ATi Radeon 9700 Full Release Review w/ Benchmarks

Chalupa_Man writes: "ATi Technologies has officially released their new Radeon 9700 Pro today. Real benchmark numbers and a full review can be found here. The card is impressive for sure and should have NVIDIA on the ropes for a while, as it beats out a GeForce 4 Ti 4600 handily, especially with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering enabled. Image quality is also top notch for this new high end DX9 compliant product from ATi." sunny_talwar adds these links to more reviews of the new high-end Radeon at AnandTech's and Tom's Hardware. Update: 08/20 03:06 GMT by T : Cp writes "Gamers Depot also has their full review up of the Radeon 9700 Pro, including nice images of the driver tabs and 6x Antialiasing performance."

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What is the meaning of the ATI model numbers??

[t0qer]

If you add 1200 to 8500 you come up with 9700. Will the next radeon model number be 10900?

NOT Available yet...

[Anonymous Coward]

nice story...Misleading healine as usual..the CARD IS NOT AVAILBLE yet. No word on when it will be either. I called ATI....

Re:This Discussion is Irrelevant...

[Quasar1999]

...until John Carmack responds with his take on the card.

I'm serious. How many of us base our video card purchases on the recommendations he makes? He knows the cards in detail, knows what features they support and how well, and he sure as hell knows how well they'll perform with the next id game.

So John, is this card worthy? What? John said he will port Doom 3 to XBox... Yet he says the 9700 is his new card of choice... I see something horribly wrong here... Either he has gone crazy, or (more likely) is accepting bribes from microsoft. In which case, I wouldn't put it past him to accept bribes from nvidia in the future, which would make his recommendations not hold much water.