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The
ATI Rage Fury MAXX
ATI's
New Twin Engine Hot Rod |
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Test System |
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the MAXX |
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Full
Tower ATX Case w/ 300W PS, Pentium3-500E
overclocked to 600 and 750 MHz. (Provided By OutsideLoop
Computers)
Tyan Trinity 400 VIA Apollo Pro PC133
Motherboard, 128MB of EMS PC133 HSDRAM, WD 18G
7200RPM DMA66 Hard Drive, ATI
Rage Fury MAXX ,
Kenwood
72X CDROM, Win98SE, DirectX7, ATI Release Driver |
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| First,
let's look at image quality. The Rage Fury
MAXX supports many of today's latest features
including full 32bit color support, trilinear
filtering, etc. So things should look pretty
sweet. |
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you can see, the Rage Fury MAXX did not
disappoint in this area. Lighting and
colors are rich and textures are crisp. If
only we could just get rid of "Phobos"
. He is getting to be a regular in our
Quake 3 Arena shots! :-) |
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| Benchmarks
With The Rage Fury MAXX |
| Solid
performance |
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| First,
let's look at the Rage Fury MAXX's performance
under Direct 3D applications. |
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Here
the MAXX holds its own very well. It is on
par with GeForce cards with Hardware T&L
enabled! It doesn't quite measure up to a GeForce
DDR with Hardware T&L but it is
definitely in the same league. It even
surpasses the GeForce
DDR with software T&L. In a word,
IMPRESSIVE.
Let's
move on to a real-world D3D game...
Forsaken
Ship Demo
Although
this game is getting to be a little dated at
this point, we still feel it is a very stable
platform in measuring overall D3D performance.
Here
the Rage Fury MAXX makes another strong
showing. However, it is not quite at the
same level as a GeForce SDR card in this test.
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Quake
Rattle and Roll - Quake 3 Arena Scores and Final
Analysis |
