ATI's Radeon 9500 Pro

Serious Sam 2 Performance

Croteam's Serious Sam games have been a favorite of ours not only because of their use of high quality textures but also because of their highly configurable engines. The team has always been one to try to adopt as many new features as possible into their games and thus we benchmark with everything enabled (with the exception of Truform and Anisotropic filtering):

Serious Sam 2 Demo - Little Trouble 1024x768 - Extreme Quality (Aniso Off) ATI Radeon 9700 Pro ATI Radeon 9700 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400 ATI Radeon 9500 Pro NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 144.5 137.6 130.1 123.7 110.1 107.8 | 0 | 29 | 58 | 87 | 116 | 145 | 173

In Serious Sam we start out with the Radeon 9500 Pro slightly ahead of the GeForce4 Ti 4200.

Serious Sam 2 Demo - Little Trouble 1280x1024 - Extreme Quality (Aniso Off) ATI Radeon 9700 Pro ATI Radeon 9700 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400 ATI Radeon 9500 Pro NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 114.4 102.5 89.5 84.1 74.6 71.2 | 0 | 23 | 46 | 69 | 92 | 114 | 137

As we increase the resolution the difference between the 9500 Pro and Ti 4200 rises to around 5%. The two 9700 boards are far ahead of the Ti 4600.

Serious Sam 2 Demo - Little Trouble 1600x1200 - Extreme Quality (Aniso Off) ATI Radeon 9700 Pro ATI Radeon 9700 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400 ATI Radeon 9500 Pro NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 87.7 77.2 64.6 59.9 54.0 50.0 | 0 | 18 | 35 | 53 | 70 | 88 | 105

Here the Radeon 9500 Pro sees its largest lead of 8% over the GeForce4 Ti 4200. The Ti 4400 ends up being 11% faster than the Radeon 9500 Pro despite having very similar clock speeds.