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Radeon 9700 Pro: ATI Ahead

Posted by Hemos on Thursday January 2, 2003 @03:08AM from the battle-rages-on dept.

Keefe writes "The epic battle between ATI and Nvidia wages on. While Nvidia awaits arrival of their near-fabled NV30 for redemption, ATI conquers all by introducing the fastest and most advanced graphics card to date. The next-generation ATI Radeon 9700 Pro marks the second time Nvidia cedes the performance crown to ATI (the first time being the brief glory when the ATI Rage Fury beat the Nvidia TNT). See how the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro stacks up at Techware Labs."

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Re:Eh? by spanky1 · 2003-01-02 03:55 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Heh... funny, but a bit inaccurate. Neither the 386SX nor 386DX had a mathco. The SX had a 16-bit external bus while the DX had a 32-bit external bus. You're thinking of the 486SX vs 486DX (SX had no working mathco and the DX had a built-in mathco).
Re:Eh? by Waffle+Iron · 2003-01-02 04:00 · Score: 1, Offtopic

386 Released with a math CoProcessor reviews explaining the performance difference between the 386SX and 386DX here
Feh. Benchmark this: Weitek sold a 3-chip FP coprocessor for the 386 that was over twice as fast as the 387. (IIRC, it was memory mapped over a large address space; the opcodes were encoded on the adress lines.)
The advent of integrated FPUs put a bit of a damper on their business model, though.
Does it support OGG? by peterpi · 2003-01-02 07:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I can't believe anybody still listens to MP3; it's such a lame format.