SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 REVIEW

"In this article we test the Sapphire Atlantis Radeon 9600 against the Inno3D GeForce 5200 Ultra, Inno3D GeForce 5200 SE and MSI GeForce4 Ti4200. Software used for benchmarking was:- 3dmark 2001 SE, 3dmark 2003, GL Excess, Nvidia Dawn, Comanche4, Max Payne 2, Quake III Arena, Serious Sam SE, Unreal Tournament 2003 and X2 The Threat."

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR	AMD ATHLON XP 2500
VIDEO CARD	SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600
	INNO3D GEFORCE 5200 ULTRA
	INNO3D GEFORCE 5200 SE
	MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200
ATI DRIVER	CATALYST v4.2
NVIDIA DRIVER	FORCEWARE v53.03
MOTHERBOARD	ASROCK K7S8X
MEMORY	512MB CRUCIAL PC2700 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM	WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 1
DIRECTX VERSION	v9.0b

COMANCHE 4

800x600

	42
	31
	46

1024x768

	42
	25
	45

1280x1024

	38
	18
	42

SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 INNO3D GEFORCE 5200 ULTRA
INNO3D GEFORCE 5200 SE MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Fullscreen Enabled
32Bit Colour Depth
Anti-Aliasing Disabled
Terrain Detail High
Object Detail High
Texture Quality High
Water Quality High
Shadows High
Particle Density High

COMMENT - "The Inno3D GeForce 5200 Ultra was unavailable for testing with this game. The results for Comanche4 apart from the Inno3D GeForce 5200 SE are small and the Sapphire Radeon 9600 finishes a close second to the MSI GeForce4 Ti4200."

MAX PAYNE 2

1024x768

	73
	38
	90

SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 INNO3D GEFORCE 5200 ULTRA
INNO3D GEFORCE 5200 SE MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Anti Aliasing Disabled
High Texture Colour Depth
High Texture Resolution
Trilinear Texture Filtering
All Content Scalabilty High

COMMENT - "Once again the Inno3D GeForce 5200 Ultra was unavailable for testing with this game. The Sapphire Radeon 9600 puts in a good performance of 73fps but the MSi GeForce4 Ti4200 with 90fps is much better."

QUAKE III ARENA

800x600

	216
	223
	161
	232

1024x768

	182
	198
	107
	215

1280x1024

	157
	174
	86
	198

4x FSAA & 8x ANISOTROPCI

	91
	73
	32
	81

SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 INNO3D GEFORCE 5200 ULTRA
INNO3D GEFORCE 5200 SE MSI GEFORCE4 TI4200

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Four.dm68 Benchmark
32Bit Colour Depth
Texture Compress Disabled
Lightmap Lighting
High Geometric Detail
Full Texture Detail
Trilinear Texture Filtering

COMMENT - "Nvidia based video cards have always performed very well with Quake3 and it comes as no surprise that they have shown such good performance. In the standard tests the Sapphire Radeon 9600 is closer in performance to the Inno3D GeForce 5200 Ultra than the MSI GeForce4 Ti4200. However once we enable fsaa and anisotropic filtering the Sapphire Radeon 9600 is able to beat all of the video cards tested."

SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 INTRODUCTION

PAGE 2 - MAX PAYNE 2 AND QUAKE III ARENA

PAGE 3 - SERIOUS SAM SE AND UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003

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