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RADEON 8500 - Driven To New Heights

By Lars Weinand published 23 November 2001

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Benchmarks

Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: The Second Attempt
Page 3: Smoothvision, Continued
Page 4: Anisotropic Filtering
Page 5: Test Setup
Page 6: Benchmarks
Page 7: Max Payne
Page 8: Quake 3
Page 9: 3DMark2000

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Giants

The Radeon's new driver gives it a tangible performance boost in 'Giants.' Nonetheless, the GeForce3 cards continue to dominate this benchmark.

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