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ATI RADEON X700 XT: Architecture Preview (page 8)

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by Alexey Stepin , Tim Tscheblockov, Anton Shilov

[ 09/21/2004 | 04:54 AM ]

T&L Emulation

The lights tests of 3DMark2001 SE also testify to the advantage of the RADEON X700 XT in processing geometry. The difference between the X800 PRO and the X700 XT is probably due to the different configurations of the test platforms.

The RADEON X700 XT and the RADEON X800 PRO are racing neck and neck in the test with eight light sources – the difference between them is negligible.

The speed of the vertex processors alone cannot win this test – a high texturing speed and a fast memory subsystem are also important. That’s why the X700 XT with eight pixel pipelines and a 128-bit memory bus fell behind the RADEON X800 PRO here.