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Review: ATI rolls out Catalyst 9.3 with official Windows 7 support: HEXUS benchmarks high-end graphics

by Tarinder Sandhu on 18 March 2009, 05:00

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD), ATi Technologies (NYSE:AMD), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), XFX (HKG:1079), BFG Technologies

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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (high-end) 1,680x1,050 4xAA 16xAF
BFG GeForce GTX 295XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 *Win7*XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 *Win7*
156.67114.4157.15117.8


Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (high-end) 1,920x1,200 4xAA 16xAF
BFG GeForce GTX 295XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 *Win7*XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 *Win7*
135.83102.07136.4104.3


Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (high-end) 2,560x1,600 4xAA 16xAF
BFG GeForce GTX 295XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GBBFG GeForce GTX 295 *Win7*XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 *Win7*
92.170.1791.772.75


Graphics cards/performance difference Win7 vs. Vista XFX Radeon HD 4870 X2 2,048MB BFG GeForce GTX 295 1,792MB
1,680x1,050  2.97
0.32
1,920x1,200 2.15
0.44
2,560x1,600 3.70
-0.43

Catalyst 9.3 beta shows a slight, but consistent, rise in benchmark scores when switching operating systems, but the ForceWare 181.71 betas benchmark at more-or-less the same level.