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Review: ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5700

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 29 May 2004, 00:00

Tags: Alienware (NASDAQ:DELL)

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D3D Rightmark

Rightmark performance

The hidden surface removal test highlights the MR9600's lack of Hierarchical-Z in the Hyper-Z implementation. Early Z cull is a big bandwidth saver if done on chip, rather than having to read each pixel 'manually' in the buffer one by one.

Raw PS2.0 power, as shown by ShaderMark on the previous page, is a lot slower on Go5700. Fillrate is higher however, which should help translate into decent real world performance.