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Here the Sapphire Radeon
9700 Pro has about a 1,000 3DMark lead over the GeForce4 Ti
4600, when Anti-Aliasing is not turned on. However,
turn on the eye candy, and the gap widens for the R300
powered Sapphire card. Again, with AA enabled, at
modest or high resolutions, the Radeon 9700 still offers about
twice the performance of a GeForce 4, regardless of new
driver optimizations.
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Comanche 4 - DirectX 8.1 Performance
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Alright, I'll admit it, I am an
avid Flight Sim fan. Furthermore, I specifically
own just about every Flight or Chopper Sim Novalogic
has ever released, since the original Comanche with the then
ground breaking "Voxel Engine". Well, just about
everything has changed since then and, with DirectX 8 driven
effects, Comanche never looked
so good . The company
even released a benchmark utility for the game and we
have results with that for you as well.
We've grown very accustomed to
using Comanche 4 as a CPU benchmark, around the HotHardware
Labs, as of late. As you can see, having the power of
the Radeon 9700 Atlantis Pro under the hood doesn't buy you
much with this game, even at high resolutions. You'll
need a fast CPU to achieve acceptable frame rates with all
detailed turned up to high, period. Also as you'll
note, the Radeon 9700 Pro based Sapphire card barely drops a
frame going from 1280X1024 to 1600X1200, in this test.
On the
other hand, turn on 4X AA and 64 Tap Aniso Filtering and
both cards take a sizable hit in performance at these
resolutions. We wanted to show you the breaking point
of the Radeon 9700 Pro here and as you can see with 4X AA,
it's 1600X1200. At 1280X1024, the card still holds
decent playable frame rates for this game, even when the
action is heavy. Just for the record, dropping down to
1024X768 with 4X AA and Aniso on, with the Radeon 9700
Atlantis Pro, gets you back into the low 40s.
Aquamark and Serious Sam
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