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PowerColor 9800XT - Upgrading to DirectX 9

Videocards/VGA Reviews by jmke @ 2004-03-07

While most of the reviews out there give you an idea how fast a video card is, almost none show you what the actual visual difference is between a DX8 and a DX9 capable video card. In this article we'll show you what improvements you get when upgrading to a DX9 graphics card, the Powercolor R9800XT (XR98T-D3)

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GTA3 Vice City :

Grand Theft Auto 3: Vice City is a third person racer/shooter, allowing you to cruise through a living city Review)

Performance :

This is a pure DX8 game, the Ti4600 held its own here quite well, 1280x1024 with 2x FSAA and 2x AF produced average frame rates of ~60 for the nVidia card, without any of the fancy FSAA/AF both video cards produced extremely fluent gameplay with 100+ FPS.

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I had a hard time searching for differences between the two cards, and in the end I must confess that I found none. Even with the FSAA/AS enabled the image produced by both cards were undistinguishable

No FSAA/AF

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2x FSAA / 2x AF

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