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Review: 'Connect3D' ATi Radeon 9800 Pro

by Tarinder Sandhu on 6 March 2003, 00:00 4.5

Tags: Connect 3D

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SS2 4x AA, 8x AF

Now with 4x AA and 8x AF applied.

The FX really dies a thousand deaths at 1600x1200x32 with 4x FSAA and 8x AF. 16GB/s of bandwidth is just not enough here. The 9800 Pro takes all three benchmarks with something to spare.

As the FX cannot run any higher than these settings in OpenGL, it would be unfair to run the Radeons against it at their peak image quality rate of 6x FSAA and 16x Anisotropic filtering. Just to let you know, the 9700 Pro scored 71.9 FPS (1024), 47.9 FPS (1280) and 34.8 FPS (1600) with 6x AA and 16x AF. The 9800 Pro scored 82.6 FPS (1024), 56.3 FPS (1280) and 41.1 FPS (1600). The 9800 Pro can almost do at 6x AA 16x AF what the FX can do at 4x AA and 8x AF.