactly what I recorded. To ensure that it wasn’t a glitch or anything, I repeated the same test a few times, but they gave the same results.

Now that we’ve gotten all that sorted out, let's move on!