ATI Releases Five New Radeons

An anonymous reader writes "Eager to retake the performance crown from NVIDIA, ATI has announced five new releases for their Radeon product line. The latest card features 512MB GDDR4 memory running at 1000Mhz, it's currently the fastest single CPU VGA card out there. From the review: 'ATI has proven they are a leader and not a follower with the X1950 XTX. ATI has released the world's first consumer 3D graphics card with GDDR4 memory clocked at the highest ever stock speed that chews through games when it comes to high definition gaming. Memory bandwidth looks to once again be the defining factor in 3D performance. With a re-designed heatsink/fan unit, faster memory, and lowered price, the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX and CrossFire Edition are both serious 3D gaming video cards for the [H]ardcore that offer some value over NVIDIA's more expensive 7950 GX2. ATI's CrossFire dual GPU gaming platform looks to have just grown up.'"

Comments

Screw ATI

[Anonymous Coward]

What I want to know is where can I get the world's fastest accelerated EGA graphics card? I want to play Kings Quest II.

Re:Screw ATI

[LiquidCoooled]

I've got a crate full of Diamond Stealth 3d 2000 cards to sell if you are interested.

They have 2MB of EDO memory (upgradable to 4) for the ultimate experience.

It runs on PCI. Express graphics are guaranteed.

Re:Screw ATI

[MrNixon]

Yeah.

RISC is good.

Re:Screw ATI

[Ed Avis]

You're forgetting the naming conventions of gaming hardware reviews. Remember that a video card is called a VGA, a hard disk is called a hard drive, memory is called sticks, and most importantly a computer is always called a rig. (A fast computer is a 'sweet rig'.)

Re:Screw ATI

[briggsb]

Who needs EGA? I'm still waiting for this card with text game acceleration.

pffft

[gEvil (beta)]

Pffft. I'll wait for the multicore versions of these cards. Aren't ATI and NVIDIA aware that dualcore is the new buzzword in computing?!?

The sincerest form of flattery

[spyrochaete]

This does indeed look like a fantastic video card, but I found this comment from TFA a little funny:

ATI has proven they are a leader and not a follower with the X1950 XTX

No, X1950 XTX, ATI's top of the line card, sounds nothing like Nvidia's top model, 7950GTX.

Re:The sincerest form of flattery

[TheDreadSlashdotterD]

You're right, ATI has more X for XTREME!!! It has to be BETXERXXXXER!!!

Radeon Definition

[Lev13than]

Please note that the term "Radeon" is not an official definition. The term was recently proposed by the International Videocard Union to define a "Graphics card which costs less than $200 American dollars to purchase and whose shape is more highly inclined and angular than a traditional card".
This definition causes all sorts of problems, such as how to define dual-card setups and what happens when a Radeon is attached to a daughter card rather than a motherboard. Videostronomers are currently divided between those who favour the term "Radeon" and those who argue that we should stick with the current definition favoured by consumers, which is "the weird square-ish blue plug at the back of my Dell".

Graphics card naming...

[RShizzle]

I don't get how appending more X's, T's and the occasional G to ever increasing numbers help me understand the capabilities of a card... except that it's *Awesome* and I HAVE to buy it!

About time

[salad_fingers]

I can finally play Wolf3d on 200x AA. Took long enough...

Re:Linux support from ATI=crap

[Anonymous Coward]

because not everyone has Linux

My motto: if it doesn't have Linux, it should!

OT: What's with the alphabet soup?

[thatguywhoiam]

ATI Radeon X1950 XTX and CrossFire Edition

Is there some kind of rule that says we can only use letters like X, N, R, and words like CrossFire, to denote 'cool' products mainly aimed at men?

Just once I'd like to see an ATI Shiny B001 LALA and FluffyPants Edition. Just to shake things up.