ATI Radeon 9800SE Video Card Review
Real gaming applications
From synthetic applications, we are now moving on to analyzing the performance of the graphic boards in real gaming applications.
Unreal Tournament 2003
Unreal Tournament 2003 traditionally "fond of" NVIDIA cards shows a clear superiority of the representative of the Californian company at this test. In all the other respects: again the same poor results of ATI Radeon 9800SE 128-bit and the same outstanding results for ATI Radeon 9800SE with all the rendering pipelines enabled.
X2: The Threat Demo
The leadership of similarly positioned NVIDIA products in this test is traditional. The processing of stencil shades in NVIDIA cards in the X2: The Threat engine requires less passes. The alignment of forces in the camp of the two versions of ATI Radeon 9800SE is the same.
Unreal II: The Awakening
At low resolution, the boards by NVIDIA and ATI (PowerColor ATI Radeon 9800SE 256-bit with 8 rendering pipelines enabled) demonstrate a complete parity. At high resolution, ATI board takes a lead. Again the situation with results for Unreal 2 tests relative to the results for Unreal Tournament 2003 is still unclear. The results are different, although the engines of the games are the same (the Unreal 2 engine is merely a "cosmetically remade" Unreal Tournament 2003 engine). In our previous materials, we noted such strange results for these benchmarks. And this time as well we've got to point to the strange results and remind the readers that there is an embedded benchmark in Unreal Tournament 2003 and is not in Unreal 2, which suggests certain ideas =).
Final Fantasy XI Official Benchmark 2
The alignment of forces is generally the same. There is a slight leadership of ATI board with the pipelines enabled.
AquaMark 3
This is a really indicative test to date. NVIDIA's leadership at that is evident.
Traditionally, we take detailed readings from the AquaMark 3 test.
ASUS FX 5900 o/c 450/850 |
Sapphire Radeon 9800SE 128-bit 4õ1 |
PowerColor Radeon 9800SE 256-bit 4õ1 |
PowerColor Radeon 9800SE 256-bit 8õ1 |
Gun Metal Benchmark 2
At that quite demanding graphics test where pixel shaders 1.1 and vertex shaders 2.0 are used, the cut-down functionality of Sapphire Radeon 9800SE 128-bit makes itself felt through the drastical percentage difference relative to PowerColor ATI Radeon 9800SE 256-bit. The re-make of PowerColor ATI Radeon 9800SE 256-bit gives the PowerColor board substantial advantages.
HALO: Combat Evolved
With the release of new ForceWare 52.16 drivers, the alignment of forces at this real gaming DirectX 9.0 benchmark has turned to the better for NVIDIA. As we see, at both the benchmarks the ASUS V9950 @ 450/850 takes a sure lead. Also note the unprecedented effect produced from enabling 4 additional rendering pipelines.
Half-life 2 Leaked Beta
At Half-Life 2, the situation for NVIDIA is not straightforward at all. On the one hand, there is a certain loss at one of the tests (the results are on the level of Radeon 9800SE 128-bit!). On the other hand, the picture is much better in the other of benchmarks. However, ATI Radeon 9800 Pro takes a lead in the long run at both first and second benchmarks.
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