In this digest we've just slightly updated and added to this section. There's no sense in describing what's this about again. Especially, you can revise everything here. We've re-tested some cards with newer drivers and added higher-quality shots to Radeon 9700 subsection. Moreover, the game list was slightly cut due to time issues. Now we test performance and quality in Serious Sam: The Second Encounter and 3DMark2001 SE game 2 low details.

We didn't provide performance falloff percentage, believing it to be excessive and just time-consuming. You can calculate it yourself if you really need to know it, but if you don't [want to calculate], just know that it has almost remained the same with newer drivers. Besides, we've also changed the diagram appearance, having hidden the long legend, so we hope the readouts are now more understandable.

Again, it's just an addition to the previous material.

Below is the complete list of cards tested with different anisotropy levels. CPU and memory clocks are provided in parentheses.

• ATI RADEON 9700 PRO 128MB (325/620) Anisotropy 8 performance
• ATI RADEON 9700 PRO 128MB (325/620) Anisotropy 8 quality
• ATI RADEON 9700 PRO 128MB (325/620) Anisotropy 16 performance
• ATI RADEON 9700 PRO 128MB (325/620) Anisotropy 16 quality
• ATI RADEON 8500LE 128MB (250/500) Anisotropy 8
• ATI RADEON 8500LE 128MB (250/500) Anisotropy 16
• ATI RADEON 8500LE 64MB (250/500) Anisotropy 8
• ATI RADEON 8500LE 64MB (250/500) Anisotropy 16
• ATI RADEON 9000 Pro 128MB (275/550) Anisotropy 8
• ATI RADEON 9000 Pro 128MB (275/550) Anisotropy 16
• ATI RADEON 9000 Pro 64MB (275/550) Anisotropy 8
• ATI RADEON 9000 Pro 64MB (275/550) Anisotropy 16
• ATI RADEON 7500LE 64MB (270/460) Anisotropy 8
• ATI RADEON 7500LE 64MB (270/460) Anisotropy 16
• GeForce4 Ti 4600 128MB (300/650) Anisotropy 4
• GeForce4 Ti 4600 128MB (300/650) Anisotropy 8
• GeForce3 Ti 500 64MB (240/500) Anisotropy 4
• GeForce3 Ti 500 64MB (240/500) Anisotropy 8
• GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB (250/500) Anisotropy 4
• GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB (250/500) Anisotropy 8
• GeForce4 Ti 4200 64MB (250/500) Anisotropy 4
• GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64MB (250/500) Anisotropy 8
• GeForce 2 Ti 64MB (250/400) Anisotropy 2
• Parhelia 128MB (220/550) Anisotropy 2
• KYRO II SE 64MB (200/200) Anisotropy 2

Direct3D anisotropy

3DMark2001 SE, Performance

• Game2 Low details

3DMark2001 SE, Quality

• Separate comparison

OpenGL anisotropy

• Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Performance

Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, Quality

• Separate comparison

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