Monday, April 10, 2000

Tests Results (continued)

Suddently, in an environment loaded with heavy textures and driven by Direct 3D, we see the ATI Rage Fury MAXX to take the lead. This D3D game optimised for SSE and 3Dnow including T&L as well as a bunch of technological refinemnts, is very tough on graphic cards and it is for all these reasons that we used it.

We really can see here that the ATI Rage Fury MAXX is taking a much better advantage of DirectX 7 under high resolution modes in the 32-bit color mode under D3D than the GeForce 256...

Wow, the ATI Rage Fury MAXX is really flying high here...

Apparently, the Rage Fury MAXX D3D drivers are really very well optimized for the 32-bit color mode when using high resolutions. Note that the Rage Fury MAXX almost double the performances of the GeForce 256 SDR that we used.

Conclusion

Even if the Rage Fury MAXX is as expensive as the GeForce 256 DDR graphic card, the Rage Fury MAXX offers as much and even better performances, at least under D3D environments. Against all odds, ATI is betting on the fact that as time passes by, games will be using more heavier textures and will be relying more on DirectX 7 new functionalities as well as Direct 3D new features. As these new technologies, high graphic resolutions of 1024 X 768 and above, as well as 32-bit color mode, are requiring more graphic processing power from the graphic card and it is precisely where the Rage Fury MAXX is doing good. Thus, you now have the choice to choose a graphic card faster with older technologies used in games such has Quake2 or to go for a graphic card especially enhanced for the new technologies of the next generation of games to be launched during the course of this year and in the future. As far as OpenGL drivers are concerned, we can only hope for some enhancements for those of the Rage Fury MAXX for more punch in older games.

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