Strike Force: The new ATI Radeon 9800, 9600 and 9200 Series

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8x Anisotropic Filtering

Page 1: ATi Strikes Again
Page 2: ATi Updates Entire 9x00 Product Line
Page 3: Radeon 9800, Continued
Page 4: Smart Shader 2.1
Page 5: Radeon 9600
Page 6: Radeon 9200
Page 7: Image Quality
Page 8: Anisotropic Filtering
Page 9: Anisotropic Filtering, Continued
Page 10: FSAA, Continued
Page 11: Test Setup
Page 12: Benchmarks
Page 13: Unreal Tournament 2003 - Antalus Botmatch
Page 14: Splinter Cell
Page 15: Splinter Cell, Continued
Page 16: Splinter Cell, Continued
Page 17: Aquanox
Page 18: Serious Sam: Second Encounter
Page 19: Serious Sam: Second Encounter, Continued
Page 20: 3DMark 2001 SE
Page 21: 3DMark 2001 Detail Tests
Page 22: 3DMark 2001 Detail Tests, Continued
Page 23: 3DMark 2001 Detail Tests, Continued
Page 24: 3DMark 2003
Page 25: 3DMark 2003 Detail Tests
Page 26: 3DMark 2003 Detail Tests, Continued
Page 27: Codecreatures
Page 28: Codecreatures, Continued
Page 29: Image Quality
Page 30: 8x Anisotropic Filtering
Page 31: 8x Anisotropic Filtering, Continued
Page 32: 4xFSAA + 8x Anisotropic Filtering
Page 33: 4xFSAA + 8x Anisotropic Filtering, Continued
Page 34: Conclusion

8x Anisotropic Filtering

Here we test a card's speed when using anisotropic filtering. Since the two companies use different optimizations, a direct "apples-to-apples" comparison is difficult. The quality tests at the beginning of the article showed that visually, ATi's chips seem to have an edge on the competition.

8x Anisotropic Filtering

8x Anisotropic Filtering

UT 2003 - 8x Aniso Quality