Overclocking
We
quickly discovered that the Radeon 9700 Pro was an excellent overclocker,
but what about the newcomer Radeon 9500 Pro?
With Powerstrip 3.20 at our disposal we tried to push the Radeon
9500 Pro as far as it could go; our particular sample behaved quite well and
granted us a 27% GPU overclock and 17.6% memory overclock (351/635MHz).
You should note that this may not be representative of the capabilities
of final hardware, but the overclock we attained was within our expectations
for the core.
Overclocked Performance - UT2003
Unreal
Tournament 2003 Retail - Flyby
1024x768 - Maximum Detail |
ATI
Radeon 9500 Pro (351/635)
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro (275/540)
|
|
|
|
0 |
|
33 |
|
65 |
|
98 |
|
131 |
|
163 |
|
196 |
|
|
|
A 12% boost from overclocking at 1024x768 isn't bad at all.
Unreal
Tournament 2003 Retail - Flyby
1280x960 - Maximum Detail |
ATI
Radeon 9500 Pro (351/635)
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro (275/540)
|
|
|
|
0 |
|
23 |
|
47 |
|
70 |
|
93 |
|
117 |
|
140 |
|
|
|
Overclocking the memory comes in handy at higher resolutions
which is why we see an 18% gain here.
Unreal
Tournament 2003 Retail - Flyby
1600x1200 - Maximum Detail |
ATI
Radeon 9500 Pro (351/635)
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro (275/540)
|
|
|
|
0 |
|
15 |
|
31 |
|
46 |
|
62 |
|
77 |
|
93 |
|
|
|
The performance gain finally tops off at 1600x1200 with an 18%
increase due to overclocking, not too shabby.
In very CPU bound situations, increasing the GPU or memory clocks
won't help at all which is why we see relatively no performance difference
in any of the Botmatch scenarios.
Unreal
Tournament 2003 Retail - Botmatch
1024x768 - Maximum Detail |
ATI
Radeon 9500 Pro (351/635)
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro (275/540)
|
|
|
|
0 |
|
12 |
|
24 |
|
36 |
|
48 |
|
60 |
|
72 |
|
|
|
Unreal
Tournament 2003 Retail - Botmatch
1280x960 - Maximum Detail |
ATI
Radeon 9500 Pro (351/635)
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro (275/540)
|
|
|
|
0 |
|
11 |
|
22 |
|
33 |
|
44 |
|
54 |
|
65 |
|
|
|
Unreal
Tournament 2003 Retail - Botmatch
1600x1200 - Maximum Detail |
ATI
Radeon 9500 Pro (351/635)
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro (275/540)
|
|
|
|
0 |
|
8 |
|
16 |
|
24 |
|
32 |
|
39 |
|
47 |
|
|
|
Once again we have a very CPU bound benchmark where overclocking
doesn't buy us much:
163.2
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