A bit of a stink has been going on over ATI not being so informative about the clocking down of their OEM Radeon cards, HardOCP has the scoop and a word from ATI themselves on what they are doing.

ATI has released some new Win98 drivers for their Radeon cards. Grab them as always from the drivers page. Thanks Mick

SharkyExtreme has one of the first looks at the new 32mb version of the ATI Radeon cards. Been meaning to try one of those out, they look pretty smoove. He also has quick interview with ATI to boot.

The monkeys at PC Monkey has done a comparison test between the new ATI Radeon beta drivers and the ones that shipped with the card.

ATI has issued a press release regarding the fact that they are powering the Nintendo Game Cube's graphics. The memory used by the video processor is embedded directly onto the chip (that's a lot faster).

If you were maybe already considering getting one of those new Radeon cards from ATI, maybe this is the final push (good or bad) as ATI has now released the All-In-Wonder edition. All-In-Wonder allows you to watch TV, edit it, improved DVD playback (always strong on ATI cards) and also has outputs to connect to a TV, digital flat panel or Dolby Digital receiver. AnandTech, FiringSquad and Gamers Depot all have a review which again looks at the performance of the Radeon chipset as well. At lower resolutions the Radeon does alright, but at higher resolutions the GeForce2 still spanks the Radeon.

update Steve: A few auctions for the card have been setup by GamersDepot , AnandTech , SharkyExtreme , and TomsHardware The proceeds will go to Jeremy from AGN. Thanks Zeeliv for digging up the links.

ATI has released a new set of drivers for their Radeon card. It's a pretty hefty 11mb download. Thanks Kreg.

The ATI Radeon continues to look pretty attractive, AcesHardware has a new article/review of the 3D card giving it a run against the GeForce2 (of course) and throwing a few misc games at it.

The ATI Radeon came out of the gates recently giving the GeForce2 a run for the money, well as the drivers keep getting refined it looks like the Radeon is in nearly a dead heat with the GeForce2 now with benchmarks, check it out.

Some follow-up to that episode at the MacWorld expo that caused ATI's Radeon (and consequently the id mission pack showing) to be pulled from the floor is over at this url. (Thanks baron_calamity)

A roundup of more ATI Radeon articles that I didnt catch the first time around yesterday. Here you guys go: PlanetHardware , GameSpot , HotHardware , Sharky Extreme , TomsHardware. Also, the PCInsight guys have an interview with 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..

There was an ATI Radeon presentation in Hungary recently, and Hardware & Software have written up an article about it, and also did an interview with ATI's Ed Knight about the new chipset/videocard. Thanks Tweakers.

Well as many of you guys probably remember a little while back at WinHEC (Dig my cool pictorial!) 3 videocards were shown off. The NVidia GeForce2, 3dfx V5-6000, and ATI Radeon. We kinda got what was expected with the NVidia and 3dfx boards and most people blew off the ATI card since after all, it's ATI. I wouldnt be so sure though, the guys at chip.de (Thanks HardOCP) have gotten a hold of an underclocked version of the Radeon which is performing quite well:

First surprise at Q3A: The underclocked Radeon beat our Geforce-1-DDR card! With a 12-percent-under-par frequency it couldn't compete with Geforce-2 and Voodoo-5/5500, though. Exception: At 1.600 x 1.200 and 32 Bit color depth it beat the Voodoo-5-5500, too.

Of course, we dont have any details on system specs or resolutions used etc, but a 12% underclocked card beating out a GeForceDDR card is certainly something worth investigating. here's a quick chart for comparison sake:

As was mentioned over the weekend, fill rate isnt everything. Memory bandwidth is becoming more of an issue now that cards are running so fast and it looks like ATI at 8GB/sec (according to their press release) is right in the middle of things.

update by Maarten: The guys at GA-Hardware got in contact with ATI about this preview, and it seems ATI isn't too pleased about it. They are saying

- ATI has not released any boards for testing. The testing was done on a board that was obtained through irregular channels.
- The A11 is at least two versions behind the RADEON that will ship.
- The shipping RADEON will have higher clock speeds and far more mature drivers.
- The board and tests used by Chip Online Review have no validity.

ATI has released new Win9x , Win2k and WinNT 4 display drivers for the Rage 128/Rage 128 Pro. These are special purpose OpenGL optimized drivers and not supported.

ATI has released some new drivers for the Rage FURY MAXX for Windows 98 (scroll down the page). These are optimized Direct 3D/OpenGL drivers.

ATI has released some new Windows 2000 drivers for their Rage 128/128 Pro. Thanks Kodiak.

3D Workshop is the latest site to take a look at the new videocards coming out. They took a look at ATI's offering, the Radeon256.

3DRage is carrying a preview of the ATI Radeon256 card. I'm telling you guys keep an eye on this one, it has some pretty strong potential to bust out with some ass whoopins.

VoodooExtreme has a new preview of the ATI Radeon256 board that should be showing up with OEMs in June. Make sure and check it out, even though it's ATI the card is fast, honest!