This is our second review aimed at examination of a new series of video cards from ATI and the third one studying the RADEON 8500. In the previous review where we considered video cards from PowerMagic we focused on the new drivers from ATI of v7.206 which support the SmoothVision.

In that review we also took a look at quality of operation of the RADEON 8500 (and partially RADEON 7500) in 3D graphics with the new drivers. Today we will continue our investigation. For comparison we will use the results obtained for the NVIDIA GeForce3.