Unreal Tournament 2003	Source: Epic

Unreal Tournament 2003 is the sequel to 1999's multiple 'Game of the Year' award winner. It uses the very latest Unreal Engine technology - where graphics, sound and game play are taken beyond the bleeding edge. Unreal Tournament 2003 employs the use of Vertex as well as Pixel Shaders and it's recommended that you use a DirectX 8 videocard to get the most out of the game.

UT2003 - 1024x768 Flyby
Anti-Aliasing	FPS	Ranking
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 2x AA	202.81
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 4x AA	181.43
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 6x AA	143.28
Anisotropic Filtering	FPS	Ranking
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 2x AF	231.34
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 4x AF	232.29
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 8x AF	230.87
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 16x AF	230.42
Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering	FPS	Ranking
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 2x AA, 8x AF	192.01
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 4x AA, 16x AF	168.89
UT2003 - 1024x768 Botmatch
Anti-Aliasing	FPS	Ranking
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 2x AA	81.75
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 4x AA	81.76
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 8x AA	81.11
Anisotropic Filtering	FPS	Ranking
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 2x AF	82.1
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 4x AF	82.03
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 8x AF	82.01
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 16x AF	82.02
Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering	FPS	Ranking
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 2x AA, 8x AF	81.66
Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V 4x AA, 16x AF	81.6

AA/AF Performance in UT2003 is excellent and even the most hardcore gamer is going to be happy with the GV-RX70P256V's abilities here!

A Great Mainstream Card

After a couple of years of watching both nVIDIA and ATi make cuts to mainstream products to save money and to distance them from their high end products, it's refreshing to see they're finally increasing the value of these videocards. A mainstream card like the Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V certainly goes much further today than one would have six months ago.

The Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V is a very well-rounded card. Gamers out there will no doubt be happy with its 3D performance, while those of you who are planning to build a quiet SFF HDTV box will love how the GV-RX70P256V generates absolutely no noise thanks to the large passive heatpipe cooler. To top it off, the card has full support for TV-out including component output!

The software package is quite decent too. From the benchmarks PCstats ran, the performance of the Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V in games was generally very good overal, and excellent for its class even with AA and AF enabled. The fact that this card's Radeon X700 GPU did not drop significantly in performance when AA/AF was enabled is great info for gamers who like their eye candy.

Our particular test sample was not the best at overclocking, only hitting 491 MHz core speed and 904 MHz memory. It's quite possible that passive heatsinks, no matter how cleverly designed, will never cool as well as active ones. Considering how well the card performs at stock speeds, and it's total lack of noise, this can easily be forgiven.

The Gigabyte GV-RX70P256V is just hitting the retail market right now, so if you've jumped on the PCI Express bandwagon or plan to do so in the near future, it is definitely a silent videocard worth considering!

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