ATI Radeon 9700 Pro - Delivering as Promised
by Anand Lal Shimpi on August 19, 2002 8:00 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Memory Controller & Synthetic Performance Tests
ATI was the first to introduce significant occlusion culling technology for the early rejection of pixels that won't be seen by the user before they are rendered. In order to test this we dusted off Villagemark, a benchmark with an incredible amount of occluded pixels that shouldn't be rendered if your GPU is smart enough to realize that.
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119A number of factors contribute to the Radeon 9700 Pro's 47% performance advantage here, but a good chunk of the performance improvement does come from HyperZ III. NVIDIA will have their chance to answer with NV30 later this year.
For synthetic performance we chose 3DMark 2001SE with the latest 330 patch applied. We don't put much weight on the 3DMark tests but we can get some useful information out of them:
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3DMark
Score @ 1024x768
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Multitextured
Fill rate (MTexels/s)
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High
Polygon Count - 1 Lights (MTriangles/s)
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High
Polygon Count - 8 Lights (MTriangles/s)
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EMBM
(fps)
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DOT3
(fps)
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Vertex
Shader (fps)
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Pixel
Shader (fps)
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Advanced
Shader (fps)
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Point
Sprites (MSprites/s)
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| ATI Radeon 9700 Pro |
13963
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2531.7
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70.0
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14.9
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182.7
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193.0
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185.4
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183.0
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189.4
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37.0
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| NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 |
11618
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2321.8
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52.4
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12.6
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136.5
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152.2
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102.1
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123.2
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88.8
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30.3
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Because of the fact that the Radeon 9700 Pro only has one texture unit per pipeline, the multitextured fillrate is virtually identical to that of a GeForce4 Ti 4600. What's important to note here are the Radeon 9700 Pro's advantages in polygon throughput and in the pixel shader tests as well.
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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 downastrophysicsblackguy - 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.