ATi Radeon 9700 PRO - Pretender To The Throne

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FSAA Performance

Following NVIDIA's lead, ATi has now also switched to the faster multisampling edge-smoothing technique. You can find more details on this technology here . Let's take a look at how the two contestants perform under Direct3D and OpenGL with FSAA enabled. To give you a more detailed impression of the overall performance, we will also include the final 3DMark 2001 SE score with FSAA.

3D Mark 2001 SE 330 - FSAA

The Radeon obviously benefits from its superior memory bandwidth. Even with 2X FSAA, it is still faster than the GeForce4 without FSAA! With 2x or 4x FSAA enabled, it offers almost twice the performance of the GeForce4 at corresponding levels.

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Summary
  1. Introduction
  2. Introduction, Continued
  3. The Radeon 9700 PRO
  4. The Radeon 9700 PRO, Continued
  5. The Radeon 9700 PRO, Continued
  6. Drivers
  7. Test Setup
  8. Real World - Games And Synthetic Benchmarks
  9. Aquanox
  10. Dungeon Siege
  11. Comanche 4
  12. Quake 3
  13. Jedi Knight II
  14. 3DMark 2001 SE
  15. 3D Performance In Detail
  16. Fillrate
  17. Pixel Shader Tests
  18. Vertex Shader Tests
  19. Occlusion Culling
  20. FSAA Performance
  21. 3D Mark 2001 SE 330 - FSAA - Dragothic
  22. Anisotropic Filtering
  23. 3D Mark 2001 SE 330 - Anisotropic - Dragothic
  24. Maximum Quality - Aniso + FSAA
  25. 3D Mark 2001 SE - FSAA + Aniso - Dragothic High
  26. CPU Scaling
  27. Quake 3
  28. FullStream Video
  29. Conclusion
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