Crucial Radeon 9700 Pro & Sapphire Atlantis 9500 Pro review

Test System 

The system used for testing had the following components installed:

• Athlon XP 1,66Ghz CPU (XP 2000+) @ 133MHz FSB

• FIC AN17 mainboard

• 512mb PC2700 ram @ 166MHz bus

• Maxtor 80GB D740X hard drive

Video Cards used:

• Crucial Radeon 9700 Pro (128MB) - Catalyst 3.1a drivers

• Sapphire Radeon 9500 Pro (128MB) - Catalyst 3.1a drivers

• NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti 4200 @ 4600 speeds (300/650) (64MB) - v42.86 drivers

Quake III Benchmarks

Benchmark info: Quake 3 v1.30, all settings at maximum quality.

Normal Settings

4X FSAA, 8X Performance anisotropic

As you can see from the graphs above, when you are not stressing the cards the overclocked GeForce 4 board even manages to get an advantage in the now dated Quake3, it’s not until we crank up resolutions that the Radeon boards begin to flex its muscles.

With FSAA 4X & Anisotropic Filtering 8X turned on, the picture changes radically. The 9700 remains putting numbers two times higher than those of the GeForce4 board, impressive numbers indeed. The Atlantis 9500 Pro remains in good shape and manages to keep behind the 9700 somewhat until extreme strain is put on the memory bus, where the 9700 shows its advantage.

Select Crucial and Sapphire boards - First Impressions Test System - Quake III Tests (normal/FSAA) Benchmarks: 3DMark 2001 & UT 2003 tests Overclocking and comparison benchmarks Final Thoughts

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