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ATi Radeon 9800 Pro

Posted by michael on from the purty-pictures dept.

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.

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  1. For ATI developers: Linux support of R200 Models by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I hope to bring to the attention of ATI developers, if they are reading, that it would be nice to release official driver support for the R200 models (Radeon, Radeon 7500 etc) and only the latest 8000+ models.

    These cards are partly supported by the DRI project on dri.sourceforge.net since they lack important features as texture compression making them useless for games as DoomIII.

    Thanks.

    ps. Or at least, please help the DRI guys complete the great job.

  2. ahem by lingqi · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Why does Nvidia's demo with vid-card shows you this and this, but ATI shows you this? I think we should buy Nvidia based on their sense of ascthetics alone.

    seriously though - was it like last week 9700PRO became available? what's up with this break-neck card-releasing? I didn't think it was christmas yet...

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    My life in the land of the rising sun.

  3. Keep it up ATi. by 13Echo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Keep it up, ATi. Competition is good. I'm really lovin' what I see in the 9X00 series. Keep hammering on improving those Linux drivers while you're at it, because nVidia still has the edge on non-Windows platforms. The day that you release Linux drivers that are on par with those under Windows (as PowerVR and nVidia have done) is the day that I fork out $400 for your car. Rest assured that I will, as long as you back the product.