ATI Radeon 9800 XT review

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Page 14 - Unreal 2003

Unreal 2003The Unreal Tournament 2003 benchmark is much more modern than Quake III, this is not the Unreal 2003 performance test as used by some other websites, contrary to that, it's based on the demo. imageview.php?image=100

Since the Unreal Tournament 2003 demo is finally out, and available for a free download. You can get it at just about any file download site (link). Be prepared to download 100MB of data though. 

One nice little addition to UT2003 demo is that it has a built-in benchmark utility.  You can find the benchmark in the system subdirectory for the game after it installs.  The file is appropriately named 'benchmark.exe'.  Run this file, select the resolution you want to benchmark, and it will go through 4 different demos, 2 are "flyby" and 2 are "botmatch" demos.  The flyby demos give you an idea of how high frame rates would be without bots, while the botmatch demos give you an idea of what kind of fps you can expect while actually playing the game. The benchmark actually leverages more cpu and graphics intensive technologies that the engine is capable of. First results, FlyBy:

Unreal 2003 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
9600 256 80 62 45 34
FX 5600 73 56 41 33
9600 Pro 89 76 57 43
FX 5700 Ultra 99 81 60 46
9700 Pro 96 91 78 63
5900 100 95 79 63
Blaster5 FX5900 101 95 80 64
9800 Pro 102 98 86 70
FX 5900 Ultra 101 97 87 72
9800 XT 101 97 88 74
FX 5950 Ultra 101 97 88 74

100% the same results between the 9800XT and the 5950U !

Unreal 2003 800x600 1024x768 1280x960 1600x1200
9600 256 43 32 23 13
9600 Pro 55 41 30 17
FX 5600 48 36 25 17
FX 5700 Ultra 68 50 36 25
Blaster5 FX5900 76 58 41 31
FX 5900 76 58 41 31
9700 Pro 76 58 42 32
FX 5900 Ultra 81 65 48 37
9800 Pro 86 97 49 37
FX 5950 Ultra 82 67 49 39
9800 XT 89 72 88 43
Overdrive 89 73 88 43
445/391 91 76 90 45

However with quality settings enabled again the 9800 XT pulls ahead. There's a bug in the drivers for the 1280x960 mode though as AA and AF seemed to be disabled or not functioning properly.

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