ATI's Radeon 8500 & 7500: A Preview
by Anand Lal Shimpi on August 14, 2001 2:54 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Windows 98 vs. Windows 2000 vs. Windows XP
All of the benchmarks prior to this point were run under Windows 2000, but how does that affect ATI's performance considering their history of having much better Windows 98 drivers?
We ran most of our benchmarks under Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP for the three major cards in this review: ATI's Radeon 8500, NVIDIA's GeForce3 and STMicro's Kyro II. The rest of the cards should have similar results under the various OSes.
The test settings were identical to what we used in the individual game tests before.
|
Windows
98SE
|
Windows
2000 SP2
|
Windows
XP RC2
|
|
|
Serious
Sam
|
|||
| ATI Radeon 8500 |
71.2
|
68.7
|
Crashed
|
| NVIDIA GeForce3 |
84.7
|
85.3
|
79.4
|
| STMicro Kyro II |
41
|
42.1
|
37.8
|
|
Quake
III Arena
|
|||
| ATI Radeon 8500 |
144.9
|
145.4
|
Crashed
|
| NVIDIA GeForce3 |
160.7
|
168.3
|
166
|
| STMicro Kyro II |
70.3
|
71.6
|
70.6
|
|
Half-Life:
Counterstrike
|
|||
| ATI Radeon 8500 |
82.3*
(v-sync enabled)
|
156.8
|
156.7
|
| NVIDIA GeForce3 |
157.8
|
180.8
|
179.8
|
| STMicro Kyro II |
116.8
|
121.7
|
95.0
|
|
UnrealTournament
|
|||
| ATI Radeon 8500 |
95.63
|
72.49*
(v-sync?)
|
72.12
(v-sync?)
|
| NVIDIA GeForce3 |
99.38
|
95.66
|
96.47
|
| STMicro Kyro II |
83.43
|
85.11
|
83.19
|
|
DroneZ
|
|||
| ATI Radeon 8500 |
79.58
|
94
|
Crashed
|
| NVIDIA GeForce3 |
89.96
|
91.1
|
Crashed
|
| STMicro Kyro II |
46.2
|
48.86
|
35.84
|
|
AquaNox
(AquaMark)
|
|||
| ATI Radeon 8500 |
Crashed
|
30.3
|
29.9
|
| NVIDIA GeForce3 |
42.5
|
39.5
|
40.8
|
| STMicro Kyro II |
12.6
|
12.4
|
10.7
|
|
Max
Payne
|
|||
| ATI Radeon 8500 |
62.32
|
62
|
62.95
|
| NVIDIA GeForce3 |
72.02
|
71.35
|
71.23
|
| STMicro Kyro II |
28.57
|
28.8
|
26.2
|
We'd like to commend all three manufacturers: ATI, NVIDIA and STMicro for passing this test with flying colors. For the most part there was a reasonable performance parity between Windows 98, 2000 and XP RC2. There were a few outliers but we were very pleased overall with the performance offered by all three driver sets.
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