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ATi Radeon 9700 Full Release Review w/ Benchmarks

Posted by timothy on from the the-smell-of-expiring-NDAs dept.

Chalupa_Man writes: "ATi Technologies has officially released their new Radeon 9700 Pro today. Real benchmark numbers and a full review can be found here. The card is impressive for sure and should have NVIDIA on the ropes for a while, as it beats out a GeForce 4 Ti 4600 handily, especially with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering enabled. Image quality is also top notch for this new high end DX9 compliant product from ATi." sunny_talwar adds these links to more reviews of the new high-end Radeon at AnandTech's and Tom's Hardware. Update: 08/20 03:06 GMT by T : Cp writes "Gamers Depot also has their full review up of the Radeon 9700 Pro, including nice images of the driver tabs and 6x Antialiasing performance."

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  1. Re:And why??? by Schnapple · · Score: 5, Informative
    Are we still using QuakeIII as a benchmark?
    Well, several reasons:
    1. Quake 3 has been out for some time so you can follow the progress of this card in reference to other cards, even ones in the distant past (1999).
    2. The Quake 3 engine has improved quite a bit, especially in more recent games like Jedi Knight II and Return to Castle Wolfenstein.
    3. Quake 3 has proven quite stable and popular and powers a lot of games.
    4. ATI just got done with QuakeCon, so they're obviously big fans of id.
    5. The 9700 powers DOOM III pretty good (just got done seeing it this weekend at QuakeCon) and so it makes sense to see how well it will do with id's current engine before wondering what it will do with the next one.
    6. Most importantly, everyone uses Quake 3 to benchmark.
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    Schnapple

  2. I already have a 9700 by Critical_ · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its a demo/test model that I was using in the lab to verify compatibility with our applications. Yes, that is corporate speak for "I played quake for a couple hours on company time". I am payed to do that. Anyway, here it goes...

    * 2D: WOW! I have been a diehard Matrox fan because of the awesome 2D on their boards. However, I think Matrox might have a challenger on their hands. Even at dizzyingly high resolutions, the fonts were crisp and clean.

    * 3D: Very nice. It has been image quality than the Geforce Ti's with FSAA enabled. However, it cannot compete with the Matrox Parhelia here. The Parhelia, though it has slower framerates, has better color saturation and 16x FSAA w/o a massive performance hit.

    * Drivers: so far it was worked fine under WinXP. I got the SVGA xserver running on it after mucking around with Redhat for a couple hours. I am hoping a dedicated XServer is coming out for this card since it needs one badly.

    Anyone else have any luck under Linux?

  3. Re:This Discussion is Irrelevant... by cwebster · · Score: 5, Informative

    the doom3 demo theater at quakecon was run by a box with a radeon 9700, so that should answer your question.