Performance in Synthetic Benchmarks: 3DMark2001 SE and 3DMark03

Now, let’s run the popular benchmark from FutureMark. Here are the results obtained in 3DMark2001 SE:

Rather a confusing picture: RADEON 8500 is the best in the “raw” mode, while RADEON 9000 is better with enabled FSAA and AA due to the optimizations in the RV250 architecture. RADEON 9200 loses to GeForce4 MX440, notwithstanding its 128MB of memory.

Some things changed: RADEON 9200 goes neck and neck with GeForce4 MX440 in the “raw” mode, but loses its ground in the other mode, because the GeForce is under favorable conditions there. RADEON 8500 is beyond any competition.