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On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 04:34:09 GMT, "Augustus" <tiberius@weeik.com>
wrote:
>>
>> 55fps (4200) vs 38fps (8500)... a bit of a big difference....? And
>> the 8500LE is more like a 9200... which is around 30fps... but still
>> slightly faster than the 9600SE! (Bwahaha)
>>
>Stats like these depend a hell of a lot from the site you take them. A full
>bore 8500 is the equal of a Ti4200 in many independant bechmarks......
>http://www.slcentral.com/c/h/r/ati/radeon850064/page5.php
>http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/videocards/article.php/3211_1013941__8
>http://www.active-hardware.com/english/reviews/video/radeon-8500-4.htm
>
>Notice in all of these the 8500 is being compared with Ti4400 and 4600
>cards. These do outperform it, but by 10% or less. These also outperform
>the Ti4200 by 10% or so as well. I've owned several variants of the 8500
>series and the best benchmark they're done on my Barton 3200 is 11,512 in
>3DMark01 and 2451 in 3DMark03. This at 300/600 clocks with 3.7 drivers. Show
>me any stats where a Ti4200 beats this by the 25% margin you claim or even
>10%. A Ti4200 that does in excess of 13,000 on 3DMark? They are equivalent
>cards. I have not owned a Ti4200. I doubt if you've owned an 8500. This is
>not relevant to the discussion.
Lets go to this page:
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/videocards/article.php/3211_1013941__6
3DMark is a fine benchmark program, but its still not a "game" But in
the game Quake3, none of the 8500s are able to out-run a GF3-Ti500,
and only slightly faster than the GF3-Ti200. This review is over 2
years old. The GF4 Cards were VERY new and the drivers were not
optimized yet. The Toms Hardware review is more recent.
The the other link you provided:
http://www.active-hardware.com/english/reviews/video/radeon-8500-4.htm
Its not what I would call complete... but it too is also 2 years old
and they are comparing basic games.
The issues of the older Radeon line was drivers that were recently fix
with the R9000 series.
The R8500 continued to LOSE to the GF3 and obviously the GF4Ti cards.
If the 8500 was THAT good in reliability, the Ti4200 would have not
sold as well as it did (a very popular card) and the GF3 and GF2 lines
would have been murdered.
Luckily, the 9700 & 9500 were able to out-run Nvidia in most games.
Still, ATI's weakness is the OpenGl area.
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