Quake III Arena quaver.dm3 - Pentium III 550E (cont)
The Radeon is able to keep up with its competitor when at 16-bit color at 1280x1024, however the card does not nearly reach the same margin of performance as the GeForce 2 GTS based cards. Tables turn, as usual, when the game is running in 32-bit color, with the Radeon performing 9.7% faster than the GeForce 2 GTS, a full 4.2 FPS faster. This performance margin is dropped, however, when compared with the GeForce 2 GTS 64MB, where the Radeon only performed 2.5% faster (1.2 FPS).
Although few play at 1600x1200x32, the Radeon really shows its stuff here. 16-bit color performance in this mode is weak, once again, but 32-bit performance is as strong as expected. 34.9 FPS makes the Radeon the fastest card at 1600x1200x32.
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Thatguy97 - Tuesday, May 5, 2015 - link
ahh i remember anadtechs jihad against atiwow im dating myself
Frumious1 - Monday, August 29, 2016 - link
I don't remember it at all. The only thing I recall is a bunch of whiny ass fanboys complaining when their chosen CPU, GPU, etc. didn't get massive amounts of acclaim. The very first Radeon cards were good, but they weren't necessarily superior to the competition. You want a good Radeon release, that would be the 9700 Pro and later 9800 Pro -- those beat Nvidia hands down, and AnandTech said as much.