Gigabyte's Radeon 9700 Pro - Hitting 400MHz

Antialiasing & Anisotropic Filtering Performance

Just for completeness we ran some AA/Anisotropic filtering tests to show the performance improvement overclocking yielded when situations really get tough. We used the same settings for these tests as we used in our final Radeon 9700 Pro review (16X quality aniso + 4X AA).

Unreal Tournament 2003 w/ AA & Aniso dm-Antalus 1280x1024x32 ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (378/674) ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Gigabyte GV-R9700Pro (400/674) Gigabyte GV-R9700Pro NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 49.5 44.2 44.1 39 17.5 | 0 | 10 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 59

Unreal Tournament 2003 w/ AA & Aniso dm-Antalus 1600x1200x32 ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (378/674) ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Gigabyte GV-R9700Pro (400/674) Gigabyte GV-R9700Pro NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 35 31.3 30.5 27.1 11.1 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 28 | 35 | 42

There are clearly some issues with the prerelease Gigabyte board, even the overclocked setup is unable to reach the speed of a stock Radeon 9700 Pro.

Unreal Tournament 2003 w/ AA & Aniso dm-Asbestos 1024x768x32 ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (378/674) Gigabyte GV-R9700Pro (400/674) ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Gigabyte GV-R9700Pro NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 118.5 117.4 105.7 103 63.6 | 0 | 24 | 47 | 71 | 95 | 119 | 142

Unreal Tournament 2003 w/ AA & Aniso dm-Asbestos 1280x1024x32 ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (378/674) Gigabyte GV-R9700Pro (400/674) ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Gigabyte GV-R9700Pro NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 80.5 78.1 71.6 68.7 37.7 | 0 | 16 | 32 | 48 | 64 | 81 | 97

Unreal Tournament 2003 w/ AA & Aniso dm-Asbestos 1600x1200x32 ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (378/674) Gigabyte GV-R9700Pro (400/674) ATI Radeon 9700 Pro Gigabyte GV-R9700Pro NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 58.9 56 52.4 49.2 25 | 0 | 12 | 24 | 35 | 47 | 59 | 71