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Please take note of our
reference test system used for all graphics cards in this
review.
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HotHardware's Test Systems |
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Driven by Intel's
Pentium 4 |
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Intel Pentium 4 1.7GHz.
Processor
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Abit TH7-RAID Pentium 4
Motherboard
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256MB of Samsung PC800
RAMBUS DRDRAM
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nVidia GeForce2 Ti,
GeForce3 Ti200 and GeForce3 Ti500
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ATi Radeon 8500 and ATi
Radeon 7500
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IBM DTLA307030 30Gig ATA100
7200 RPM Hard Drive
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Windows 2000 Professional
w/ SP2
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Direct X 8.0a and nVidia
Detonator 4 reference drivers version 21.83
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ATi Performance Drivers
Version 7.60-04
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Intel chipset drivers
version 3.20
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Head-to-Head Performance Progressions
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The Battle Royal! |
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Let's first start out with our
personal favorite,
MadOnion's 3DMark 2001. It is one fantastic
DirectX 8 Gaming Benchmark.
The Radeon 8500 shows
respectable performance against its bitter rival, the
GeForce3 Ti500. It actually out scores the NV
powerhouse at 800X600 and 1024X768 resolutions in this 32
bit color test series. However, when the resolution
turns up to a peak 1600X1200, the R8500 lags slightly.
The Radeon 7500 bests the GeForce2 Ti card here but can't
keep up with its DirectX 8 capable brethren.
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Max
Payne Head 2 Head Performance |
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A street fight
between two graphics giants! |
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The game engine used in 3DMark
is the same technology by
Remedy, that drives the fantastic new First Person
Shooter, Max Payne. Let's see how our contenders fair
under the stress of the brutal streets of Max's world.
We used the time demos that were
recorded by
the folks at 3D Center. This is a fairly stable
and repeatable test. It allows you to obtain an
average frame rate from a recorded session demo file.
We tested exclusively in 32 bit color for this test.
What is surprising here is that the Radeon 8500 falls behind
the GeForce3 cards here even though this game uses the same
engine as 3D Mark 2001.
Let's look at the OpenGL side of
things, shall we?
OpenGL Benchmarks -
Vulpine and GLExess
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