ATI Radeon Xpress 200: Performance, PCI Express & DX9 for Athlon 64
by Wesley Fink on November 8, 2004 6:00 AM EST- Posted in
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ATI Bullhead: General Performance and Encoding
nVidia performs much better in the Winstone benchmarks - a pattern we have seen for some time. Compared to VIA and now ATI, nVidia enjoys about a 6% to 8% advantage in Multimedia Content Creation and Business Winstone. This is likely the result of nVidia's heavily optimized IDE drivers for their chipsets, as we started seeing this pattern beginning with nForce2. To be completely competetive with nVidia, ATI needs to do further work on their chipset driver performance.
PCMark 2004 and Media Encoding with AutoGK results are the same with both chipsets.
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kogase - Monday, November 8, 2004 - link
Eh... I don't think the boards are kicking Intel's ass. A64 is.fuzzynavel - Monday, November 8, 2004 - link
I didn't realise that the nforce4 and ATI mobos...kicked intels ass so badly!! Not bad for a first attempt....just avoid the integrated graphics and it all looks sweetDenial - Monday, November 8, 2004 - link
This is nice and all, but I'm not uprading until dual cores are out. The difference between my home PC (P4 2.8) and office workstation (dual 2.66 xeons) is night and day. It's at the point that my home PC drives me nuts when one process brings everything else to a halt (all the more frustrating when it's something like explorer running amok). I've absolutely had it with single CPU's, no more!VaultDweller - Monday, November 8, 2004 - link
The tables on pages 10 and 11 both list Halo as the first benchmark, but the review text on page 10 refers to a 14.4% gain in 'Quake 3.' According to the table, that 14.4% was for Halo.MAME - Monday, November 8, 2004 - link
sweet