Performance in Synthetic Benchmarks

Futuremark 3DMark03 build 360

Although 3DMark03 favors GeForce 6/7 graphics card families more than the ATI solutions, RADEON X1300 PRO manages to get ahead of all, at least in the total score chart. What determined this victory for a solution featuring only 4 pixel and 2 vertex processors?

Game 1 test requires high fillrate and efficient fixed TnL emulation. The entire RADEON X1000 family as well as RADEON X1300 PRO in particular have some issues with this, as we have already found out. Despite this fact, RADEON X1300 PRO retains its stable second position after GeForce 6600 in all resolutions up to 1600x1200. Unfortunately, in the highest resolution the newcomer surrenders even to GeForce 6200, which can only be explained by the raw drivers at this point. So far, raw drivers have been a real pain for the entire RADEON X1000 graphics card family. Enabled full-screen anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering allow RADEON X1300 PRO to take the lead. This graphics card boasts the fastest memory subsystem of all the tested graphics solutions that is why it performs so well in eye candy mode.

High GPU frequency, efficient work with the Z-buffer, and relatively powerful memory subsystem help RADEON X1300 PRO to win in Game 2 test from the 3DMark03 suite. Only in 1600x1200 with disabled FSAA and anisotropic filtering the new ATI solutions slows down for some reason.