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

Benchmarks

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Hardware
ProcessorIntel Pentium 4 2.2 GHz (100 MHz)
Memory2 x 128 MB, RD800
Graphics CardsATi Radeon 9700ATi Radeon 9700 PRONVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4600NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4400Matrox Parhelia
MotherboardASUS P4T-E
Drivers & Software
Graphics DriverNVIDIA - v. 40.72ATi - v. 02.4ATi - v. 02.3 (OC Tests)
DirectX Version8.1
OSWindows XP Professional SP1
Benchmarks & Settings
AquanoxRetail Version v1.17
Max PayneRetail Version v1.05Benchmark using 'Shooting Alex'
Unreal TournamentDemo v1.1
2003 DemoAntalus Benchmark
Jedi Knight IIBenchmark using 'jk2ffa'
3D Mark 2001 SEPro 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.