WHAT'S IN THE BOX
The ATI Radeon 9000 Pro comes with a manual, a driver CD, SVHS to composite connector, and DVI to VGA connector. The design of the card is the same as all the other Radeon cards, with a black GPU HSF, hynix DDR and a green board.
INSTALLATION AND SETUP
Installation of the card was easy. The form factor is small compared to the
GeForce4 TI4600 and doesn't take up too much room. Windows XP Pro automatically recognized the card as a default video card and I proceeded to install Catalyst 2.2 drivers. After a quick restart, the card was ready for some serious benchmarking.
Now let's look at the test system and the all important benchmarks!
AMD XP 2000 1.67GHz
Gigabyte 7VRXP
512MB Corsair PC3000 DDR
WD800BB 80GB 7200RPM
Catalyst 2.2 Drivers
Windows XP Professional SP1
THE COMPETITION
ATI Radeon 8500 128/
64MB DDR
ATI's Radeon 8500 is reliable high-end graphics card most notably used by graphic artists. One note before we continue, there are currently 2 versions of the Radeon 8500 series, 128MB and 64MB.
Matrox Parhelia-512 128MB DDR
Matrox's newest GPU recently is put to the test with its new drivers.
nVidia GeForce 4 TI4200
The most powerful competitor is the Ti4200. This is nVidia's value high-end GeForce 4 card.
nVidia GeForce 4 MX
The most obvious competitor is the MX440. This is nVidia's value low-end GeForce 4 card. The Xabre 400 is supposedly its replacement.
nVidia GeForce 3
This old school GPU still packs a punch in many 3D scenarios.
ECS Xabre 400
Newest ECS video card for GeForce 4 MX replacement.
TESTS PERFORMED
3Dmarks2001SE Pro
Quake3 v1.17 Timedemo Demo001
Comanche 4 Benchmark Demo
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