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SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT

"Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT review against the Sapphire Radeon 9600. Software used for benchmarking was:- Comanche4, Quake III Arena and Serious Sam SE."

The terrestrial plane has never been touched by technology the likes which has arrived today. Effects afforded by the world's most complex VPU's in the ATi RADEON™ 9600 XT core, heralded as belonging to the celestial realm alone, now make their way to the hands of earthlings.

128MB DDR high performance two-channel DDR memory interface accelerates the latest 3D applications. Optimized 128-bit 2D engine with support for new WindowsXP GDI extensions.

3rd Generation Visual Processing Unit comprised of 4 rendering pipelines and 2 geometry engines.

Fully compliant with PC 2002 requirements.

Supports the AGP 8X and AGP 4x standard.

Full support for DirectX® 9.0 and the latest OpenGL® functionality.

New SMARTSHADER™ 2.0 technology allows users to experience complex, movie-quality effects in next-generation 3D games and applications

SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1 technology enhances image quality by removing jagged edges and bringing out fine texture detail, without compromising performance.

128-bit floating-point color precision allows for a greater range of colors and brightness.

NOTE THE SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT FEATURED IN THIS REVIEW IS THE FIREBLADE VERSION. THIS MEANS THE MEMORY HAS BEEN INCREASED FROM 600MHZ TO 650MHZ FOR A NICE SPEED BOOST!

COMANCHE 4 800x600 48 48 1024x768 48 46 1280x1024 47 41 1024x768 (4xAA & 8xAF) 37 24 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 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 two ATI Radeon video cards start off neck and neck however once you increase the resolution the performance of the Sapphire Radeon 9600 falls away much faster than the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT. The Sapphire Radeon 9600's performance drops by 50% between the first and last benchmark test however the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT's performance drops by only 23% which is very impressive."

QUAKE III ARENA 800x600 259 248 1024x768 251 189 1280x1024 236 159 1024x768 (4xAA & 8xAF) 155 91 1024x768 (6xAA & 16xAF) 119 72 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 BENCHMARK SETTINGS Four.dm68 Benchmark 32Bit Colour Depth Texture Compress Disabled Lightmap Lighting High Geometric Detail Full Texture Detail Trilinear Texture Filtering COMMENT - "Once again as the resolution increases the Sapphire Radeon 9600's performance suffers much more than the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT's. The Sapphire Radeon 9600's performances drops by 71% compared to the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT's 55%."

SERIOUS SAM SE GRAND CATHEDRAL 86 60 GRAND CATHEDRAL (4xAA & 8xAF) 72 45 CITADEL 113 80 CITADEL (4xAA & 8xAF) 84 54 ELEPHANT ATRIUM 105 62 ELEPHANT ATRIUM (4xAA & 8xAF) 78 45 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 BENCHMARK SETTINGS 1024x768 Resolution Fullscreen Enabled Extreme Quality Settings Large Texture Size Optimal Texture Quality Detail Textures Enabled COMMENT - "The Sapphire 9600 XT puts in a very solid performance across all of the demos tested even with fsaa and anisotropic filtering enabled. The difference between the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT's highest and lowest performance was only 37%, the Sapphire Radeon 9600 suffers a 45% performance drop."

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