ATI's Radeon 9600 Pro - Another Win for ATI

AA + Anisotropic Filtering Performance

With the Radeon 9600 Pro/GeForce FX 5600 Ultra class of cards, enabling AA and anisotropic filtering isn't always an option as it is on the high-end GPUs simply because the performance hit is sometimes too great. For this reason we focused on two particular modes to benchmark, a high performance mode and a high image quality mode; the high performance mode used only 2X AA and performance anisotropic filtering, while the high quality mode used 4X AA and the quality anisotropic filtering setting.

Unreal Tournament 1024x768 - 2X AA + 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 108.3 97.2 90.6 70.1 57.6 44.8 | 0 | 22 | 43 | 65 | 87 | 108 | 130

Unreal Tournament 1024x768 - 4X AA + 8X Quality Aniso ATI Radeon 9500 Pro ATI Radeon 9600 Pro NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra ATI Radeon 9500 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600 NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 77.3 64.2 59.1 49.8 47.3 35.5 | 0 | 15 | 31 | 46 | 62 | 77 | 93

The standings continue to be what we've been seeing all along, with the Radeon 9600 Pro and GeForce FX 5600 Ultra performing very closely to one another and the Radeon 9500 Pro doing better than them all.