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As you can see,
the ATi Radeon 8500 significantly closes that gap here
between itself and the NVIDIA Ti 4400 and Ti 4600 based
cards, in this test. We're not exactly sure why the
Radeon 8500 does so much better in this test but clearly,
even though OpenGL titles have not been ATi's strong suit
until recently, the field is much tighter in this horse
race. Here we see a 7% advantage at 1280X1024 and 18%
advantage at 1024X768 for the VisionTek GeForce4 Ti 4400,
versus the Radeon 8500. Additionally, the Ti 4400 card
is within 8% of its big brother Ti 4600 card.
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Novalogic's Comanche 4 Benchmark |
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Direct 3D Testing
on a leading edge Flight Sim |
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Here's a
benchmark that we have been waiting for here in the
HotHardware Labs for a long time. Although it is a bit
of a "CPU hog",
Novalogic's Comanche 4 Benchmark Demo is one of the
better Direct 3D benchmarks (besides the esteemed MadOnion's
3DMark) we have seen in a long time.
We ran two
resolutions, as you can see in this graph, 1280X1024 and
1600X1200, both in 32 bit color with maximum detail.
Even with a 2.2GHz Pentium 4 Northwood driving the polygons
in this test, the variances between the two GeForce4 cards,
are minimal. If you are a fan of this game engine, you
might as well save a few pennies and go with a Ti4400 card
like the VisitonTek XTasy GeForce4 Ti4400. It will run
nearly as fast as a Ti4600 based card with this great
looking Chopper Sim... and then of course, you can always
over-clock it.
3DMark 2001SE, More FSAA, Overclocking and The Rating
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