ATI Mobility Radeon 9000: Raising the bar again

Serious Sam 2

Serious Sam 2 Little Trouble @ 800x600x32 Mobility Radeon 9000 64MB GeForce4 440 Go 64MB 64.9 62.6 | 0 | 13 | 26 | 39 | 52 | 65 | 78

Serious Sam 2 Little Trouble @ 1024x768x32 Mobility Radeon 9000 64MB GeForce4 440 Go 64MB 46.7 43.2 | 0 | 9 | 19 | 28 | 37 | 47 | 6

Serious Sam 2 Little Trouble @ 1280x1024x32 Mobility Radeon 9000 64MB GeForce4 440 Go 64MB 30.6 28.8 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 24 | 31 | 37

The Serious Sam 2: Little Trouble benchmark proved to output some interesting results. Similar to the situation encountered in the Antalus and Citadel Unreal Tournament 2003 demo, the Mobility Radeon 9000 out performed the GeForce4 440 Go anywhere from 4% to 8%. Given the fact that we saw performance increases of around 25% in many instances in Unreal Tournament 2003 and the fact that the Jedi Knight 2 performance of the card was substantially better, we really can't understand why the Serious Sam 2 performance does not mirror our other results. We suspect that it could be a driver problem specific to the system we were using (which is a notebook that is not yet ready for mass production). It could also be with the way that Serious Sam is rendering the game with the extreme quality settings. Hopefully future testing of the product will yield the answer.