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."

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR	AMD ATHLON XP 3000
VIDEO CARD	SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT
	SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600
ATI DRIVER	CATALYST v4.2
MOTHERBOARD	ASROCK K7S8XE+
MEMORY	512MB CRUCIAL PC3200 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM	WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 1
DIRECTX VERSION	v9.0b

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."

CONCLUSION - "The Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT's performance was very good and it usually delivered a good performance increase over the Sapphire Radeon 9600. It was found that it was also able to deliver a much better minimum frame rate which is very important for smooth gameplay. Another advantage of the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT is that it's memory is clocked 50mhz higher than the regular Radeon 9600 XT. Although I doubt an extra 50mhz will make a huge difference to performance a bit extra never hurts. I tried really hard to think of something negative to say about the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT but failed. The Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT is a very good video card and performed very well without any problems. The Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT was tested with a wide range of very different games and I didn't encounter any driver or hardware related problems."
ULTIMATE HARDWARE AWARDS THE SAPPHIRE ATLANTIS RADEON 9600 XT 85%

SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - SAPPHIRE RADEON 9600 XT INTRODUCTION

PAGE 2 - QUAKE III ARENA AND SERIOUS SAM SE

PAGE 3 - UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003 AND X2 THE THREAT

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