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ATI RADEON 9100 IGP Integrated Chipset Review (page 8)

Category: Chipsets

by Ilya Gavrichenkov

[ 12/01/2003 | 11:02 PM ]

3DMark03 suggests that it’s not quite fair to run modern computer games on integrated chipsets. Although the DirectX 8 tests launch and run on the RADEON 9100 IGP, the speed is simply depressing. As for the single DirectX 7 text, Wings of Fury, the RADEON 9100 IGP wins it thanks to its high-quality vertex shaders support and the ability to map six textures per clock cycle.

It’s funny, but Intel’s chipset is faster in Quake 3 than the RADEON. This is the only 3D test to rank the chipsets this way. The higher frequency of the i865G core together with the relative simplicity if the gaming engine (it doesn’t use vertex shaders or all six TMUs of ATI’s chipset) must have led to this situation.