ATI Radeon Unveiled

July 17, 2000 6:08 AM

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The ATI Radeon 3D card is out of the bag this morning. We've got some reviews and benchmarks of the card that you can check out over at AnandTech, FiringSquad, GamersDepot, and GA-Hardware. It looks like the card just comes in a little bit slower than the GeForce2 cards though in most of the Quake3 benchmarks. (on low end and high end CPUs). However it busts some ass in 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 high quality.

ATI has finally put out a high-end card that is able to compete with the likes of NVIDIA and 3dfx. The Radeon features T&L and a good amount of DX8 support, but the card still wasn't able to out-gun the GeForce 2..

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avixe

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July 17, 2000 6:10 AM

I guess this is good, but .. I dunno. If someone was going to get a new card, wouldn't they have already?
- Maarten Goldstein
  
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  July 17, 2000 6:29 AM
  
  I'm still running on a TNT2U :)
  - Vantage
    
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    July 17, 2000 6:37 AM
    
    I'm still running on an ATI Rage Fury ;)
    - plutonium245
      
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      July 17, 2000 9:20 AM
      
      im still running on a ATI rage pro. beat that :}
  - avixe
    
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    July 17, 2000 6:38 AM
    
    Hmm ... I was on an original TNT2 till a month ago, and I thought I was behind the curve.
    - Vantage
      
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      July 17, 2000 6:42 AM
      
      Unless you buy a new card every generation (6 months), you ARE "behind the curve" as the video card industry would dictate. Of course VERY few people are able to stay "ahead of the curve"... I game regularily with about 10 other guys. All of us are VERY hardcore gamers. One of the guys JUST bought a GeForce DDR. The rest are a mix of TNT2U's and Rage Furys.
      - kbanas
        
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        July 17, 2000 6:42 AM
        
        3DFX SUCKS HAHAHAH YOU SUCK LAMER
        
        ..
        
        (i'm sorry)
        
        Vantage
        
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        July 17, 2000 6:44 AM
        
        ? 3DFX?
        
        kbanas
        
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        July 17, 2000 6:46 AM
        
        I don't even really know.
    - baron calamity
      
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      July 17, 2000 6:42 AM
      
      We are always behind the curve. *sigh*