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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.
| NAME |
CHIPSET |
GPU SPEED |
MEMORY |
UK PRICE |
US PRICE |
| OCUK ATI RADEON 9700 PRO |
R300 |
325MHZ |
128MB 620MHZ DDR |
£105 |
$124 |
| MSI GEFORCE FX 5900 XT |
NV35 |
390MHZ |
128MB 700MHZ DDR |
£117 |
$175 |
| NAME |
CHIPSET |
GPU SPEED |
MEMORY |
UK PRICE |
US PRICE |
GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION
| PROCESSOR |
AMD ATHLON XP 3200 |
| VIDEO CARD |
OCUK ATI RADEON 9700 PRO |
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MSI GEFORCE FX 5900 XT |
| ATI DRIVER |
CATALYST v4.11 |
| NVIDIA DRIVER |
FORCEWARE v67.03 |
| MOTHERBOARD |
ASROCK K7S8XE+ (SIS748) |
| MEMORY |
2x 512MB OCZ GOLD XTC PC3200 DDR |
| OPERATING SYSTEM |
WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2 |
| DIRECTX VERSION |
v9.0c |
3DMARK BENCHMARKS
 | 15156 |
 | 15245 |
 | 4909 |
 | 5014 |
 | 2003 |
 | 1001 |
OCUK ATI RADEON 9700 PRO MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT
COMMENT - "The OCUK ATI Radeon 9700 Pro and MSI Geforce FX 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 FX 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 FX 5900 XT offers very poor DX9 performance."
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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
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3DMARK 2001 SE FILLRATE
 | 1658 |
 | 1434 |
 | 2561 |
 | 2833 |
OCUK ATI RADEON 9700 PRO MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT
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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."
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3DMARK 2001 SE SHADERS
 | 204 |
 | 144 |
 | 294 |
 | 191 |
 | 180 |
 | 120 |
OCUK ATI RADEON 9700 PRO MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT
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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."
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