Well none of the above scores are good, remember, the 2x Anti-Alaising option is enabled. 3DMark did look very good though! In the next series of test, I chose to omit the GeForce DDR. While still being a good card, it just doesn't have the horsepower to do anti-alaising.

Let's see how Quake handles FSAA?

HQ demo001 2x FSAA
Video Card:	GPU Core:	Memory MHz:	Frames:	Time:	FPS:
Radeon	183	183	1346	26.1	51.7
Radeon	225	215	1346	21.7	62.2
Geforce 2 Pro	200	400	1346	17.0	79.1
nv15demo 2x FSAA
Video Card:	GPU Core:	Memory MHz:	Frames:	Time:	FPS:
Radeon	183	183	1471	46.3	31.8
Radeon	225	215	1471	39.6	37.2
Geforce 2 Pro	200	400	1471	35.0	37.2

Nothing spectacular here. To be honest, when I'm playing Quake 3, I don't even notice the jaggies… For most people, the game play is just too fast and the performance penalty is just too much. I guess if you're just playing bots, it's ok, but not against real people.

FSAA Action with MDK2 also…

1024x768 NO T&L 2x FSAA
Video Card:	GPU Core:	Memory MHz:	Frame Rate:
Radeon	183	183	35.2
Radeon	225	215	42.0
Geforce 2 Pro	200	400	51.4

Again, I'm sparing the GeForce DDR some embarrassment. 2x anti-alaising is cool with MDK though. In fact, I can't play this game without it!

1024x768 T&L Enabled 2x FSAA
Video Card:	GPU Core:	Memory MHz:	Frame Rate:
Radeon	183	183	34.2
Radeon	225	215	40.8
Geforce 2 Pro	200	400	51.1

Again, we see here that T&L degrades performance! I have NO idea why this I happening… If you know, please drop me a line!

One things I found very annoying about the Radeon was that at resolutions above 1280x1024 FSAA was disabled no matter (both in OpenGL and Direct3D) what it was set to in the display properties… To be honest, I'd prefer if the games told me it just couldn't handle the setting like nVidia cards instead of trying to sneak one by me. You could have imagined my surprise to see the benchmarks from 1280x1024 with 2x AA beat 1024x768 2x AA.

ATI has taught me that frames shouldn't be the only thing people look at… Before, my motto was "performance is #1, everything else is secondary" but the Radeon has certainly opened my eyes! Games just seem more vibrant and lifelike on the Radeon then my GeForce 2 Pro. Also, games run almost as fast, especially in 32bit colour!

This is to my dad. Sorry! I think I'm going to keep the Radeon for a while (at least hold me over till I get a GeForce 3!) so you'll have to use the GeForce 2 Pro and watch DVD's on your tiny monitor!