ATI's Radeon 9800, 9600 & 9200: Still Fighting Strong

The Test

We conducted the exact same tests we did in our GeForce FX review, so please refer back to that review for details on how we decided what AA/Aniso settings to compare and why.

Since the focus of this review is the performance of the fastest desktop GPUs available there are a few assumptions we can make, the biggest being that you don't buy a card like the Radeon 9800 Pro to run without Anti-Aliasing or Anisotropic Filtering enabled. For this reason the vast majority of our benchmarks will be focused on the performance with AA/AF enabled, but we will include an abridged set of numbers without those features turned on to be as complete as possible.