ATI Radeon LE 32MB DDR

by Matthew Witheiler on May 23, 2001 11:59 AM EST

The Drivers

The Radeon LE works with the same driver base as the rest of the Radeon series cards. In this review, we used the latest ATI supplied Radeon drivers, version 4.13.7103. For more information on the Radeon drivers, see our ATI vs NVIDIA: Driver performance under Win98 & Win2K article.

The Test

Windows 98 SE Test System

Hardware

CPU(s) AMD Athlon (Thunderbird) 1.33GHz
Motherboard(s) ASUS A7M266
Memory 128MB PC2100 Corsair DDR SDRAM
Hard Drive

IBM Deskstar DPTA-372050 20.5GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA 66

CDROM

Phillips 48X

Video Card(s)

ATI Radeon SDR 32MB
ATI Radeon DDR 32MB
ATI Radeon LE 32MB

Hercules/Guillemot 3D Prophet 4500

NVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 64MB SDR
NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS 64MB DDR
NVIDIA GeForce2 Pro 64MB DDR

Ethernet

Linksys LNE100TX 100Mbit PCI Ethernet Adapter

Software

Operating System

Windows 98 SE

Video Drivers

ATI Radeon SDR 32MB - 4.12.7103
ATI Radeon DDR 32MB - 4.12.7103
ATI Radeon LE 32MB
- 4.12.7103

Hercules/Guillemot 3D Prophet 4500 - 7.89

NVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 64MB SDR - 11.01
NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS 64MB DDR - 11.01
NVIDIA GeForce2 Pro 64MB DDR - 11.01

Benchmarking Applications

Gaming

idSoftware Quake III Arena 1.27g - demo127.dm3
Croteam Serious Sam - Karnak Peaceful Night Coop
GT Interactive Unreal Tournament 4.32 Reverend's Thunder Demo

AquaMark (Aquanox Benchmark)


Note that due to the fact that none of the ATI Radeon cards tested would properly run Synetic's Mercedes-Benz Truck Racing demo, the benchmark was left out of this review.
Making it Faster OpenGL Performance - Quake III Arena
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