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ATI R300 and R250V

Posted by michael on from the more-pixels-yay dept.

Chuu writes "The ATI R300 (Radeon 9700) and R250V (Radeon 9000/Radeon 9000 Pro) reviews are out, at all the usual suspects, but the one you want to pay attention to is over at anandtech.com, since somehow Anand got permission to publish his benchmark results for the R300 while the other sites were stuck with whitepapers. The results? The R250V is a GF4MX killer, which is not saying much. On the other hand, the R300 absolutely trounces the GeForce4 Ti4600, running 54% faster in Unreal Tournament 2003 and 37% faster in Quake 3 at 1600x1200x32 on a Pentium4 2.4ghz."

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  1. Congrats ATI (sarcasm) by gosand · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Congratulations ATI, on your wonderful new video card. But you lost me back when your "new and improved" drivers for the AIW-128Pro effing freaked my system out. It took me a week to get it back to the way it was, and I am still not convinced it is as stable as it used to be. Until I hear people proclaiming "ATI finally got the drivers right", I will not consider purchasing another ATI video card. And even then, probably not, because there isn't that much of a gap between you and your competition. I don't need the latest and greatest card out there, I just want something stable.

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  2. Re:XFree drivers by silicon_synapse · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why do you really care if the drivers are open source? If a reputable company maintains the drivers well and supports all the features, closed source would be perfectly acceptable. There's nothing inherantly wrong with closed source software.

  3. Re:Anand's benchmarks by I_redwolf · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    ATI never has drivers worth a crap. Drivers are the most important part of the card and ATI always has shit drivers but great hardware.. I'll stick with Nvidia because I don't need another paperweight.