ATI's Radeon 9500 Pro

AA & Anisotropic Filtering Performance (continued)

Comanche 4 Demo - Benchmark Test Max Anisotropic Filtering & 4x Anti-Aliasing Enabled ATI Radeon 9700 Pro ATI Radeon 9700 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 ATI Radeon 9500 Pro 35.3 30.9 25.1 22.7 19.8 5.4 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 28 | 35 | 42

Performance was dismal on the Radeon 9500 Pro in our Comanche 4 test which we can attribute to a combination of driver issues and the effects of a reduced frame buffer size.

Jedi Knight 2 v1.03 - JK2FFA Max Anisotropic Filtering & 4x Anti-Aliasing Enabled ATI Radeon 9700 Pro ATI Radeon 9700 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400 ATI Radeon 9500 Pro NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 154.3 150.6 97.4 92.4 90.8 79.1 | 0 | 31 | 62 | 93 | 123 | 154 | 19

In Jedi Knight 2, with aniso and AA enabled the 9500 Pro is on the heels of the Ti 4400.

Serious Sam 2 Demo - Little Trouble Max Anisotropic Filtering & 4x Anti-Aliasing Enabled ATI Radeon 9700 Pro ATI Radeon 9700 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400 ATI Radeon 9500 Pro NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 85.5 75.0 64.3 57.5 56.1 48.3 | 0 | 17 | 34 | 51 | 68 | 86 | 103

Once again the Radeon 9500 finds itself a close competitor with the Ti 4400.