Gigabyte MAYA II Radeon 9700 Review

DiscoStu · 09-01-2003, 03:17 PM

I've finished playing with the Gigabyte MAYA II Radeon 9700.

http://www.radiativenz.com/reviews/g...00/index.shtml

Comments/Questions welcomed.

AcurA · 09-01-2003, 09:02 PM

Benchies would have been better against the 4600 - the 8500 is kidda showing tis age. Though tis was inetersting to see the 8500 edge out the 9700 @ lower res... is it a CPU bottleneck prob, i dunno - in situations like these u usually have complete neck to neck BM where the diff is purely experimentals errors. Strange.

DiscoStu · 09-01-2003, 09:45 PM

Yep would've been better, but it's a different testbed to the other reviews, and for some reason I don't seem to have a 4600 just lying round

and yep, it is a CPU bottleneck which I was getting at:
"Please note that the system used will not be able to fully utilise the Radeon 9700. Results indicate comparitive performance and not the full capabilities of the card."

Q3 & SS are really starting to show their age, so will likely be left out in the not-to-distant future.

Ragnor · 09-01-2003, 10:28 PM

Jedi Knight II used quite a bit instead of Q3 thesedays

Milamber · 10-01-2003, 09:00 AM

Nice review there Disco,

If I could be bothered I would redo my 9000 Pro Review, i've still got the card lying in a draw somewhere.