The Test

We conducted the exact same tests we did in our GeForce FX review, so please refer back to that review for details on how we decided what AA/Aniso settings to compare and why.

Since the focus of this review is the performance of the fastest desktop GPUs available there are a few assumptions we can make, the biggest being that you don't buy a card like the Radeon 9800 Pro to run without Anti-Aliasing or Anisotropic Filtering enabled. For this reason the vast majority of our benchmarks will be focused on the performance with AA/AF enabled, but we will include an abridged set of numbers without those features turned on to be as complete as possible.

Windows XP Professional Test Bed
Hardware Configuration
CPU
Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz (Hyper-Threading Enabled)
Motherboard
Intel D850EMV2
Intel 850E Chipset
RAM
2 x 256MB PC1066 Kingston RIMMs
Sound
None
Hard Drive
120GB Western Digital Special Edition 8MB Cache HDD
Video Cards (Drivers)

ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (128MB) - CATALYST 3.1
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (128MB) - 7.84 Beta Drivers
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 (128MB) - v42.63

ATI's first 0.13-micron GPU - The RV350 Quick Performance Intro (AA/AF Disabled)
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