Pixel-Churners: A round-up of Radeon 9700 PRO cards

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Hardware
Processor Intel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz (100 MHz)
Memory 2 x 128 MB, RD800
Graphics Cards ATi Radeon 9700ATi Radeon 9700 PRONVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4600NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4400Matrox Parhelia
Motherboard ASUS P4T-E
Drivers & Software
Graphics Driver NVIDIA - v. 40.72ATi - v. 02.4ATi - v. 02.3 (OC Tests)
DirectX Version 8.1
OS Windows XP Professional SP1
Benchmarks & Settings
Aquanox Retail Version v1.17
Max Payne Retail Version v1.05Benchmark using 'Shooting Alex'
Unreal Tournament Demo v1.1
2003 Demo Antalus Benchmark
Jedi Knight II Benchmark using 'jk2ffa'
3D Mark 2001 SE Pro Version, Build 330

Since the cards are identical, except for the cooling and colors, and run at the same clock speeds, we decided to skip time-consuming individual tests and just determined the ratings with the reference card. When it came to the overclocking tests, though, we gave each card an opportunity to strut its stuff. To give an idea of how the Radeon 9700 PRO performs, we've compared it to the "small" Radeon 9700, the NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4400 and 4600, and to the equally expensive Matrox Parhelia.