Review - FIC A95P Radeon 9500 Pro 128 MB

Review by Edward Chang, call sign: Big_E

May 12, 2003

3DGaming Benchmarks:

-3DMark2003

The A95P and Radeon 9700 Pro distance themselves from the GeForce4 Titanium. Video Processing Units like the Radeon 9500/9700 core are superior to last generation of graphics processing units. 3DMark03 takes advantage of this new technology.

-3DMark2001 Second Edition

The last generation 3DMark2001 does not benefit from the presence of a VPU. Regardless of this, the FIC Radeon 9500 Pro performs ideally, scoring right between a GF4 Ti4400 and Ti4600.

-Unreal Tournament 2003

-Return to Castle Wolfenstein

Apparently, either OpenGL or the Quake3 engine is in Nvidia's favor as the GeForce4s are all able to beat the Radeon 9500 Pro at High Quality graphic settings.

-Nvidia TreeMark

Nvidia made TreeMark to show the processing power of hardware Transform & Lighting. The Complex 8 demo, as the name denotes, has 8 light sources and the highest level of complexity. Here, the A95P is neck-to-neck against the GF4 Ti4400.

-Comanche4 Demo

Comanche4 is the most CPU dependent of our suite of benchmarks. The Radeon 9500 Pro tackles its opponents.

-Nvidia ChameleonMark

Nvidia's ChameleonMark is a pixel shader test. The new Radeon 9500 Pro clobbers Nvidia with record-breaking results.