ATI RADEON 9250

Name: ATI RADEON 9250 - Page 6
Brand: ATI

by Jason Gibson — Monday, November 15, 2004, 08:00 PM EDT

Doom 3 - Single Player

Benchmarks &Comparisons With Doom 3 - Single Player

The Wait Is Over!.

Doom 3

id Software's games have long been pushing the limits of 3D graphics. Quake, Quake 2, and Quake 3 were all instrumental in the success of 3D accelerators on the PC. Now, years later, with virtually every new desktop computer shipping with a 3D accelerator, id is at it again with the release of the visually stunning Doom 3. Doom 3 is an OpenGL game using extremely high-detailed textures and a ton of dynamic lighting and shadows. We ran custom demo benchmarks with Doom 3 set to its "High-Quality" mode, at resolutions of 640 x 480, then 800 x 600.

With all three of the cards turning very similar results, in most cases only being separated by a fraction of a frame, this was the closest round of testing. The only consistent trends which can be established from the numbers above are the results from the 9200, which unfortunately put it last once again. As for the 9250 and the S100 (9600SE), we're going to call the performance between the two, a draw. On average, there was only a 0.13 frame per second difference between their levels of performance.