The Test

As we've already shown, the Radeon 9700 Pro is noticeably faster than anything else that's currently available; thus we limited our comparison to the GeForce4 Ti 4600 alone.

Because of its close proximity in price, we wanted to include the Matrox Parhelia however with the latest build of UT2003 and the latest Parhelia drivers we could not get our benchmarks to complete. Seeing as how the majority of our benchmark suite depends on UT2003, we had to exclude the Parhelia from this comparison.

Windows XP Professional Test Bed
Hardware Configuration
CPU
Intel Pentium 4 2.53GHz
133.3MHz x 19.0
Motherboard
Intel D850EMV2
Intel 850E Chipset
RAM
4 x 128MB PC1066 Kingston RIMMs
Sound
None
Hard Drive
80GB Maxtor D740X
Video Cards (Drivers)

ATI Radeon 9700 (128MB) - CATALYST 2.2
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 (128MB) - v30.82

The Drivers Unreal Tournament 2003
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  • SlyNine - Sunday, March 28, 2010 - link

    Long live the 9700pro lol.
  • joeh4384 - Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - link

    I remember having a P4 and the all in wonder version of this back in 03.
  • Thatguy97 - Thursday, May 7, 2015 - link

    Best card of all time hands down
  • astrophysicsblackguy - Sunday, May 21, 2017 - link

    Amazing graphics card, plays battlefield 1 flawlessly.
  • Mitty - Friday, April 13, 2018 - link

    Mine was watercooled. ;) God I feel old.
  • EliteRetard - Monday, February 3, 2020 - link

    Continuing the trend of looking back at the good ol' days.

    Considering inflation (vs 2020), this card launched at something like $550.

    I still have one running on an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe w/ a Barton @ 2.6GHz
  • bswalt - Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - link

    That Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe was a legendary motherboard!! Sweet classic build there!!
  • bswalt - Wednesday, October 21, 2020 - link

    So many great memories from my first PC build. What a great video card! Looks so pedestrian in 2020.

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