Comanche 4
Looking like someone was sick on your monitor doesn't mean we shouldn't discard Comanche 4 as a benchmark. It's shader heavy in terms of generating its effects and it certainly makes wide use of those. Previous NVIDIA drivers would under draw certain textures at certain levels of anisotropic filtering, failing to bring out texture detail and overestimating performance. No such fiddling with the 45.23's. Here's the graph.
We're system limited at default resolution and IQ settings, so we see the expected performance parity there. It's when IQ gets enabled and the pixel count gets heavy that we see the differences between the ASUS and its ATI nemesis.
Radeon 9800 Pro digs out a 6% lead at 1024x768 4xAA 8xAF, with the ASUS board coming back when texture memory has an impact. If Comanche 4 type games are what you play on your system, you'll be happy with either board.
Memory bandwidth and core clock advantages make no difference to the NV35 score, the ATI is simply more efficient when executing Comanche 4's shaders.
