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Let's look at the fundamentals
with Id's Quake 3 Arena and various high resolution time
demo runs.
With this latest
round of high end accelerators, there is no need to settle
for anything less than high resolutions and 32 bit color.
Our two GeForce4 Ti 4600 boards, including the Leadtek A250
Ultra TD, burn through this test run with ease and leave the
Radeon 8500 in the dust.
Anti-Aliasing
Tests:
The GeForce4 Ti
4600 was designed from the ground up with high resolution
anti-aliasing in mind. Here we see both Ti 4600 cards
post impressive high frame rates right on up through a
totally playable 4X mode at 1280X1024. As you can see,
the Quincunx mode scores are identical to 2X mode
performance. Again, the Radeon 8500 is really out of
its league here with the only playable frame rates in 2X
mode. We're really spoiled these days aren't we?
It is as if 1280X1024 with 2X AA isn't pretty enough!
Anisotropic
Filtering:
However, let's look at
anisotropic filtering performance. We know that NVIDIA
has some work to do here and this is also an area that seems
to be ATi's current strong suit.
Efficiency, that
is the word that best describes this picture. On one
hand, we see the negligible impact that aniso filtering has
on the Radeon 8500 scores versus the same AA mode and
resolution without 32 tap anisotropic filtering.
However, invoking 32 tap aniso filtering on the GeForce 4
Ti4600 results in a massive 50+ frames per second drop.
Obviously, the Radeon 8500 is far more efficient here with
anisotropic filtering. Regardless, the trend continues
with the GeForce4 Ti 4600 on top by a large margin.
The Leadtek Winfast A250 Ultra TD specifically, shows
identical performance to the reference NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti
4600 card.
Let's get
serious... pun intended.
Serious Sam and Chameleon Mark |
