ATi Radeon 8500

punkmac writes: "The new ATi Radeon 2 8500 is finally here, with previews at Anandtech and Tom's Hardware. Could ATi finally have the killer card that we've all been hoping for? With promises of a 33% speed increase from the GeForce 3, they might." Gamespot has a piece too, all published simultaneously. I love it when a hardware company decides to lift their embargo and all the "independent" reviewers dutifully follow the herd. Compare the three articles and see if you can determine which images/text came directly from the press kit.

Comments

Truform is neato

[Gnight]

The Radeon 2 has this cool new feature called truform.

It allows a low polygon model to look much more detailed without sacrificing frames per second. See this and this for an illustration of what truform *could* do.

It will be very interesting to see what this truform thing can do. Read more about truform here.

Its the drivers that make all the differene

[ankit]

That more or less sums it up. Nvidia has got WAY better drivers than ATI. Detonator 4 is going to blow away ATI. However, I am in favour of ATI or some other company coming up with newer cards. Competition is always good. But I dont see ATI seriously challenging NVIDIA in the forseeable future.

Also, ATI... please get *proper* linux drivers if you want to improve your market share....