Benchmarking
Now that the multimedia aspect of the AIW 9600XT has been examined, there's the 3D gaming performance to look at. To see how well this video card stacked against what's out on the market, use of a nVidia GeForce FX 5700 Ultra was used as an equivalent mid range video card. Other system specs include:
| Video Card |
ATI AIW 9600XT |
nVidia GeForce FX 5700 Ultra |
| Processor |
AMD Athlon 2800+ |
AMD Athlon 2800+ |
| Motherboard |
Leadtek K7NCR18D Pro II |
Leadtek K7NCR18D Pro II |
| RAM |
Corsair TwinX 2x 256MB PC-3200 |
Corsair TwinX 2x 256MB PC-3200 |
| Hard Drive |
2 Seagate Barracuda SATA 80GB |
2 Seagate Barracuda SATA 80GB |
| Video Drivers |
ATI Catalyst 4.6 |
nVidia ForceWare 56.72 |
| Chipset Drivers |
nVidia Unified Driver 4.24 |
nVidia Unified Driver 4.24 |
Additional software included Windows XP Professional with SP1 and all the updates installed, as well as DirectX 9.0b.
Onward to the results of the bechmarks.
