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ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9800 Pro July 29th, 2003 | by Douglas Hall

Benchmarking was not the boring chore it is with some other graphics cards. Quake 3 arena has traditionally been one of the toughest benchmarks on videos cards since its release, but we realized frame rates to 312 FPS on our Sony big screen, and screen shots were almost impossible.

ChameleonMark Benchmark

Frames-per-second: Longer bars indicate better score

Unreal 2 Benchmark

Frames-per-second: Longer bars indicate better score

Unreal Tournament 2003 Benchmark

Frames-per-second: Longer bars indicate better score

Vulpine GL and Quake 3 Arena Benchmark

Frames-per-second: Longer bars indicate better score

3dMark 2001 Benchmark

These frame rates were unheard of just a few years ago and the technology is moving forward every day. Soon Quake3 Arena will be a low-end benchmark and the future will hold a whole new set of standards. GunMetal appears to be ready to take that position soon. Compared to all the other video cards to date that have passed through this office, this is easily the fastest card we've ever seen.

Test system:

AMD Athlon Barton core(tm) XP 3000+  @ 2.2 GHz
1024 MBs DDR 3200 Corsair XMS @ 333

ASUS A7N8X deluxe ver.2 nForce 2
HDD WD 80 GB w/8MB cache ATA 133
Vantec Stealth 420 W PSU
ViewSonic 21” G810 Monitor

Microsoft Windows XP SP 1
DX ver. 9.0a