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ATI R300 and R250V
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."
No big surprise, it SHOULD trounce the GF4... after all, it's the first of the next generation cards - it's interesting to compare to previous generation cards, but it really should more appropriately be put head-to-head against the GF4 successor NV30. Trouncing current cards is a big yawn, but if it can go toe-to-toe with the big boys in 3 or 4 months they'll have something.
That said, congrats to ATI - I love competition in the marketplace. Now if only they could write some decent drivers for once in their lives.
"So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand it's bee backwash."
Any modern video card can easily outperform the perception of the human eye. IIRC, humans stop distinguishing framerates above 60fps or so. When are people going to stop believing the hype around these things?
Karma: Good (despite my invention of the Karma: sig)
Now we can all play games at 3x the refresh rate of the monitor.
We don't need faster anymore. We need cheaper and more integrated. Get rid of the DIMM and PCI slots and all the legacy hardware. Put the memory on the motherboard and create a disposable form factor and an open laptop standard.
Hello? Anyone listening?
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
What, is ATI paying slashdot kickbacks? It seems like there's a story about how great the new ATI cards at least twice a week.
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