SAPPHIRE ATLANTIS RADEON 9000 PRO
VS SAPPHIRE ATLANTIS RADEON 9000

"The Sapphire Radeon 9000 Pro supports all of today’s features and blazes a trail for the adoption of tomorrow’s technologies. Possessing the power to sow detail rich environments, with features such as Trueform™, Smartshader™ and Smoothvision™, enjoy tomorrow’s technology today."

"Best-of-class 3D Gaming Performance, Powered by Ati's Radeon™ 9000 graphics technology, Four parallel, highly optimized rendering pipelines deliver fastest gaming performance in its class, Features up to 128MB of DDR memory to accelerate all popular 3D games, Advanced visual quality, Smartshader™ technology supports DirectX® 8.1 and enables more complex and realistic lighting effects, Smoothvision™ full-scene anti-aliasing technology delivers smoother-looking images, Progressive anisotropic filtering technology provides sharp and clear textures without sacrificing frame rates, Industry-leading video technology and software support, Features Video Immersion™ II technology for unprecedented video quality, Fullstream™, ATI's new video acceleration technology enhances the quality of video by removing blocky artifacts and delivering smoother-looking content."

QUAKE 3 ARENA 2xFSAA 640x480 160 147 800x600 118 103 1024x768 75 65 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9000 PRO SAPPHIRE RADEON 9000

COMMENT - "Things get even more demanding for the Sapphire Radeon 9000 video cards by activating 2x FSAA. The Sapphire Radeon 9000 Pro increases it's performance advantage over the Sapphire Radeon 9000 to 14%."

QUAKE 3 ARENA 4xFSAA 640x480 102 88 800x600 67 58 1024x768 44 28 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9000 PRO SAPPHIRE RADEON 9000

COMMENT - "We are now using 4x FSAA which clearly starts to show the power of the Sapphire Radeon 9000 Pro when it outperforms the Sapphire Radeon 9000 by a very impressive 37%."

QUAKE 3 ARENA ANISOTROPIC 2x ANISOTROPIC 153 137 8x ANISOTROPIC 149 132 16x ANISOTROPIC 148 131 SAPPHIRE RADEON 9000 PRO SAPPHIRE RADEON 9000

COMMENT - "The Sapphire Radeon 9000 Pro loses 4% while the Sapphire Radeon 9000 loses 5% when using Anisotropic Filtering."