Fall 2003 Video Card Roundup Part I - ATI's Radeon 9800 XT
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on October 1, 2003 3:02 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
F1 Challenge ’99-‘02
We’ve had plenty of requests to benchmark with a racing simulation. When we were designing the new testing suit this was one of the first games that came to mind. The game is faced paced, has lots of graphics options, and could keep someone who is into F1 racing busy for weeks at a time. Combine all of that with a nice replay feature and we have a very useful benchmark. We just ran a lap at Australia and counted the framerate of the replay via FRAPS while following one of the drivers in the middle of the pack.
In this bench, everyone seems to being doing really well with the exception of the two lowest end cards. It seems very clear that this test is CPU bound, and we are looking forward to benching some CPUs with this game (as well as trying to push the highend cards with some higher resolution tests). There really is no clear winner, but NV38 does come out at the top of the pile.
When we flip the filter switch, the 9800 XT drops the least in frame rate, and takes a clear lead over NV38 and the 9800 Pro. Usually NVIDIA is the camp gaining the most ground after AA and AF are enabled, but it is very much worth noting that in this benchmark (and others we will point out later) AA and AF didn't really seem to work as well on the NVIDIA cards as it did on the ATI cards. There was some difference between the two, but we will have to do more research into this area before we can bring forth anything conclusive.
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Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - link
For all the people complaining about the cheat-y Dets, remember that Part 2 will be Image Quality based.. that's when you'll get your licks in.Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - link
#120, i said almost the exact same thing back in post #6 :PAnonymous User - Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - link
I'd like to see both 45.23 and Det 50s for nV cards. Also, yeah, serious CPU limit here.Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - link
Ummm wtf are you using 1024x768 for?! Did you not notice the scores being so close. Especially when 9600 is close to 9800xt. Omg. What crap. Use 1290x960 or 1600x1200 AT LEAST IN ADDITION to 1024 by 768. Almost all of the graphs look cpu limited.How about we at least TRY to stress the 500$ cards next time OK???
And use the non cheating Detonators next time too will you? As in 43.30 or whatever they are. I want to see how bad the nv38 burns when you take out the cheats.
Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - link
Stay off my machine you moron!Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - link
Hi, my name is Bigshot and I wanna say I love your review! I think we now know that Nvidiot will be gone soon and it will be great just to have ATI!ATI! All the way!
ATI Rocks! and if you love Nvidia like I love my ATI watch out man!
Did you see the new Heat freakin sinks on the 9800XT? Did you see the cool flame job on them?
ATI!
Keep up the great work Anad!
ATI rocks them all! I should know.
Cause I got me one!
Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - link
I guess this is all an early (or late) April Fools... Well, in Fact exactly 1/2 a year (6 months) later...Wow, 2 fools in a Year ! Great !!
Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - link
http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTA2NDg1OT...ALL DX9 games are OVER for NVIDIA !!!! PERIOD
Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - link
FS2004 is a DX8 game!Anonymous User - Wednesday, October 1, 2003 - link
FS2004 has the abilty to save a flight that can be used as a canned demo for benchmarking, variables like ATC must be turned off.FS2004 loads settings according to your hardware and it is up to the tester to make sure that ALL settings are identical. As the numbers indicate that was not done.
I would know, I watched the FS2004 GPU race in SD last month and something is very wrong with those posted in this review, ATI 9600 beats 5900-Ultra? LOL!!!
Please get some help!