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On ATI's Nvidia "Killer"

by Maarten Goldstein, Jun 05, 2002 7:56am PDT
Related Topics – NVidia, ATI

The Inquirer is doing some reporting about the next-gen ATI parts. The R300 and RV250 should be out sometime late this summer, supposedly a few months before NVidia's next GPU (October or November is what they say). NVidia's NV30 has taped out though. As for the ATI 300 part, it's expected there will be a $399 loaded version of the videocard along with a cheaper Light version. ATI has come pretty close to NVidia in performance lately, think they'll finally have a card that beats NVidia?

The ATI 300 will support DirectX 9.0, will have as many as 107 million transistors, and have eight pipes with 16 textures. It will include 4 vertex shader engines, and use 256-bit DDR memory, and use a technology called HyperZ III.We also expect that the R300 will support AGP8X, be out before Direct X9.0 and support it, include both MPEG 2 encoding and decoding, video acceleration and the rest. <snip> It will support 128MB of DDR, VGA, DVI-I and VO, but we believe that ATI will introduce an R300 Light (LE) which will be aimed more at the meanstream market.
Some pics can be seen at Legion Hardware.


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    I will NEVER buy another ATI card ever again. My first ATI card I had was an onboard rage mach 64 that came on my sony vaio PCV-90 (the first computer sony ever made). I always downloaded the latest drivers from the internet on my 28.8k modem but none of them ever made my games run. It had 3d capabilities, but the only game I could run was "wipeout" (it came with my computer) but the 3d support for any other games just wasent in the drivers. The next card I bought was a xPert @ play 98 which had 3d capabilities too but the only game I can remember getting to work is quake 3 (not even HL worked!) and thats only if I turned my graphics all the way down and messed with the system settings. I would get 15 FPS if I was LUCKY. Supposedly it was supposed to compete with a voodoo 3 (laf!). The third ATI card I had was a TV tuner and I just got it (and returned it) about week ago. It was the ATI TV Wonder VE. The drivers on that card actually worked right, and it was a nice card but the only time I could actually watch TV on it was when I first installed the drivers and somtimes if I was lucky after clicking on it randomly about 3000 times it would work one time, but besides that the image was scrambled 98% of the time. I read on the internet many people had this same problem [ http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/3940.html ] and it turns out the software (not the drivers) werent compatible with windows XP even though they had drivers they claimed were compatible with windows xp on thier website (the drivers were realeased a few months before windows xp even came out).
    Jun 05, 2002 6:05pm PDT