Video Card: AIW 9600 Pro Review :: Performance

Author: Benjamin Sun · 11-24-2003 · Category: Hardware - Video Cards
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System Specifications

  • Intel 865 GLC motherboard using 5.00.012 inf files
  • P4 2.8 GHz 533 MHz FSB
  • 512MB DDR400
  • Onboard Sound
  • ATI drivers 3.8
  • 120GB Maxtor UDMA133 HDD
  • Cards tested: AIW 9800 Pro, AIW 9700 Pro, AIW 9600 Pro

Benchmarks used

  • Halo
  • 3dmark 2003
  • Aquamark 3
  • 3dmark 2001 SE
  • Final Fantasy XI Benchmark 2
  • Gunmetal Benchmark 1+2
  • Quake3 Arena

I decided to use the 3 available All In Wonder cards to test performance with. This is to show where the performance fits in with the current offerings of ATI. As I don't have a Personal Cinema based GEFORCE FX card from NVIDIA, and don't feel a comparison with a 5900 Ultra or 5950 to be fair or necessary (as there are no NVIDIA cards with a TV Tuner in this category), I decided to leave NVIDIA cards out of the performance section of the review.

The choice of benchmarks is representative of the benchmarks that we use today. I added Halo because I'm currently playing the game. The other benchmarks are representative of DirectX 8.1/9.0 games that are fairly current with the addition of Quake 3 Arena and 3dmark 2001 SE to give a sense of performance on older benchmarks and games.

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