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Just as we
saw in the overclocking tests, the 3D Prophet 8500 is
outperformed by ATI's own reference design. Though
Hercules is working on a BIOS fix for the performance
discrepancy, what you see here is what you'd get, with the
latest 7.72 drivers from ATI. No matter though, Abit's
Siluro Ti 4200 beats both cards and can be found for about
$30 less than the ATI cards.
Anti-Aliasing
Tests:
Each
manufacturer uses different techniques for anti-aliasing, so
I've shied away from directly comparing results between
different manufacturers. The memory timing issue of
the 3D Prophet is again apparent, as the ATI reference card
does quite a bit better, especially at 2x anti-aliasing.
Anisotropic
Filtering:
Anisotropic
filtering has also become the topic of controversy, as ATI's
own techniques are being questioned and or praised,
depending on who you are talking to. Again, I don't
feel that it is necessarily appropriate to compare different
methods with regard solely to performance. Drawing
conclusions about the 3D Prophet versus ATI's reference
design, is a different story though. Hercules' card is
again beat in both 4-tap and 16-tap filtering. We can
only hope these issues can be resolved with a new BIOS.
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