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| Sapphire Ultimate RADEON 9600XT Edition and ASUS RADEON 9600XT ASUS in Wonder? .... A Flawless Sapphire | |
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(Review by MS, February 18, 2004) |
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ASUS RADEON 9600XT At: |
Aquamark3
Aquamark GFX scores (red) and actual FPS (gray) with the fps scores scaled down by a factor of 10. At 30 frames per second average, the 9600XT is still in a very playable range.
Comanche4
Yellow: GFFX5900; Turquoise: 9800XT; Pink: 9800Pro; Blue: 9600XT
Without Antialiasing or Anisotropic Filtering, Comanche4 is too CPU and memory limited to show more than a marginal difference up to 1280 x 1024. At 1600 x 1200 resolution, the 9600XT drops off a bit.
AntiAliasing and Anisotropic Filtering
Yellow: GFFX5900; Turquoise: 9800XT; Pink: 9800Pro; Blue: 9600XT
We used 4 x AA and 8 x AF, both of which primarily stress the memory bus here the lower bandwidth of the 9600XT clearly shows in comparison to the high-end cards. Keep in mind that running at higher resolution is not necessarily a substitute for AA, even though the edges are smoother, the crawling effects are not eliminated by higher resolution while the textures are crisper. In other words, it is a matter of preference.
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