ATI's next fastest graphic thing will be based on 0.11µ (micron) architecture. This is the natural direction for ATI to migrate from 0.13µ low K marchitecture to pure 0.11µ without low K. When you make things smaller you can possibly clock a chip even higher, but we don't have any idea what frequency ATI is aiming for. That's exactly where its R480 chip is at this time.
Teamhardware had a look at the new Futuremark's 3DMark05. About the same time last year Futuremark released 3DMark03. Now a year later they've released version 2005. Again this program can help you to measure the 3D performance of your system. Like with the older version the program runs series of tests to come up with a score which you can compare with other systems. When we did a first look at 3DMark03 our test system was somewhat outdated and we couldn't run every test. Now with the Radeon 9600 XT in our system we can run every test albeit not very fast.
PCStats has reviewed the Albatron GeForce 6800GT. The nVidia GeForce 6800 GPU is a powerful chip, as are videocards based on it like the Albatron GeForce 6800GT. The 'NV40' GPU is the backbone of the 6800-series, and comes in a couple flavours; 6800 (12 pipe lines), 6800GT (16 rendering pipelines, 350MHz core), 6800 Ultra (16 rendering pipelines, 400MHz core), and the as of yet unavailable 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition (16 rendering pipelines, 450MHz core).
A new version of RivaTuner has been released. The purpose of this utility is to give you access to all the undocumented features of ForceWare and Catalyst Drivers. Drivers have a lot of undocumented registry entries. Some of them don't affect anything, but there are some that are very useful. In general, they cannot give you big Performance Boost but they can improve Image Quality and solve some Compatibility Problems. RivaTuner will help you to change all undocumented registry entries.
A new review at Bjorn3D has seen the daylight. What you will find on our
review bench today is a high-end PowerColor X800 Pro Limited Assassin Edition from Tul. Tul Corporation is a
Tier-1 provider of ATI-based graphic cards.
Tom's Hardware Guide has put up an article on the newest graphic cards. After nearly 10 months, they're back again with an updated version of THG's VGA Charts. This time around, not quite as many new products were launched in 2004. While an abundance of new products flooded the market in 2003, the two market leaders ATI and nVidia held back this year, at least with respect to the number of products launch. At the same time, performance-wise, both graphics processor makers have made great strides with their enthusiast line of products. The performance leap, in fact, was almost desperately needed, as games continue to become more and more demanding with ever-intensifying use of pixel and vertex shaders.
Today AnandTech has posted an review on the Linux behaviour with the newest graphic cards, their drivers and their performance. The focus of this analysis is not to fire up glxgears, and see which program runs it faster. Instead, we want to look at some common graphics intensive applications for Linux and determine how well they run, particularly in relation to their Windows counterparts. We are interested in more than just the benchmark results - getting there is half the fun, and coincidentally, half the weighting for a purchase decision for many of us. Invariably, we will draw some conclusions from one GPU family to another out of the eleven cards that we have chosen to compare today.
What about Rage3D's coverage
in Futuremark's 3DMark05? Another year, another 3DMark. Futuremark is back at it
again with 3DMark05, this time with the same company name! If 3DMark was
a game, it would be a highly-successful game franchise. This is actually the 5th
release of 3DMark, 6th if you include Final Reality. Over 24 million copies of
3DMark03
have been distributed worldwide! This amazing achievement shows both the growing
popularity of 3DMark, as well as the rising awareness of graphics
performance.
XGI, the Taiwanese graphics chip maker, wants to return to market with a stronger family of products. This time, XGI is talking about its chip codenamed XP47, a native PCI Express thing that will have support for Pixel Shader 3.0.
nVidia has an answer for ATI's Hypermemory. nVidia is not ready to talk about it publicly, but we already know quite a bit about it. That's because nVidia is already talking with its big customers about it and telling them how great this marchitecture will be. It will use the PCIe bi-directional bus to use system memory RAM as graphics memory.
ByteSector has put a nice
review together on the ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder 9800 Pro. ATI has been an industry leader in
computer graphics for many years now. They currently lead the market with their
top of the line X800 graphics card and have just released their All-in-Wonder
version of the X800, but who has an extra $600 sitting around to spend on the
top of the line graphics card? The solution, jump down one level to the 9800 Pro
VPU and grab an All-in-Wonder graphics card for less than $400! The Radeon 9800
VPU has many of ATI's latest,
non-HD, features available at your finger tips.
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