Overclocked Performance - Quake III Arena Athlon 750 (cont)
As suspected, boosting the speed of the Radeon added for a nice performance increase. Still rather slow in 16-bit color, the overclocked Radeon is able to topple the GeForce 2 GTS to an even greater extent when in 32-bit color. The resulting 55.3 FPS when in Quake III Arena demo001 allowed for the overclocked Radeon 64MB DDR to go 11.9% (5.9 FPS) faster than the previous king of the hill: the GeForce 2 GTS 64MB DDR.
1600x1200x32 by far shows the largest performance increase that the Radeon experiences. 16-bit color is lagging, but the overclocked card's 32-bit performance is anything but slow. The card performed 3.7 (10.5%) faster than the GeForce 2 GTS 64MB.
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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.