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Rivastation 8500 Review!

hmm.

so what are we to believe ?

that windws XP drivers are busted up ?

Anandtech staff !! We need your review ASAP 🙂




 
Apparently they had troubles with it too.


<< Unfortunately the drivers of the card make a very incomplete impression the current point in time. Instead of SmoothVision AntiAliasing is contained in the driver only the old SuperSampling. Also with the Windows XP driver one can hardly speak of stability - let alone of performance. " The Nature test " in 3d Mark of 2001 leads to a complete computer restart. With Pentium 4 and under Win98 these problems do not step however on 3d Mark 2000 need up to 5 attempts to the run under XP with Athlon or Pentium 4 completely pass through, since one lands constantly suddenly again on the Desktop.

The following bench mark on a Athlon system were determined. For P4 of results I recommend a view of the results of Tomx27s hardware Guide. >>


Translation by altavista.

The performance of the Radeon 8500 seems to be pretty terrible in WinXP when compared with Win98SE.

From Giants benchmark:


<< In Giants the performance of the RADEON 8500 breaks in drastically. Only in high resolutions it can maintain ground opposite the GeForce 2 Ultra. The performance is dramatically bad in Windows XP. In 1600x1200 it falls even under the magic 25FPS boundary and achieves in 1280x1024-32 only scarcely the half Framerate opposite W98! However also the NVIDIA cards runs under XP clearly more slowly than in Windows 98. >>

 
Wow, win98 performance is not nearly as bad as Tom's Hardware leads you to believe, its actually excellent in many games. On the other hand, winXP drivers seem terrible, then again, didn't ATI announce they were releasing new winXP drivers on Oct 25th? Hopefully they will tweak (overhaul in winXP) drivers for better stability and performance.

-Ice
 
is winxp even officially even out yet? if they have the drivers ready for the actual release, then i'm not worried.
 


<< FSAA In the current ATI driver is not yet contained the new SmoothVision AntiAliasing. Instead the driver still falls back to the slower SuperSampling. The results are therefore only as provisional to betraachten. >>



these cant be final drivers without smoothvision

can anyone confirm if these are the shipping drivers?
 


<< One again. ATI drivers bites. I feel sorry for those who bought the 8500 from dell. Just my opinion. >>



i dont, still waiting for mine to come in
 
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