POWERCOLOR RADEON 9800 PRO
"In this article we test the Powercolor Radeon 9800 Pro against the Inno3D GeForce 5900 XT. Software used:- 3dmark 2003, Aquamark3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory, Unreal Tournament 2003 and X2 the Threat."
Cinematic Rendering: Immerse yourself in the world’s fastest and most compelling game play, courtesy of the unprecedented speed and control of RADEON™ 9800 family of visual processors • 256-bit memory interface delivers the bandwidth for real time 3D graphics and barrier free performance.• 8-pixel pipeline architecture doubles the rendering power of other graphics processor. Maximum 3D: Brace yourself for feature film quality on your PC, the new standard in 3D entertainment. • SMARTSHADER™ 2.1 technology supports the latest Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 feature sets.• SMOOTHVISION™ 2.1 technology delivers the sharpest, clearest textures and removes jaggies. Generation New Technology Advanced stability meets revolutionary features in the RADEON™ 9800 Series, the only 8-pipeline graphics solution in its 2nd generation. • ATI’s Visual Processing Unit (VPU) is optimized to run the most demanding 3D and 2D applications.• Supports the latest Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 and OpenGL® 2.0 feature sets. • FULLSTREAM™ and VIDEOSHADER™ produce smoother looking, higher quality video. |
| NAME | CHIPSET | GPU SPEED | MEMORY | MEMORY INTERFACE |
MEMORY SPEED |
AGP SPEED |
| POWERCOLOR RADEON 9800 PRO | R350 | 380MHZ | 128MB | 256BIT | 680MHZ DDR | 8x |
| INNO3D GEFORCE 5900 XT | NV35 | 390MHZ | 128MB | 256BIT | 700MHZ DDR | 8x |
| NAME | CHIPSET | GPU SPEED | MEMORY | MEMORY INTERFACE |
MEMORY SPEED |
AGP SPEED |
GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION
| PROCESSOR | AMD ATHLON XP 3200 |
| VIDEO CARD | POWERCOLOR RADEON 9800 PRO |
| INNO3D GEFORCE 5900 XT | |
| ATI DRIVER | CATALYST v4.5 |
| NVIDIA DRIVER | FORCEWARE v61.11 |
| MOTHERBOARD | MSI K7N2 DELTA-L |
| MEMORY | 512MB CRUCIAL PC3200 DDR |
| OPERATING SYSTEM | WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 1 |
| DIRECTX VERSION | v9.0B |
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POWERCOLOR RADEON 9800 PRO INNO3D GEFORCE 5900 XT
| BENCHMARK SETTINGS Railgun BenchmarkHigh Quality Setting Geometric Detail High Texture Detail High Texture Quality 32Bit Trilinear Filtering Simple Shaders Disabled Compressed Textures Disabled Light Flares Enabled Wall Marks Enabled Dynamic Lights Enabled Identify Target Enabled Sync Every Frame Disabled Simple Items Disabled COMMENT - "These results are pretty much the same as the previous benchmark, the Inno3D GeForce 5900 XT wins all of the tests without anti-aliasing and anisotropic and the Powercolor Radeon 9800 Pro wins all of the tests with 4x anti-aliasing and 8x anisotropic filtering." |
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