ATI's Mobility Radeon 9700 - What's in a name?

Prince of Persia

Prince of Persia is one of the most recent DX9 titles to hit the streets and comes with many of the trimmings of what DX9 has to offer. This is very reminiscent of the whole "Aladdin" theme. This is another title that is probably the most difficult to benchmark of the four titles that we have added to our normal benchmark suite. The only way to reproduce the benchmark scenario was to memorize every move made and try and duplicate it. There were small differences in runs like bad guy 1 hitting you before you had a chance to hit him, but we only had about a 0.1fps difference in those cases, which is why we are throwing in the scores for comparison sake.


Because of the way that the game engine was designed, it functions in a similar method to the post-processing done in Splinter Cell, which is why we can't run with AA or other tweaked driver control panel settings. ATI's Mobility Radeon 9700 takes a little under a 10fps gain over its predecessor here, which gives it a 28% margin. We need to note that both GPUs can run Prince of Persia quite smoothly.