POWERCOLOR RADEON 9700 PRO REVIEW

GENERAL SYSTEM INFORMATION

COMMENT - "This is the first of our game benchmarks and is a shader intensive game called Area 51. Both of the ATI cards do well and the Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro outperforms the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT by 16%."

COMMENT - "Aurora Watching is another clear victory for the two ATI video cards and the Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro outperforms the second placed Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT by between 5% to 30%. The Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro is the only video card which is playable at the high quality setting."

COMMENT - "Earth 2160 is another victory for the two ATI video cards and the Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro outperforms the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT by between 8% to 15%. The Gigabyte GeForce PCX 5900 does especially poorly with Earth 2160 and is only playable using low quality settings."

COMMENT - "The Far Cry results are fairly close and all of the video cards are playable upto medium quality but only the Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro is playable at high quality. Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro beats the Leadtek PX6600 by 4% to 17%."

COMMENT - "The Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro is the clear winner where GT Legends performance is concerned, it beats the other video cards by between 20% to 33%. GT Legends is a mixed result for the Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT and the Leadtek GeForce 6600 change places depending on the quality setting used."

COMMENT - "Quake 4 is another clear victory for the Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro and it beats the Leadtek GeForce 6600 by between 10% to 13%. Powercolor Radeon 9700 Pro and Leadtek GeForce 6600 are the only video cards which are playable using high quality settings."