Benchmarks III
Can it do any better in UT2003's explosive flyby demo ?
Or in Quake 3 ?
Quake is the de facto bandwidth test. That's true at 1024x768 now. The Radeon 9800 Pro's potential allows it to show up minute differences in each chipset's bandwidth and latency settings, even at this playable setting.
Performance overview
If you can visually tell the difference between the highest and MSI's results in all the gaming benchmarks, you've got better eyesight than yours truly. Sure, everyone is looking for the best possible performance, but it's not like we're discussing a 30% difference in performance here, is it ?.
The Springdale is a new chipset and we fully expect optimised BIOSes to be released that take full advantage of its speed. This MSI may not be as fast as, say, the Asus, however it's stable and relatively quick by anyone's reckoning. We also expect to see manufacturers' results converge as the BIOSes become more mature.