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With each new 3D
Graphics Card launch, we like to give readers a taste of
leading edge game play, with some of the most current titles
out on the market. So, we fired up 4X AA and 8X Aniso
Filtering with our new All-In-Wonder Radeon 9800 Pro and
proceeded to jack into the worlds of "Morrowind" and "Enter
The Matrix".
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Eye Candy - In Game Footage |
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Morrowwind and Enter The Matrix |
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Bethesda
Softworks - Morrowind
(Bundled in with this card)
ATi bundles in
Morrowind with the All-In-Wonder Radeon 9800 Pro.
Gamers will really enjoy this new role playing adventure
series. Its landscapes and texture rich environments
are colorful, lush and complex. Also, even at high
1280X960 resolutions with 4X AA and 8X Anisotropic Filtering
enabled, the game remains smooth and fluid on the
All-In-Wonder Radeon 9800 Pro.
Infogrames
- Enter The Matrix
Although Enter
The Matrix is NOT a bundled title with the All-In-Wonder
Radeon 9800 Pro, we thought it would be nice to show you
high res, high IQ action gaming at its best in this new
first person shooter. Actually, you can play in first
and third person mode but with all of the cool Martial Arts
havoc your character can wield, we're pretty sure you'll opt
for third person mode as we did. Once again, when the
resolution and image quality is cranked high, the new
All-In-Wonder Radeon 9800 Pro handles the Matrix like they
say in the movie, "right as rain".
Benchmarks
anyone?
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Our test system
was based on a common Motherboard and CPU configuration,
with three different Graphics Cards involved at various
points in testing. We ran the All In Wonder Radeon
9800 Pro side by side with a GeForce FX 5900 Ultra and
in a few of our tests, added a 256MB Radeon 9800 Pro to
the mix. Since performance of an All In Wonder
Radeon 9800 Pro will be virtually identical to a
standard Radeon 9800 Pro, we felt it was a more relative
metric to also include ATi's top Enthusiast Gaming card,
which is the 256MB variant.
ATI
All-in-Wonder 9800 Pro
ATi
Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB
Catalyst Drivers
Version 3.4
NVIDIA
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra
Detonator FX 44.03
Drivers
Pentium 4 3GHz - 800MHz
FSB
Abit IC7-G Canterwood
Motherboard
512MB PC3500 Kingston HyperX DDR DRAM
120GB Seagate Barracuda
V SATA Hard Disk
Windows XP Pro SP-1
DirectX 9.0a
| Unfortunately,
this may be the last time you see 3DMark scores here at
HotHardware.com, at least until NVIDIA and FutureMark get
the mess they created sorted out. There is no shortage
of opinions on the topic these days, so we won't bore you
with another editorial before we serve up the benchmark
scores. We're only going to provide scores for 3DMark
2001 SE (version 330) in this article and frankly we're not
all that convinced that the scores with this test are all
that valid as well.
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Direct X Benchmarking |
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Both the AIW
Radeon 9800 Pro and the GFFX 5900 Ultra are neck and neck
here, without AA enabled. In fact, the AIW R9800
Pro bests the NVIDIA card by a hair. However, with 4X
AA enabled, NVIDIA's fill rate advantage takes over a bit
and pulls ahead of the All In Wonder Radeon 9800 Pro.
We'll talk more about the GFFX 5900's AA performance, in the
pages ahead. There's more to the story than just raw
numbers. Let's move out for now.
Quake 3 Arena and Serious Sam
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