ATI Radeon 9800SE Video Card Review
Image quality - AntiAliasing 4x
Image quality – Anisotropic Filtering 8x
Image quality – Anisotropic Filtering 4x + Anisotropic Filtering 8x
We have already reviewed the performance for AA and AF. Again we note the faster AA in similarly positioned NVIDIA and ATI video cards as well as approximate parity both in the AF mode and in the most demanding mode with Aniso and AA simultaneously enabled.
Image Quality – AntiAliasing 6x/8x + Anisotropic Filtering 8x/16x
In our new mode of testing the image quality with the maximum possible details, we note a leadership of PowerColor Radeon 9800SE 256-bit with 8 rendering pipelines enabled.
Final Words
The considered two varieties of boards on the base of ATI Radeon 9800SE vividly demonstrated that not all SE cards are equally useful. The Sapphire card based on the ATI Radeon 9800SE chip using the PCB design of ATI Radeon 9500 Pro at all of the tests shows an essentially lower performance than in the 256-bit version of ATI Radeon 9800SE by PowerColor. The purchase of a card based on the PCB of ATI Radeon 9500 Pro can be recommended only in case the price is substantially lower than that for the "right" ATI Radeon 9800SE based on the PCB of ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. Fortunately, vendors of Radeon 9800SE cards begin to specify what exactly a product is there at the warehouse and are not trying to sell "a pig in a poke".
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