Drivers and test system
Drivers & Testing performance
We will be testing the card with the latest official drivers available namely Catalyst revision 3.2 with the newer display driver version.
The drivers look and feel just like the older Catalyst driver releases which you are used to however with two changes that are Radeon 9800 specific. The first one is the quality/performance antialiasing settings, you can choose 2X, 4X or 6X multi-sampled AA modes from the control panel.
The other change is that we noticed new performance/quality options for anisotropic filtering up to 16x. Here's an overview of driver properties.
In the next pages you'll notice the benchmarks and test we ran.
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All tests where made in 32 bit colors in resolutions ranging from 800x600 pixels up-to the Godfather of all gaming resolutions, the 1600x1200 several performance/quality settings.
