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3D Mark 2003
There was a lot of controversy when Futuremark released their latest version of 3D Mark. We here at VL prefer to place emphasis on real-world benchmarks, but I am aware that many people still like nice round numbers from running this benchmark.
3D Mark 2003, No AA, No AF
3D Mark 2003, 6xAA, 16xAF
After a year of seeing five digits 3D Mark scores, it was quite a knock back down to reality seeing sub-5000 scores. I tried to get 1600x1200, 6xAA and 16xAF working, but neither 9700 Pro would cooperate here. It seems what we were constantly running out of memory, so it looks like we'll be seeing 256MB video cards soon.
Code Creatures
This is a DX8 benchmark that makes good use of vertex and pixel shaders. Given that the AiW 9700 Pro is a DX9 part, we can get an idea of how it will handle an older video shader specification.
Code Creatures No AA, No AF
Code Creatures 4xAA, 8xAF
The AiW 9700 Pro handles the benchmark well, but we're not talking about 100+ framerates this time around. There's a hit once we turn on the AntiAliasing and Anisotropic Filtering, but it's at 1280 and up that we get the largest changes.
With the synthetic benchmarks out of the way, let's look at some real-world situations.
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