Page 4: Benchmarks
<B>Benchmarks</B>:
All benchmarks were run at 1024x768, 1280x1024, and 1600x1200 in that order. SPEC was run by itself. The grey bars are the normal clocked Radeon, while the red bars show it at 337/317 by a BIOS flash. Let me say that Powerstrip made SPEC and some other OpenGL programs insanely slower, so I was forced to create a new BIOS with the speeds that I wanted. I don't know why that happened, but it did. Benchmarks are with no AA and no AF or with 4x AA and 16AF.
<B>System Specs</B>:
Athlon 1800+ @ 1.67Ghz (2000+)
Abit KX7-333R
512 PC2100 DDR at Mega Super Ultra settings (1T stuff)
80GB 8M WD
Radeon 9500 Pro (Duh)
Win2k SP3 and CATs v 3.0 with DX 9
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First up, we have SPEC 7 benchmarks. This may not mean much to the gamer, but for workstation people this will help. I like SPEC for many reasons. I think it puts the most strain on the graphics card. I used it for stability testing, when no other programs froze, SPEC did. The download is about 300 megs though.
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The Ever popular 3Dmark. This DX8.1 program is a good determination about how well games will run with DirectX. As you can see, there are some nice performance boosts when overclocking the Radeon. Even with AA+AF, the scores are pretty good!
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GLmark is an OpenGL benchmark. OpenGL with CAT v3 are having some problems I bet, I've noticed texture problems in Tribes 2 and it feels a bit sluggish, so I hope ATI fixes the OpenGL problems. Overclocking gives a slight increase in the numbers.
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Here we have Commanche 4, a nice CPU limited game. You can only tell that the graphics card really becomes the bottleneck is at the AA+AF scores. Overclocking provides a modest increase. This is also a DX benchmark.
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Lastly, we have another OpenGL benchmark, GLexcess. There is a very large performance gain when overclocking the card. I think a bit too high though, I did these numbers like 6 times and got the same results. Interesting...
All benchmarks were run at 1024x768, 1280x1024, and 1600x1200 in that order. SPEC was run by itself. The grey bars are the normal clocked Radeon, while the red bars show it at 337/317 by a BIOS flash. Let me say that Powerstrip made SPEC and some other OpenGL programs insanely slower, so I was forced to create a new BIOS with the speeds that I wanted. I don't know why that happened, but it did. Benchmarks are with no AA and no AF or with 4x AA and 16AF.
<B>System Specs</B>:
Athlon 1800+ @ 1.67Ghz (2000+)
Abit KX7-333R
512 PC2100 DDR at Mega Super Ultra settings (1T stuff)
80GB 8M WD
Radeon 9500 Pro (Duh)
Win2k SP3 and CATs v 3.0 with DX 9
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</center>First up, we have SPEC 7 benchmarks. This may not mean much to the gamer, but for workstation people this will help. I like SPEC for many reasons. I think it puts the most strain on the graphics card. I used it for stability testing, when no other programs froze, SPEC did. The download is about 300 megs though.
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</center>The Ever popular 3Dmark. This DX8.1 program is a good determination about how well games will run with DirectX. As you can see, there are some nice performance boosts when overclocking the Radeon. Even with AA+AF, the scores are pretty good!
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</center>GLmark is an OpenGL benchmark. OpenGL with CAT v3 are having some problems I bet, I've noticed texture problems in Tribes 2 and it feels a bit sluggish, so I hope ATI fixes the OpenGL problems. Overclocking gives a slight increase in the numbers.
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</center>Here we have Commanche 4, a nice CPU limited game. You can only tell that the graphics card really becomes the bottleneck is at the AA+AF scores. Overclocking provides a modest increase. This is also a DX benchmark.
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</center>Lastly, we have another OpenGL benchmark, GLexcess. There is a very large performance gain when overclocking the card. I think a bit too high though, I did these numbers like 6 times and got the same results. Interesting...