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."

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

PROCESSOR	AMD ATHLON XP 3200
VIDEO CARD	OCUK ATI RADEON 9700 PRO
	MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT
ATI DRIVER	CATALYST v4.11
NVIDIA DRIVER	FORCEWARE v67.03
MOTHERBOARD	ASROCK K7S8XE+
MEMORY	2x 512MB OCZ GOLD XTC PC3200 DDR
OPERATING SYSTEM	WINDOWS XP SERVICE PACK 2
DIRECTX VERSION	v9.0c

QUAKE III ARENA

1024x768

	271
	280

1024x768 (4xAA & 8xAF)

	183
	184

OCUK ATI RADEON 9700 PRO MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Four.dm68 Benchmark
32Bit Colour Depth
Texture Compress Disabled
Lightmap Lighting
High Geometric Detail
Full Texture Detail
Trilinear Texture Filtering

COMMENT - "This is a close result which the MSI GeForce 5900 XT wins by a slim 4% and then when 4x anti-aliasing and 8x anisotropic is enabled by an even slimmer 1%."

TRIBES VENGEANCE

MEDIUM QUALITY

	87
	80

HIGH QUALITY

	68
	57

ULTRA HIGH QUALITY

	56
	33

ULTRA HIGH QUALITY (4xAA & 8xAF)

	26
	24

OCUK ATI RADEON 9700 PRO MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT

COMMENT - "I think it's safe to say that the OCUK ATI Radeon 9700 Pro offers the best Tribes Vengeance performance, using medium quality settings the OCUK ATI Radeon 9700 Pro beats the MSI GeForce 5900 XT by 9%. Increasing the image quality settings to high quality increases the OCUK ATI Radeon 9700's lead over the MSI GeForce 5900 XT to 17%. The OCUK ATI Radeon 9700 Pro is about to show it's superior performance when we switch to ultra high quality and the OCUK ATI Radeon 9700 Pro now delivers a HUGE 42% performance advantage over the MSI GeForce 5900 XT. The Ultra High Quality setting uses DX9 which is why the OCUK ATI Radeon 9700 Pro has such a huge advantage over the MSI GeForce 5900 XT which has poor DX9 performance."

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
1024x768 Resolution
Imperial Arena level

MEDIUM QUALITY
Bump Map Detail Low
Texture Detail Medium
Terrain Micro Enabled
Fluid Surface Detail Medium
Fogging Distance Medium
Dynamic Shadow Medium
Glow Detail Medium
Terrain Deco Disabled
World Detail Medium
V2.0 Pixel Shaders Disabled

HIGH QUALITY
Bump Map Detail High
Texture Detail High
Terrain Micro Enabled
Fluid Surface Detail UHigh
Fogging Distance High
Dynamic Shadow High
Glow Detail High
Terrain Deco Enabled
World Detail High
V2.0 Pixel Shaders Disabled

ULTRA HIGH QUALITY
Bump Map Detail Ultra High
Texture Detail Ultra High
Terrain Micro Enabled
Fluid Surface Detail UHigh
Fogging Distance Ultra High
Dynamic Shadow Ultra High
Glow Detail Ultra High
Terrain Deco Enabled
World Detail Ultra High
V2.0 Pixel Shaders Enabled

UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004

BRIDGE OF FATE

	106
	106

BRIDGE OF FATE (4xAA & 8xAF)

	97
	97

CONVOY

	54
	53

CONVOY (4xAA & 8xAF)

	52
	51

TORLAN

	76
	75

TORLAN (4xAA & 8xAF)

	60
	64

OCUK ATI RADEON 9700 PRO MSI GEFORCE 5900 XT

BENCHMARK SETTINGS
Direct3D Render Device
1024x768 Resolution
32Bit Colour Depth
Texture Detail Normal
Character Detail Normal
World Detail High
Physics Detail High
Decal Stay High
Full Character Shadows
Full Fog Distance
Decals Enabled
Dynamic Lighting Enabled
Detail Textures Enabled
Coronas Enabled
Trilinear Filtering Enabled
Projectors Enabled
Foliage Enabled
Weather Effects Enabled

COMMENT - "OCUK ATI Radeon 9700 Pro and MSI GeForce 5900 XT deliver roughly the same performance with Unreal Tournament 2004. The biggest difference between them was with the Torlan Benchmark with 4x anti-aliasing and 8x anisotropic which the MSI GeForce 5900 XT wins by 7%."

OCUK ATI RADEON 9700 PRO REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - OCUK ATI RADEON 9700 PRO INTRODUCTION

PAGE 2 - 3DMARK 2003

PAGE 3 - RIGHTMARK, DOOM III AND HALF LIFE

PAGE 4 - QUAKE III ARENA AND TRIBES VENGEANCE

PAGE 5 - DAWN OF WAR AND X2 THE THREAT

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