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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

3DMARK 2003

	5860
	5170

POWERCOLOR RADEON 9800 PRO INNO3D GEFORCE 5900 XT

COMMENT - "The Powercolor Radeon 9800 Pro starts off strongly against the Inno3D GeForce 5900 XT and beats it by 690 points which is a 12% performance advantage."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
3DMARK 2003
1024x768 Resolution
No Pixel Processing
Optimal Texture Filtering
4x Max Anisotropy
Optimal Vertex Shaders
No Repeat Tests
No Fixed Framerate

AQUAMARK 3

1024x768

	45
	48

1280x1024

	40
	40

1024x768 (4xAA & 8xAF)

	36
	30

1280x1024 (4xAA & 8xAF)

	27
	22

POWERCOLOR RADEON 9800 PRO INNO3D GEFORCE 5900 XT

COMMENT - "The Inno3D GeForce 5900 XT starts off strongly winning the first benchmark at 1024x768 by 3fps and drawing the second benchmark which is at 1280x1024. However once 4x Anti-Aliasing and 8x Anisotropic Filtering are enabled the Powercolor Radeon 9800 Pro starts to show it's strength by winning the two remaining resolutions comfortably."

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1024x768

	70
	78

1280x1024

	68
	69

1024x768 (4xAA & 8xAF)

	65
	61

1280x1024 (4xAA & 8xAF)

	51
	45

POWERCOLOR RADEON 9800 PRO INNO3D GEFORCE 5900 XT

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Railgun Benchmark
High 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."

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2003

1024x768

	63
	61

1280x1024

	59
	55

1024x768 (4xAA & 8xAF)

	52
	47

1280x1024 (4xAA & 8xAF)

	36
	34

POWERCOLOR RADEON 9800 PRO INNO3D GEFORCE 5900 XT

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Antalus Benchmark
Character Shadows Enabled
Decals Enabled
Dynamic Lighting Enabled
Detail Textures Enabled
Projectors Enabled
Foliage Enabled

COMMENT - "For the first time we have a clear winner, the Powercolor Radeon 9800 Pro offers the best Unreal Tournament 2003 performance by 4% to 10%. The Inno3D GeForce 5900 XT tries to keep up but can't manage to beat the Powercolor Radeon 9800 Pro."

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DEFAULT QUALITY

1024x768

	82
	105

1280x1024

	73
	89

1024x768 (4xAA & 8xAF)

	77
	83

1280x1024 (4xAA & 8xAF)

	66
	67

POWERCOLOR RADEON 9800 PRO INNO3D GEFORCE 5900 XT

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Fullscreen Enabled
Auto Quality Enabled
Anti-aliasing Disabled
Bumpmaps Enabled
Shadows Disabled

COMMENT - "It seems the Powercolor Radeon 9800 Pro has a hard time beating the Inno3D GeForce 5900 XT when using OpenGL based games. The Powercolor Radeon 9800 Pro loses to the Inno3D GeForce 5900 XT by between 2% to 22% with X2."

CONCLUSION - "The Powercolor Radeon 9800 Pro usually fails to beat the Inno3D GeForce 5900 XT when using default settings. However when you turn on features like anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering the Powercolor Radeon 9800 Pro managed to distance itself from the Inno3D GeForce 5900 XT some of the time. The biggest performance advantage the Powercolor Radeon 9800 Pro has over the Inno3D GeForce 5900 XT is it's efficent anisotropic filtering, anti-aliasing and dx9 performance. The problem with the Powercolor Radeon 9800 Pro is it's price, it will set you back $197 (£141) compared to $175 (£128) for the Inno3D GeForce 5900 XT. When you consider the fact that the Inno3D GeForce 5900 XT is usually faster makes the Powercolor Radeon 9800 Pro too expensive."

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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."

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

3DMARK 2003

COMMENT - "The Powercolor Radeon 9800 Pro starts off strongly against the Inno3D GeForce 5900 XT and beats it by 690 points which is a 12% performance advantage."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS 3DMARK 2003 1024x768 Resolution No Pixel Processing Optimal Texture Filtering 4x Max Anisotropy Optimal Vertex Shaders No Repeat Tests No Fixed Framerate

AQUAMARK 3

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1024x768 Resolution
No Pixel Processing
Optimal Texture Filtering
4x Max Anisotropy
Optimal Vertex Shaders
No Repeat Tests
No Fixed Framerate

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