ATI's Best: All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500 128MB & TV/Capture Card Roundup

Quake III Arena demo four - 1024x768x32 "High Quality" ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500 128MB MSI G3Ti500 Pro-VT (GeForce3 Ti 500) ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500DV ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 32MB DDR Visiontek Xtasy Everything (GeForce2 MX 400) 213.5 212.5 168.2 79 68.3 | 0 | 43 | 85 | 128 | 171 | 214 | 256

By moving to the retail clock speeds of the Radeon 8500 you can see that the performance of the AIW 8500 128MB improves considerably over the original 8500DV. It is necessary to remain competitive should faster cards start offering Personal Cinema versions.

Unreal Performance Test 2002 Build 918 - 1024x768x32 MSI G3Ti500 Pro-VT (GeForce3 Ti 500) ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500 128MB ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500DV ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 32MB DDR Visiontek Xtasy Everything (GeForce2 MX 400) 38.1 35.4 26.7 13.7 11.5 | 0 | 8 | 15 | 23 | 30 | 38 | 46

Unlike what we saw in our latest roundup, the Radeon cards do a lot better in the UPT benchmark. It would seem as if the poor scores in the previous roundup could be attributed to a combination of an older BIOS revision on the EPoX board and the latest ATI drivers. We'll be re-running those scores right away and will update the review accordingly.

Here we see that although the new AIW falls behind the GeForce3 Ti 500 it is the fastest card with a TV Tuner out of the bunch.

Comanche 4 Benchmark - 1024x768x32 High Quality MSI G3Ti500 Pro-VT (GeForce3 Ti 500) ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500 128MB ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500DV Visiontek Xtasy Everything (GeForce2 MX 400) ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 32MB DDR 35.4 32.6 29.8 18.3 16.4 | 0 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 28 | 35 | 42

The situation doesn't change much under Comanche 4. In spite of the price tag you're definitely not getting the fastest gaming card around, but there isn't a single GeForce4 available that can offer the same features as the AIW Radeon 8500.