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ATI intros new Radeon 9700 Pro GPU

updated 09:10 am EDT, Wed August 7, 2002

 
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ATI today announced its Radeon 9700 PRO graphics board, featuring its 9700 PRO visual processing unit (VPU). The $400 card, based on the Radeon 9700 series VPUs introduced in July, will ship in mid-August shipping date with eight parallel rendering pipelines, 128MB of DDR memory, dual-dispaly (VGA, DVI-I, s-video), AGP 8X support and a fully programmable floating point architecture. The company says tha other retail products based on the Radeon 9700 and Radeon 9000 architectures will be introduced later this year. The Website currently only lists PC compatibility for the graphics card.


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  1. TechLarry

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    08/07, 09:29am | report spam | Reply |

    Where's the VIVO

    Damn, and I REALLY wanted one of these too :( Money in hand, take it!

    But, now I can't. It is very un-ATI like to not provide VIVO features.

    Dont' care about a tuner, just basic VIVO.

    What is it with ATI? They always seem to leave out one feature that prevents them from having the perfect board.

    For $400, I'll wait until it has VIVO capabilities.

    TL

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    08/07, 10:13am | report spam | Reply |

    If Only . . .

    Mac hardware could like the video graphics card industry. It seems like every 6-8 months, they are able to increase the power and speed of their GPU's and video hardware. 8 pipelines to proces pixels! DDR memory.

     

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    08/07, 12:17pm | report spam | Reply |

    Competition.

    There is real Compettion in the Graphics Card market with 2 companys creating a board that does exactly the same thing. Thats why performance the boards continually improve, most FPS PC gamers usually buy at least 1 new graphics card a year.

    This is ATI we are talking about. The Mac drivers will be half arsed, have only half the features, and be 6 months late.

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    08/07, 01:28pm | report spam | Reply |

    re: Competition.

    at least the drivers are better than the nvidia counter parts

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    08/07, 01:32pm | report spam | Reply |

    radeon 9000 mac

    Anybody know when this will ship? macmall has it listed as backordered. I just hope it gets here when I get X.2!

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    08/07, 01:37pm | report spam | Reply |

    Competition is growing

    Please don't ignore all the growing developments in the graphics card market. With the SiS Xabre, Trident XP4, and ATi Radeon 9000, low end cards are getting super good and super cheap. And, not exactly low end, but Matrox recently got their Parahelia card out, which offers graphics pros and gamers a new host of features. Even the legendary Bit Bro's have finally put out reference boards. With 5 companies in the fray (possibly 6!!!), this can only mean good things for both technological development, and the bottom line. We're talking sub $100 cards that do 80% the performance of the GeForce Ti4600. And, only 3 months behind it. No more buying last years card for the budget conscious. After 2.5 years or so of ATi/Nvidia domination, the industry is finally going somewhere. I certainly can't wait. I can't imagine what this means for the mac crowd, but a 3rd CTO arrangement would definitely mean better pricing, better drivers, etc.

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    radeon 9000 mac

    Anybody know when this will ship? macmall has it listed as backordered. I just hope it gets here when I get X.2!

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    128 Megs of DDR RAM?

    It's funny how just a graphics card has just as much RAM than the eMac...

    My only hope is that developers will actually take advantage of all this RAM!

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