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Ever since ATi released their Radeon 9700 Pro VPU in the summer of 2002 they've taken control of the graphics card markets.
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Benchmarks: Gun Metal 2

Gun Metal 2 Source: Yeti Studio

Gun Metal 2 is one of the first games that will be taking advantage of DirectX 9 technology. According to Gun Metal 2, 2x AA is enabled by default on all videocards and the listed framerates are average.

Gun Metal 2 Demo 1 1024x768

Video Card FPS Ranking

1.
ATi Radeon 9700 Pro
20.08

2. MSI G4Ti4600-TD N/A

3. MSI G4MX440-T8X N/A

4. Albatron GeForceFX 5200P N/A

5. Albatron GeForceFX 5600P Turbo 10.9

6. Albatron GeForceFX 5200 Ultra 9.97

7. Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro 12.89

8. Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro (490/682) 15.61

Gun Metal 2 Demo 2 1024x768

Video Card FPS Ranking

1.
ATi Radeon 9700 Pro
25.82

2. MSI G4Ti4600-TD N/A

3. MSI G4MX440-T8X N/A

4. Albatron GeForceFX 5200P N/A

5. Albatron GeForceFX 5600P Turbo 13.56

6. Albatron GeForceFX 5200 Ultra 12.53

7. Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro 16.73

8. Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro (490/682) 19.71

Gun Metal 2 is one of the first games to take advantage of DirectX9 features and here we see that no card is really gamable. Still the Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro performs quite a bit faster then the GeForceFX 5600 class videocard.

Gun Metal 2 Demo 1 1600x1200

Video Card FPS Ranking

1.
ATi Radeon 9700 Pro
12.18

2. MSI G4Ti4600-TD N/A

3. MSI G4MX440-T8X N/A

4. Albatron GeForceFX 5200P N/A

5. Albatron GeForceFX 5600P Turbo 7.73

6. Albatron GeForceFX 5200 Ultra 7.15

7. Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro 7.56

8. Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro (490/682) 10.64

Gun Metal 2 Demo 2 1600x1200

Video Card FPS Ranking

1.
ATi Radeon 9700 Pro
15.18

2. MSI G4Ti4600-TD N/A

3. MSI G4MX440-T8X N/A

4. Albatron GeForceFX 5200P N/A

5. Albatron GeForceFX 5600P Turbo 9.06

6. Albatron GeForceFX 5200 Ultra 8.25

7. Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro 9.14

8. Gigabyte Radeon 9600 Pro (490/682) 11.64

As the resolution gets turned up the 9600 Pro starts to become bandwidth bottlenecked.

Contents of Article: Gigabyte GV-R96P128D

Pg 1. Gigabyte GV-R96P128D Radeon 9600 Pro Videocard
Pg 2. Overclocking and Benchmarks
Pg 3. Benchmarks: 3DMark2001SE, 3DMark03
Pg 4. Benchmarks: AquaMark 2.3
Pg 5. Benchmarks: Comanche 4
Pg 6. — Benchmarks: Gun Metal 2
Pg 7. Benchmarks: Quake III Arena
Pg 8. Benchmarks: UT2003
Pg 9. Benchmarks: 3DMark2001, QIII Arena w/AA
Pg 10. Benchmarks: 3DMark2001, QIII Arena w/AF, AA+AF
Pg 11. Definitely an awesome value!

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