ATI’s Radeon 9700 (R300) – Crowning the New King

Jedi Knight 2

Jedi Knight 2 'demo jk2ffa' 1024x768x32 Normalized to GeForce4 Ti 4600 GeForce4 Ti 4600 (128MB) ATI Radeon 9700 (128MB) Matrox Parhelia (128MB) 1.00 0.98 0.61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1

We've known Jedi Knight 2 to be a very CPU bound benchmark, and thus the Radeon 9700 scores approximately on-par with a GeForce4 Ti 4600. Even the NV30 will perform the same as these two parts here.

Jedi Knight 2 'demo jk2ffa' 1280x1024x32 Normalized to GeForce4 Ti 4600 GeForce4 Ti 4600 (128MB) ATI Radeon 9700 (128MB) Matrox Parhelia (128MB) 1.00 0.99 0.55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1

There's no change at 1280x1024, it's pretty sad when a 2.4GHz Pentium 4 can't feed these cards data quick enough to avoid it becoming the bottleneck.

Jedi Knight 2 'demo jk2ffa' 1600x1200x32 Normalized to GeForce4 Ti 4600 ATI Radeon 9700 (128MB) GeForce4 Ti 4600 (128MB) Matrox Parhelia (128MB) 1.10 1.00 0.51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0

Finally at 1600x1200 the Radeon 9700 begins to pull away, with a 10% lead. This is a situation where 4X AA would help as the Radeon 9700 has performance to burn at this point.