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SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT

"Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT review against the Sapphire Radeon 9600. Software used for benchmarking was:- Call of Duty, Far Cry, Halo, Max Payne 2, Prince of Persia, Splinter Cell, Unreal Tournament 2003, X2 The Threat and XIII."

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!

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003 800x600 68 68 1024x768 68 57 1280x1024 64 40 1024x768 (4xAA & 8xAF) 51 31 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 BENCHMARK SETTINGS Antalus Benchmark Character Shadows Enabled Decals Enabled Dynamic Lighting Enabled Detail Textures Enabled Projectors Enabled Foliage Enabled COMMENT - "The Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT once again delivers a solid performance compared to the Sapphire Radeon 9600. The Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT's score of 51fps using high image quality settings was especially impressive."

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003 ANUBIS 121 87 ANUBIS (4xAA & 8xAF) 77 47 CITADEL 57 50 CITADEL (4xAA & 8xAF) 46 30 ORBITAL 111 99 ORBITAL (4xAA & 8xAF) 91 55 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 BENCHMARK SETTINGS 1024x768 Resolution Character Shadows Enabled Decals Enabled Dynamic Lighting Enabled Detail Textures Enabled Projectors Enabled Foliage Enabled COMMENT - "We are using a mixture of video card and cpu limited demos. The Anubis demo shows the biggest difference between the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT and the Sapphire Radeon 9600, the Citadel and Orbital results are close until you enable 4xaa and 8xaf and the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT wins."

X2 THE THREAT DEFAULT QUALITY MINIMUM 26 20 AVERAGE 72 53 MAXIMUM 205 125 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 BENCHMARK SETTINGS 1024x768 Resolution Fullscreen Enabled Auto Quality Enabled Anti-aliasing Disabled Bumpmaps Enabled Shadows Disabled COMMENT - "The Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT performs well with this game, it's average fps is 27% higher than the Sapphire Radeon 9600. The minimum fps results are the most important and both video cards failed reach 30fps."

X2 THE THREAT DEFAULT QUALITY MINIMUM 13 8 AVERAGE 39 26 MAXIMUM 162 99 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 BENCHMARK SETTINGS 1024x768 Resolution Fullscreen Enabled Auto Quality Enabled Anti-aliasing Disabled Bumpmaps Enabled Shadows Disabled COMMENT - "Only the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT is able to reach 30fps and the Sapphire Radeon 9600 would be unplayable with these high quality settings which is poor."

GAME BENCHMARKS CALL OF DUTY 77 68 FARCRY 47 46 HALO 46 25 MAX PAYNE 2 89 84 PRINCE OF PERSIA 68 43 SPLINTER CELL 41 39 X2 THE THREAT 40 36 XIII 112 76 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 COMMENT - "Using fraps I was able to test a wide range of games, no "real" benchmarks were used so the results should be taken as an indicator of possible performance. Every game was tested using the maximum quality settings and tested in a very detailed part of each game. The performance of the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT and the Sapphire Radeon 9600 was very close for most of the games tested. The Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT did however manage some large victories, it's performance with Halo was 46% higher, Prince of Persia was 37% higher and XIII was 30% higher."

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