Overclocked Performance - Quake III Arena Athlon 750
Overclocking the Radeon when at 640x480 provided for essentially no performance increase. This is most likely a result of immature drivers.
Overclocking Radeon at 800x600 almost alleviates that nagging 16-bit color performance. When overclocked, the Radeon was able to perform 2.2 FPS faster than the card at the default clock speed. Also when overclocked, the Radeon was able to flex its 32-bit power earlier than before. The card at 225/205 was able to beat out all other contenders when at 800x600x32, with a frame rate 103.1 FPS. This shows a 1.7% speed increase over the default clock.
At 1024x768 the Radeon's 16-bit color performance still lags drastically behind the GeForce 2 GTS even when overclocked. It is fortunate, however, that overclocking the card does result in a noticeable increase of 4.8 FPS when in 32-bit color, allowing the overclocked Radeon 64MB DDR to beat the competition by 3.2 FPS.
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Thatguy97 - Tuesday, May 5, 2015 - link
ahh i remember anadtechs jihad against atiwow im dating myself
Frumious1 - Monday, August 29, 2016 - link
I don't remember it at all. The only thing I recall is a bunch of whiny ass fanboys complaining when their chosen CPU, GPU, etc. didn't get massive amounts of acclaim. The very first Radeon cards were good, but they weren't necessarily superior to the competition. You want a good Radeon release, that would be the 9700 Pro and later 9800 Pro -- those beat Nvidia hands down, and AnandTech said as much.