Quake III Arena quaver.dm3 - Pentium III 550E
Once again representing our lower-end systems we have the Pentium III 550E running Quaver. The cards are able to handle the complex Quaver demo without too much trouble when at 640x480. One thing to note is how poorly previous ATI cards performed when in 32-bit color. My, how times have changed
The Radeon, with its OpenGL texture compression (S3TC compatible), is not able to keep up as well as when in higher resolutions, as the card performs around the level of a GeForce DDR. The card is easily toppled in 16-bit color, as we have found in previous tests.
The Radeon beings to shine a bit when at 1024x768x32, however it does not do as well comparatively as when in the Athlon system. The Radeon performs slightly slower than the GeForce 2 GTS when in 32-bit color but lags once again in 16-bit color.
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Thatguy97 - Tuesday, May 5, 2015 - link
ahh i remember anadtechs jihad against atiwow im dating myself
Frumious1 - Monday, August 29, 2016 - link
I don't remember it at all. The only thing I recall is a bunch of whiny ass fanboys complaining when their chosen CPU, GPU, etc. didn't get massive amounts of acclaim. The very first Radeon cards were good, but they weren't necessarily superior to the competition. You want a good Radeon release, that would be the 9700 Pro and later 9800 Pro -- those beat Nvidia hands down, and AnandTech said as much.