OCUK ATI RADEON 9700 PRO REVIEW

"In this article we review the OCUK ATI RADEON 9700 PRO video card, featured software includes Half Life 2, Doom3, Quake3, Tribes Vengeance, Unreal Tournament 2004, X2 The Threat and various other popular games software."

ATI Radeon® 9700 Pro is the most advanced graphics board in its category, featuring ATI's Radeon 9700 Pro Visual Processing Unit (VPU), supporting AGP design specifications. Through a combination of incredible 3D rendering performance, sophisticated real-time visual effects, industry-leading image quality, processing speed, and cutting-edge video features, it takes the PC entertainment experience to a new level.

• Fastest 3D gaming performance with next-generation VPU architecture.
• Complete DirectX® 9.0 support for unprecedented realism and sophisticated visual effects.
• Smoothvision™ 2.0 technology provides new levels of image quality.
• Revolutionary new video features including Videoshader™ and Fullstream™ technologies.
• Featuring Catalyst™ - ATI's industry leading software suite with frequently scheduled updates.
• .15 Silicon Process.
• 110 Million Transistors.
• 325Mhz Core Clock Speed.
• 8 Rendering Pipelines with 1 texture sampling unit per pipe giving 2.6Giga Fillrate.
• 128MB of 310Mhz DDR RAM on a 256Bit Bus giving 19.8GB per second actual bandwidth.
• Up to 16 textures per pass.
• 4 Parallel Geometry Pipeline giving a peak Triangle throughput of 325Mtri/sec.
• Dual Display Controllers with two 400MHz RAMDAC's and Integrated TMDS Transmitter.
• DirectX Version 9.0 Compliancy.
• Trueform 2.0 Higher Order Surface Processor.
• Smartshader 2.0.
• DX Vertex Shaders 2.0.
• DX Pixel Shaders 2.0.
• HyperZ III Memory Optimisations.
• Smoothvision 2.0.
• Up to 6X FSAA.
• Up to 16X Anisotropic Filtering.
• Videoshader Video/DVD Playback.
• Hydravision Display Software.

3DMARK BENCHMARKS 3DMARK 2001 SE 15156 15245 3DMARK 2003 4909 5014 3DMARK 2005 2003 1001 OCUK ATI RADEON 9700 PRO MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT COMMENT - "The OCUK ATI Radeon 9700 Pro and MSI GeForce 5900 XT both offer very similar performance in both the 3dmark 2001 SE and 3dmark 2003 benchmarks. The shocking result is the very poor 3dmark 2005 result for the MSI GeForce 5900 XT, the OCUK ATI Radeon 9700 Pro delivers a HUGE 51% performance increase which is very impressive. 3dmark 2005 is a DX9 (ie PS2.0) only program and as shown in the Rightmark test the MSI GeForce 5900 XT offers very poor DX9 performance." BENCHMARK SETTINGS 3DMARK 2001 SE 1024x768 Resolution 32Bit color D3D Hardware T&L Antialiasing Disabled Double Frame Buffer Compressed Texture Format 24Bit Z-Buffer Depth 3DMARK 2003 1024x768 Resolution No Pixel Processing Optimal Texture Filtering 4x Max Anisotropy Optimal Vertex Shaders No Repeat Tests No Fixed Framerate 3DMARK 2005 1024x768 Resolution No Anti-Aliasing Optimal Filtering HLSL VS Target 2_0 HLSL PS Target 2_0 No Fixed Framerate

3DMARK 2001 SE GAMES CAR CHASE (HIGH DETAIL) 73 79 DRAGOTHIC (HIGH DETAIL) 158 149 LOBBY (HIGH DETAIL) 85 95 NATURE 101 84 OCUK ATI RADEON 9700 PRO MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT BENCHMARK SETTINGS 1024x768 Resolution 32Bit color D3D Hardware T&L Antialiasing Disabled Double Frame Buffer Compressed Texture Format 24Bit Z-Buffer Depth COMMENT - "The MSI GeForce 5900 XT does quite well with the basic DX7 tests and even managed to beat the OCUK ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. The Nature test is the most demanding and is the most important because it uses Pixel Shaders. With the Nature test the OCUK ATI Radeon 9700 Pro delivers a nice 17% performance increase over the MSI GeForce 5900 XT."

3DMARK 2001 SE FILLRATE SINGLE TEXTURING 1658 1434 MULTI TEXTURING 2561 2833 OCUK ATI RADEON 9700 PRO MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT BENCHMARK SETTINGS 1024x768 Resolution 32Bit color D3D Hardware T&L Antialiasing Disabled Double Frame Buffer Compressed Texture Format 24Bit Z-Buffer Depth COMMENT - "The OCUK ATI Radeon 9700 Pro offers 14% extra single texturing fillrate compared to the MSI GeForce 5900 XT. However with multi texturing the tables are turned and the MSI GeForce 5900 XT offers 10% extra multi texturing fillrate compared to the OCUK ATI Radeon 9700 Pro."

3DMARK 2001 SE SHADERS VERTEX SHADER 204 144 PIXEL SHADER 294 191 ADVANCED PIXEL SHADER 180 120 OCUK ATI RADEON 9700 PRO MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT BENCHMARK SETTINGS 1024x768 Resolution 32Bit color D3D Hardware T&L Antialiasing Disabled Double Frame Buffer Compressed Texture Format 24Bit Z-Buffer Depth COMMENT - "The OCUK ATI Radeon 9700 Pro shows it's better at all types of Shaders than the MSI GeForce 5900 XT by delivering 30% extra vertex shader performance, 36% extra pixel shader performance and 34% extra advanced pixel shader performance."