ATi Mobility Radeon 9800 - Benchmarked

Name: ATi Mobility Radeon 9800 - Benchmarked - Page 7
Brand: ATi

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, September 17, 2004, 06:00 PM EDT

Head-to-Head Performance With Unreal Tournament 2004

Epic's On-Line Barn Burner!

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 (v3270) full version of the game to benchmark these cards at resolutions of 1024x768 and 1600x1200, without any anti-aliasing, and lastly with 4X AA and 8 aniso enabled.

If Unreal Tournament 2004 is your game, you'd be quite happy with fast laptop powered by a Mobility Radeon 9800. Using our custom demo, which was recorded during an actual on-line game, the Mobility Radeon 9800 finished she a shade behind the Radeon 9800 Pro at both resolutions, in both test configurations. Without any anti-aliasing at 1024x768, both GPUs were basically GPU bound, finishing the test in a dead-heat. With AA turned on though, the Radeon 9800 Pro pulled about 10% ahead of the MR9800. At 1600x1200, in both test configurations, the Mobility Radeon 9800 trailed the Radeon 9800 Pro by about 10%.

Tags: ATI, Radeon, Mobility, benchmark, ATI Mobility, Mobility Radeon, 980, AR, K

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