Gigabyte ATi Radeon8500 AP64D-H Review (3)

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Gigabyte ATi Radeon8500 AP64D-H Review (3)
Overclocker 18 Mar 2002

Benchmarking

We conduct the a number of tests on the setup with the following configuration :

Test System:

Intel Pentium 4 1.5G Engineering Sample
ECS L4S5A SiS645 mainboard running 100/166 async mode
IBM 15G 7200RPM ATA100 HD
AOPEN 40X CDROM
MSI Geforce4 Ti5700 Graphics card w/Detonator driver 27.20
ATi 8500 w/4.13.9017
Nanya DDR333 256MB DDR
Channelwell 375W AMD Approved PSU

VillageMark

This benchmark comes from PowerVR and is meant to show the benefits of the tile render architecture over the classic method used by most other chips. Let's see how this benchmark will perform for both ATi Radeon8500, nVIDIA Ti4600 and GF3 Ti200.

A difference of 29.7% between the two cards. The MSI GF4 Ti4600 scores much better than the ATi Radeon 8500. When we overclock the Radeon, the difference is 15%. Comparing it to GF3 Ti200, the difference is quite substantial. The Radeon8500 is 2x faster than the GF3 Ti200 according to Villagemark.