ATI's Radeon 9600 Pro - Another Win for ATI

Anisotropic Filtering Performance

Although this very well could change with updated drivers, for now here's how the image quality stacks up when anisotropic filtering is taken into account:

• ATI's Performance mode is significantly better than NVIDIA's Performance mode
• ATI's Quality mode is slightly better than NVIDIA's Quality mode

Unreal Tournament 1024x768 - 8X Performance Aniso ATI Radeon 9500 Pro NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra ATI Radeon 9600 Pro ATI Radeon 9500 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 146.5 116.9 110.2 81.1 64.3 51.5 | 0 | 29 | 59 | 88 | 117 | 147 | 176

The GeForce FX 5600 Ultra manages to achieve a 6% performance lead here, but once you take into account that the Radeon 9600 Pro offers much higher image quality that 6% advantage becomes even more insignificant.

Unreal Tournament 1024x768 - 8X Quality Aniso ATI Radeon 9500 Pro ATI Radeon 9600 Pro NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 ATI Radeon 9500 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 114.9 85.7 78.4 64.2 63.3 51.5 | 0 | 23 | 46 | 69 | 92 | 115 | 138

The advantage shifts towards the Radeon 9600 Pro here, but looking at the Radeon 9500 Pro's performance puts all the newcomers to shame.