ATi Radeon 9800 Pro

ATi is bringing out their new card, the Radeon 9800 Pro, and all of the hardware review sites which depend on ATi's generosity for pre-release hardware have released their necessarily favorable reviews. Here's a few: Hothardware.com, Hexus.net, HardOCP.com, Anandtech, Tom's Hardware, Extremetech, PCWorld.

Comments

Another Review

[MjDascombe]

As if you didn't have enough - This one is quite good.

Anandtech

[Anonymous Coward]

The Anandtech's article shows interesting effects when underclocking the 9800 to same values of 9700. Performance is equal without AA or Anisotropic filtering, but with filtering 9800 is 10 to 30% faster.

Re:Anandtech

[Rushuru]

if you use a Gecko browser (mozilla phoenix galeon), you can get rid of those annoying flash ads by using a special 'userContent.css'

Put that file in the chrome subdirectory of you mozilla profile, and all the flash ads on anandtech & other sites should be gone, without breaking legitimate flash usage (stupid games, awkward menus, 900kB site intros, etc.)

Re:Independent review sites?

[stroudie]

For what its worth, the Register also has a review.

They may not be any more independent, but at least they're honest...

Re:Independent review sites?

[UberLord]

As an admin for DriverHeaven the only kinda freebies we get for reviewing products is the product itself - usually on loan.

Payola? Damn - I really wish there was some!

BTW, here's our ATI 9800 Pro review ;)
http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/r350/index.htm

Re:For ATI developers: Linux support of R200 Model

[Elendil]

From XFree86 4.3.0 release notes:

2.1. Video Driver Enhancements

* ATI Radeon 9x00 2D support added, and 3D support added for the Radeon 8500, 9000, 9100, and M9. The 3D support for the Radeon now includes hardware TCL.

Looks like pretty good support to me... I really prefer that to a binary-only driver such as NVidia's.