Fillrate
In the single-texturing tests, the ATI 9700 boards are able to use their 8 pixel pipelines to their full advantage. It's a somewhat different picture with multi-texturing, because only one texture per pipe and cycle can be calculated, while each of the four pipes of the GeForce 4 Ti can process two textures per cycle. What's bewildering is that the 9500 PRO falls behind in this test, because, like its bigger siblings, it also has 8 pixel pipes. So the results are in stark contrast to the official specs, which claim that it has double the fill rate of the GF4 Ti 4600! Here, it seems that the memory bus, reduced to 128-bit, makes itself felt, and this leads one to make some interesting assumptions about the architecture of the R300 memory interface. On the other hand, this could be due to the drivers not having been optimized for the 9500 yet.
