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External Mfg. Website: PowerColor		Aug 31 2004	C. Sun

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Benchmarks: AquaMark 2.3

AquaMark 2.3 Source: Massive Development

AquaMark is another DirectX 8 benchmark. Using vertex shaders, any card that is DirectX8 compatible will not just have a huge speed boost, the image will also look better. Default test has 24 MB worth of textures.

AquaMark 2.3 - 1024x768

Video Card FPS Ranking

ATi Radeon 9800XT 105.6

ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 105.5

ATi Radeon 9700 Pro

99.3

Asus Radeon A9600XT 74.1

Gigabyte GV-RX60X128V 75.3

MSI RX600XT-TD128 74.2

MSI FX5950 Ultra-TD128 113.9

MSI FX5900U-VTD256 Ultra 111.7

Albatron Trinity PC5900 92.4

Albatron GeForceFX 5700 Ultra 84.1

MSI PCX5750-TD128 64.9

Gigabyte GV-NX57128D 68.6

PowerColor Radeon 9250 29

PowerColor Radeon 9250 (346/221) 30.6

AquaMark 2.3 - 1280x1024

Video Card FPS Ranking

ATi Radeon 9800XT 86.1

ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 81.1

ATi Radeon 9700 Pro

71.2

Asus Radeon A9600XT 47.9

Gigabyte GV-RX60X128V 50.5

MSI RX600XT-TD128 49.6

MSI FX5950 Ultra-TD128 93.1

MSI FX5900U-VTD256 Ultra 89.9

Albatron Trinity PC5900 68.5

Albatron GeForceFX 5700 Ultra 55.8

MSI PCX5750-TD128 41.4

Gigabyte GV-NX57128D 41.4

PowerColor Radeon 9250 18.1

PowerColor Radeon 9250 (346/221) 19.4

AquaMark 2.3 - 1600x1200

Video Card FPS Ranking

ATi Radeon 9800XT 62.3

ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 57.5

ATi Radeon 9700 Pro

50.2

Asus Radeon A9600XT 33.6

Gigabyte GV-RX60X128V 35.6

MSI RX600XT-TD128 35

MSI FX5950 Ultra-TD128 70.2

MSI FX5900U-VTD256 Ultra 67.4

Albatron Trinity PC5900 50.3

Albatron GeForceFX 5700 Ultra 39.7

MSI PCX5750-TD128 29.1

Gigabyte GV-NX57128D 29.3

PowerColor Radeon 9250 12.4

PowerColor Radeon 9250 (346/221)
12.8

The PowerColor Radeon 9250 actually doesn't perform too badly in AquaMark at 1024x768. Higher resolutions are out of the question if you want to have decent frame rates.

Contents of Article: PowerColor Radeon 9250
Pg 1. PowerColor Radeon 9250 Videocard Review Pg 2. Overclocking the card and benchmarks Pg 3. Benchmarks: CodeCreatures Pg 4. — Benchmarks: AquaMark 2.3 Pg 5. Benchmarks: AquaMark 3, Gun Metal 2 Pg 6. Benchmarks: X2: The Threat, UT2003 Pg 7. Benchmarks: Doom 3

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