Review: ATI Radeon 9000 Pro All In Wonder

Below are the specifications of the system that provided a testbed for all cards during the testing stages: -

• AMD Athlon XP 2000+ (1666MHz) Socket A Processor
• ABIT NF7-S (nForce2) Mainboard running in DualDDR 266 Mode
• ATI Radeon 9700 Pro running at stock speeds (325/620)
• ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon running at stock speeds (166/333)

Common components

• 512MB (2x256) Crucial PC2100 running at 2-4-2-2 in Dual Channel DDR configuration, at DDR266/133MHz FSB
• IBM GXP120 40GB Hard Drive
• Pioneer 16x DVD Drive
• HiperPower 420watt PSU
• 19" IIyama Professional 454
• ThermalRight SLK-800 Cooler
• Cooler Master ATC 201-SX Chassis

Software

• Windows XP Professional Build 2600
• Windows XP Service Pack 1
• NVIDIA Platform Drivers version 2.00
• ATI Catalyst 2.5 Driver Suite
• 3DMark 2001SE
• Quake 3 Arena v1.30 PR
• Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo
• Radeonator 2.00 (overclocking/tweaking)

Notes

Benchmarks where applicable were tested at 1024x768x32, 1280x1024x32 and 1600x1200x32 resolutions. Vsync was set to off at all times.

Within the drivers page, quality related settings excluding Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic filtering were set to highest on all cards.

The inclusion of the All-In-Wonder Radeon was to help clarify exactly how far things have come since the Radeon Technology first appeared in the All-In-Wonder line, although their may have been more suitable means of demonstrating this, unfortunately the resources at time of review were not available.

I would have also liked to test the card with its closest rival, NVIDIA's GeForce4 MX series of value solutions. However, again, at time of review, the resources for such comparisons could not afford such testing.