Radeon 7000 SDR vs Radeon 7000 DDR (Radeon VE) + Overclock to Reference Clocks - Test In 8 Games

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Published on August 16, 2025 8:42:29 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJeO0eNeuoM

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Need for Speed: Underground 2 (2004)

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Medion ATI Radeon 7000 AGP 64 MB SDR (VC-RDVEDRTV-64M) vs
Unitech Optimus 7000 Ultra 32 MB DDR AGP

GPU-Z Specs:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1q3FfOXh2fjvRqMUv2X5saQivpSDLzuph/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BmfJozMFAvqQaaasMybbllERA-OccjaT/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16MVUO1kVPByh-4DlM7oxq5NtEdZL8gDM/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1osuwqIGBiADq-PZ96I3SGOagm8lLSBPY/view?usp=sharing

All Games are in 1024x768

0:00 Intro
0:18 Half Life
1:19 Counter Strike 1.6
2:08 Soldier of Fortune
2:37 Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix
3:06 Battlefield 1942
3:45 Mafia NoAA
4:34 Need for Speed: Underground 2
5:22 Half Life 2

PC Specs:
Motherboard: Asus P5P800-VM
CPU: Intel Pentium D 945 3.4 GHz (Dual Core)
GPU: Radeon 7000 SDR or Radeon 7000 DDR
RAM: 2GB DDR1 Kinston 400MHz (1+1)
Windows XP Professional 32 bit SP3

Drivers:
Radeon 7000 - Catalyst 6.11 XP for all cards

Capture Card: HDMI Video Capture - HDMI to USB
Together with VGA+Audio to HDMI Convertor

Game Settings:

Half Life
Renderer: OpenGL
Display Mode: Normal
Resolution: 1024x768
Color Quality: Highest (32 bit)


Counter Strike 1.6
Renderer: OpenGL
Display Mode: Normal
Resolution: 1024x768


Soldier of Fortune ver. 1.07fx86F
Dynamic Video Settings
Ghoul Light Method: Hardware
Specular Lighting: On
Detail Texturing: On
Detail Texturing Range:2.5 / 15
Texture Mode: Mipped Bilinear
Anisotropic Filtering: On
Field of View: VERT 78.6

Video System Settings
Video Driver: Default OpenGL
Full Screen: Yes
Bitdepth: Auto (Same as Desktop 32 bit)
Alternate Simple Textures: Off
Texture Quality: High
Skin Texture Quality: High
Anisotropic Filtering: 2 / 15
Texture Magnification Filter: None
Texture Format: (Default)
Translucent Texture Format: (Default)

Resolution: 6: 1024 x 768 (4:3 1.333)


Soldier of Fortune 2: Double Helix
Light Flares: Simple
Resolution: 1024x768
Full Screen: Yes
Texture Quality: High
Texture Filter: Trilinear
Vertical Sync: Off
Quincunx Multisampling: Off
Anisotropic Filtering Level: Lowest
UI Texture Quality: High
Colors: Auto (Same as Desktop 32 bit)
FSAA: Off
Alias Shaders: Off
Advanced Texturing: On
Curve Subdivisions: Medium
Image Format: DXT5 Compressed
Alpha Image Format: DXT5 Compressed
OPENGL Extensions
Generic: Yes
ATI or NVIDIA Specific: Yes


Battlefield 1942
Video Performance: High
Display Mode: 1024x768 32bit
Graphics Quality: High
Effects Quality: High
Environment Mapping: Yes
Lightmaps: Yes
Shadows: Yes
Texture Quality: 80%
View Distance: 100%
Alternative Spawn Interface: No
Number of Bots: 50% (For purpose of benchmark)
CPU-Time Given to AI: 10% (For purpose of benchmark)


Mafia
Resolution: 1024x768
Anti-Aliasing: NO AA
Triple Buffering: No
V Sync: No
Frequency: Default
Color depth: 32 bit
Texture Quality:
Truecolor: NO (Important for GPUs with only 32 MB VRAM)
Low resolution: No
Compressed: No
Shadow quality
Truecolor: Yes
Only software mixing: Off
Turn off EAX: Yes

Hardware transformations and lighting: yes
Multi-pass rendering : No
Cut: No
W Buffer: Yes

Level of Detail: Highest
Visibility (Draw Distance): Highest
Blood: Lowest
Game effects: High
Sounds: High
Shadows: Highest
Particle effects : High


Need for Speed Underground 2
Resolution: 1024x768
Level of Detail 25%
Car Reflection Update Rate: Lowest
Car Reflection Detail: Low
Car Shadow Neon: Highest
Car Headlight: Off
Car Geometry Detail: Low
Crowds: Off
World Detail: 33%
Road Reflection Detail: Lowest
Light Trails: Off
Light Glow: On
Particle System: Off
Motion Blur: Off
Fog: Off
Depth of Field: Off
Full Screen Anti aliasing: Lowest
Tinting: On
Horizon Fog: Off
Overbright: Off
Enhanced Contrast: Off
Rain Splatter: Off
Texture Filtering: Lowest
Vsync: Off


Half Life 2 Low (for MX and older cards)
Resolution: 1024x768
Model Details: High
Texture Details: High
Shader Details: High
Water Details: Simple Reflections
Shadows Details: Low
Game UI Color Correct: Off
Anti Aliasing: None
Filtering Mode: Bilinear
Vsync: Off
Game UI hdr Level 0
Hardware DirectX: 7.0
Software DirectX: 9.0

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