Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600 256mb video card
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Published: Sep 10, 2003
Author: Niko Lupala
Editor: Amber Lupala
Provider: Sapphire

Closer look


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As I said before no ramsinks on this card, and a fanless heatsink.


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This card comes with a DVI connection and a S-Video connector.

Testing:

We decided to benchmark this card with UT2003, Quake3, 3dmark 2003 and to compare it vs a Leadtek FX5600 card. We are going to test with resolutions from 800*600 up to 1280*1024. Testing was done on the following rig:

AMD XP 2200+
Soyo Kt400 Dragon Platinum
256 crucial DDR
Sapphire Radeon 9600 & Leadtek FX5600
Liteon 16x cd burner
Maxtor 20 gig harddrive

3dmark2003:



Both cards were at mx overclock without any graphic problems or lockups. As we can see the Radeon card is faster in this test. Let's have a look at the next one...

Ut2003:





We are using H]ardOCP UT2k3 Benchmarking utility to benchmark Ut2003 for you. Here we have 2 different benchmarks the Flyby and Botmatch.Again the Radeon card is faster and we could see that the FX card had problems with UT2003 since it was lagging from time to time when big areas came up. We had no problems with lag when benching with the ATI card.

Quake 3:



This is an old game nowadays but still played by alot of people so that's why we decided to use it. The FX card was faster in this test even though we saw no difference when watching the demo. I think though the FX card is faster at Opengl and older games as we saw that it lagged in a new game as UT2003.



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