RSSATI's Radeon Achieves GigaTexel Speeds
By Mykel Nahorniak | Published April 26, 2000, 7:21 PM
ATI demonstrated its latest graphics card dubbed 'Radeon 256' at the WinHEC conference earlier this week. The new card is touted as the fastest chip the company has ever released. The new graphics hardware features a 1.5 GigaTexel/second fill rate, 128 megabytes of 200-MHz ram, and 8 GB/second Effective Memory bandwidth. ATI's new card is the first to surpass the GigaTexel fill rate.
ATI began to aim towards the 3D graphics market with the release of their Rage 128 chip. Though this chip performed fairly well, development and production delays detered its opportunity to become a real competitor in the high-end market. ATI is now attempting to take the 3D performance crown with the Radeon graphics card.
Though unofficially announced, the company will also be releasing a multi-chip version of the Radeon. This version is expected to be named the 'Radeon 256 MAXX.' With dual chip support, the Radeon will feature dual-monitor output since each Radeon chip will have its own memory and fully functional 2D subsystem.
Can anyone say Rage Max. You had better be very happy with Win 98 before picking up one of theese puppies. ATI has passed any support for this $300.00 dollar paper weight into the toilet. ( oh yes I can bback this statement up i still have the EMAILS ). No Linux support (passed to another company).Win Nt/2K Ha.
Before I even think about another product from ATI I wan't to see
how they take care of the customers of their most recent high dollar
card. So far nothing has been done for the RAGE MAX owners.
Buyer beware of pretty boxes and and benchmarks based on prereleased drivers.
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|There is WinNT support, Win2k drivers aren't done yet, so no wonder it doesn't support that. They don't support Linux because most people who by that kind card use Windows, not Linux
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|1. ATI's cards have always been the cheap kind, what U pay 4 is what U get
2. ATI did **** up about windows 2000 drivers (I should know - I have an AIW128), but before that I had a great set for '98, beating with my configuration any TNT1 based card (against which RAGE128 is poised)
3. ATI DO have a full working ICD for win2K already. nVIDIA R the only other company with such drivers (tried the 3dfx drivers... seen blue screens, voodoo3 goes back to my file server).
4. Any1 who could beat AIW128 feature-wise, stand up. Sit down, U ASUS TNT+video user. Try recording MPEG2 first, with something less than a PIII-800...
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|cheap cards?
The ATI Rage Furry Maxx is one of the best consumer graphics cards on the market.
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|My point s simple, we have 1Ghz Processors, 128MB 256Bit Video Cards, Rambus Memory, which is all fantastic, but what about the humble hard disk, even U2W SCSI hard disks are now the main bottle neck for any such PC, surley a fact only overcome with the arrival of some sort of solid State drive, come on Segate, IBM, etc it can't be that hard can it????
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|The harddrive is NOT the bottleneck of the system, in fact, it's pretty darn fast.
The bottleneck is the x86 archieture, it is in dire need of redesign, but that won't happen since the 64bit processors will be coming out soon.
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|1) Voodoo 5/6 will achieve gigatexel speeds, and should be out sooner than the Radeon
2) Geforce 2 GTS will be available tomorrow (friday, 4/27), and will also achieve gigatexel speeds
3) if you're going to put up an article on the Radeon, put up something on the aforementioned GeForce 2, which is going to kick a whole bundle of ass. I want, I want.
Thank you, have a nice day.
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|But will it have a STABLE OpenGL ICD for Win2000 ???
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|ATI's proudcts performance simply sucks, period
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|yeah I know it spells "products", in case someone likes to play the picky game.. cuz I am using a MS Keyboard that's why
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|Ya..
Pure crap. What else could it be?
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|dammmmnnnn.....now let's hope they can get the DRIVERS right this time!!!!!!!!!
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|no kidding! good g**d***.. if i could find a set of ati drivers that actually work properly AND efficiently, i might not be selling my AIW128..
lordie :)
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|And I might throw my Rage Fury in the bin and buy a card from someone else, because on past performance ATI will never produce a working set of drivers until the card is virtually obsolete.
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|I've always found ATI's drivers to be incompatible and buggy.
VooDoo 5 for me when its available!
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