Asus AX800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro)

Name: Asus AX800 Pro (Radeon X800 Pro) - Page 6
Brand: Asus

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, June 30, 2004, 10:30 PM EDT

Head-to-Head Performance With Unreal Tournament 2004

Epic's Next Smash Hit!

Unreal Tournament 2K4

Epic's "Unreal" games have been wildly popular, ever since the original Unreal was released in the late '90s. Unreal, Unreal Tournament, and then Unreal Tournament 2003, rapidly became some of our favorites, for both benchmarking and for killing a few hours when our schedules allowed! Epic recently released the latest addition to the franchise, Unreal Tournament 2004. We used a fully patched (v3120) full version of the game to benchmark these cards at resolutions of 1024x768 and 1600x1200, without any anti-aliasing, with 4x AA, with 4X AA and 8X anisotropic filtering and lastly with 4X AA and 16X aniso.

Things got a bit more interesting when we moved onto the more "industrial strength" benchmarks in our arsenal. Without any anti-aliasing and with 4X AA enabled, testing with our custom UT2004 timedemo showed the Asus AX800 Pro/TD and the two GeForce 6800 GTs performing at similar levels, with only a few frames per second separating the competitors. When we enabled Anisotropic filtering, however, the AX800 Pro/TD surged way ahead of the pack, besting the next fastest cards - the GeForce 6800 GTs - by about 20 frames per second at both resolutions.

Tags: Asus, Radeon, pro, X8

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com