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Written by Phyro
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Monday, 27 September 2004 |
TrustedReviews has published their view on the ATI Radeon X700 XT. It was only a couple of weeks ago that I looked at the GeForce 6600 GT, which is nVidia's new mid-range offering, and it proved to be a pretty capable solution at a reasonable price. So, unsurprisingly, ATI has just launched a new mid-range card as well – the Radeon X700. Like the GeForce 6600, the Radeon X700 will come in multiple flavours offering differing levels or performance, and consequently different levels of pricing. Top of the range will be the X700 XT, which is set to go head to head with the GeForce 6600 GT.
 ATI Radeon X700 XT - Reference Board
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Written by Phyro
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Monday, 27 September 2004 |
Also Anandtech has been looking at the optimizations from the ATI. Coinciding with the launch of the X700 line of graphics cards, ATI slipped a little something extra into its driver. The lastest beta version of Catalyst that we got our hands on includes a feature called Catalyst AI. Essentially, ATI took all their optimizations, added a few extra goodies, and rolled it all together into one package.
Behind the Mask with Optimization and Catalyst AI
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Written by Mavke
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Monday, 27 September 2004 |
nV News has gotten their hands on a Gainward PowerPack! Ultra/2100 Golden Sample. The subject of this review is definitely a flashy video card in many ways. Those familiar with Gainward are probably used to the long naming scheme, as this is something they've stuck with for years. The company was founded in 1984, and enjoyed success in the early 3D accelerator days using the CARDEXpert name. Around the time of Geforce2, Gainward implemented the industry's first "Overclocked out of the box" line of cards, the Golden Sample line. Using hand-picked components, this line of cards features higher-than-normal clockspeeds, and a robust non-reference pcb design built to take the heat from the higher speeds.
Gainward PowerPack! Ultra/2100 Geforce 6800 Golden Sample 128MB Review
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Written by Mavke
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Sunday, 26 September 2004 |
This weekend Hexus has published their review on the ASUS Extreme N5900 128MB PCIe and ASUS Extreme AX600 XT 128MB PCIe graphics cards. PCI Express is the buzzword in the graphics card industry right now. It kind of makes implicit sense, too. Before PCI Express (PCIe), the preferred protocol for transferring data to and from a graphics card was AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port). Its 32-bit-wide data bus is pegged at 66MHz. A bit of simple maths and you'll discover that standard AGP has a transfer rate of 264MB/s. Current protocol speed is up to 8X standard, or around 2.1GB/s bandwidth. That's fine and well for older games but newer titles utilise massive texture data that will, in a while, begin to swamp the bus' bandwidth ability. Not only that, the PCIe protocol ensures that bandwidth is reserved when needed, HDTV, for example.
ASUS Extreme N5900 & AX600 XT 128MB PCI-E Review
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Written by xtremetheme
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Saturday, 25 September 2004 |
Team Akiba has set up a new overclocking record, pushing a Intel P4 560 (stock speed 3,6GHz) to 6009MHz! The Intel P4 560 ran at 6009MHz (333MHz FSB x 18 Multiplier) with 1.68V. It was cooled with liquid nitrogen cooling, bringing the cpu under -100°C.
Akiba PC-Tuning Highest achieved CPU frequency
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Written by Phyro
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Saturday, 25 September 2004 |
The level of fear uncertainty and doubt generated by a document purporting to be about problems with ATI chips received its nemesis yesterday when the PCI Sig issued a statement on its web site.
PCI SIG refutes anti-ATI claims
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Written by Mavke
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Saturday, 25 September 2004 |
Cheats. Optimisations. Application detection. Shader replacement. All words that have been bandied around ad infinitum over the past eighteen months or so. All words that have been grouped together under the same, evil, moniker, a legacy of the revelations surrounding nVidia's GeForce FX boards and drivers. Where in the past every performance improvement in a new driver release was greeted with glee, now it is greeted with disdain and mumblings of conspiracy under the breath.
Catalyst A.I. - The future of optimisations?
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Written by Phyro
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Saturday, 25 September 2004 |
And claims 22% Doom III boost with ATI Catalyst. Terry Makedon, a senior product manager, largely talked about those, but he did say the firm is readying a major push in the next few weeks to outline its plans for Linux driver support. He said that ATI has three main goals for Linux. He said that ATI supports Linux which represents around four per cent of the market, and that the firm's Linux efforts are proportional to the market.
ATI readies big Linux driver push
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Written by Phyro
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Saturday, 25 September 2004 |
Accusations and counter accusations between ATI and nVidia have led to a virtual graphics war of the words. The first salvo from the greens came from an nVidia agent, who insisted that its PCI Express platform was better than its Canadian competitor, ATI.
Unholy war breaks out between nVidia and ATI
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Written by Mavke
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Friday, 24 September 2004 |
Digit-Life took a look at one of the biggest titles in the gaming world... Yes indeed Doom 3... New standards, new technologies, new methods – they all detach Doom 3 from the original Doom much faster than almost complete replacement of staff in id Software for this decade.
Doom 3 Article
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