ATI's Radeon 9600 Pro - Another Win for ATI

Anti-Aliasing Performance

As we mentioned at the start of this article, the Radeon 9600 Pro and GeForce FX 5600 Ultra have very similar AA modes in terms of image quality, and thus comparing one vendor's 2X to the other's is valid.

Unreal Tournament 1024x768 - 2X AA NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 ATI Radeon 9500 Pro NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra ATI Radeon 9600 Pro ATI Radeon 9500 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 128.2 116.2 108.5 108.1 89.8 89.8 | 0 | 26 | 51 | 77 | 103 | 128 | 154

Despite the improvements to the RV350 core that are specifically tailored to improving AA performance, the Radeon 9600 Pro cannot outperform the Radeon 9500 Pro. The GeForce FX 5600 Ultra continues to be on-par with the Radeon 9600 Pro.

Unreal Tournament 1024x768 - 4X AA ATI Radeon 9500 Pro ATI Radeon 9600 Pro NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 ATI Radeon 9500 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 95.7 89.8 87.6 76.8 75.1 52.8 | 0 | 19 | 38 | 57 | 77 | 96 | 115

Although the Radeon 9600 Pro and GeForce FX 5600 Ultra swap positions, the overall picture doesn't change much with 4X AA enabled.