Jedi Knight II
This game has been around for quite awhile, but still has very nice graphics, thanks to the Quake III engine, and a good story behind it. This makes it one very nice game and a standard game for testing on many websites. We will look at its performance with all the settings at maximum and using the included timedemo. So does the AiW perform very well here, or is it just a jack of all trades, master of none video card? Lets first look at 1024*768
Here we see the driver quality of the cards we tested. In an odd twist the overclocked AiW 9000 performs worse than its standard clocked brother. The nVidia based video cards have the best driver, at least with this software. Next is the ATi chips, which have a larger performance difference between them. In the last place beside the overclocked AiW 9000, is the Matrox Parhelia which performs adequately in this test. What happens when the quality levels are turned up with AA and ansiotropic filtering being enabled?
Here is where there is a marked difference between the higher end cards and the lower end cards. The Ti4600-8X holds the top spot without losing much in the way of performance. The Radeon AiW 9000 doesn't perform as well as one of its direct competitors, the GF4 MX 440. Here it is about 5-8fps lower than the MX card, though in this case it doesn't mean as much as in some cases but it is still 12.5-21.5% slower than the MX. This can mean the difference between playable or not, though both cards have a minimum frame rate that is similar, at about 30fps. At default clock speed the 8500LE is slightly faster than the 9000 by about 4% or 1.5fps, which isn't much at all. When we overclock the video card we get a 8% increase in frame rate for a 9% increase in core speed and a 11% increase in memory speed. How about at 1600*1200, how does the card perform?
The standings change compared to the other two tests so far. Apart from the GF4 Ti4600-8X, which still holds the top spot most things change. The Radeon 8500LE takes the top spot of the remaining cards, and also has one of the flatter graphs of these results, as it seems that the extra pipeline gives the 8500 the advantage. The overclocked AiW 9000, is only slightly slower than the 8500LE and is faster and has a minimum frame rate higher than the MX 440. When you overclock the AiW 9000 you get another 9% increase, just as with the AA test.
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ATI All-In-Wonder 9000 Pro: ATi has been making the AiW series for the last several years. Today's review will look at one of ATi's latest but not necessarily fastest All-in-Wonder video card.
