ATI Radeon 9600XT (/w NV36)

3DMark 2001 SE v330

Author: MadOnion/Futuremark
DirectX Class: 8.1
Pixel and Vertex Shaders: Yes (Nature test)

So what should we be looking for here, given that we don't have outgoing mid range cards in the graphs? We're looking for competitive performance and no funny performance drop gradients that indicate driver weirdness. 9600XT is obviously in no position to compete with the high end 9800XT used to pad out the graphs, so concentrate on the other two.

With nearly 5GB/sec more memory bandwidth in this DX8.1 class test than the 9600XT, the rival card has a convincing lead at all performance points.

Ever since 3DMark 2001 was released 2 years ago, we've been saying that a score greater than 6000 indicates good overall DX8.1 performance, and we now get that at 1024x768 with 4xAA and 8xAF applied, in the mid range sector.

Just what the doctor ordered.

Notes

I'll use this little notes section at the bottom of each benchmark page to talk about image quality and render issues that may have cropped up. Using 52.16 for the NV36 gives comparatively poor mip stage filtering on the Dragothic low detail test when no texture filtering is applied, alluding to discovery of NVIDIA's apparently less than stellar trilinear filter in these new drivers, but with AF applied, that disappears. It was the only bad IQ spotted.

Review: ATI Radeon 9600XT (/w NV36)

3DMark 2001 SE v330

Notes

MY HEXUS

EVENTS

INDUSTRY PRESS RELEASES