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ATI Radeon Unveiled

by Steve Gibson Jul 17, 2000 8:08am CST tags: ATI
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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