Author Topic: ATI Radeon 9700 (Read 1135 times)

bloom25 · « **on:** July 18, 2002, 05:10:10 PM »

Those of you planning on spending $400 for a video card may want to hold out a month for this one. It seems to be beating the GeForce 4 Ti 4600 badly.

http://www.anandtech.com has a review.

Animal · « **Reply #1 on:** July 18, 2002, 05:13:54 PM »

Awesome card it seems. Even though I have a Geforce 4 Ti4600, I am happy to see this. It means the technology is moving faster than ever. In two years the graphics in PC games will look better than real life

Skuzzy · « **Reply #2 on:** July 18, 2002, 06:29:43 PM »

It scored over 14,000 3DMarks at E3. If they get the drivers right this time, NVidia is finally going to have serious competition.

Just think of the CPU you will need to keep that card busy though. hehe.

Animal · « **Reply #3 on:** July 18, 2002, 06:58:37 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
It scored over 14,000 3DMarks at E3. If they get the drivers right this time, NVidia is finally going to have serious competition.

Just think of the CPU you will need to keep that card busy though. hehe.

That doesnt impress me. What impresses me is that the Geforce 4 scored around 4,000 with FSAA, and the ATi scored 10,000 with the same level of FSAA.

I WANT THAT.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #4 on:** July 18, 2002, 07:21:10 PM »

Hehe,..it sure do look good. I think I might actually go out and buy this thing when it hits the streets. Of course,...when they move to .13u process in March,...its gonna get faster again. Damn technology!

LePaul · « **Reply #5 on:** July 19, 2002, 09:15:19 AM »

I was reading that article too

Personally, I'm more interested in the real data/numbers from a real production card. But, its been 6 months, time for all our $350 video cards to be worthless again

Skuzzy · « **Reply #6 on:** July 19, 2002, 01:30:40 PM »

Yep LePaul,..I am anxious to see what clock rates they settle on for production, but it does show some rather nice potential.

I wonder what NVidia card prices are going to do over the next couple of weeks? Gonna be interesting.

LePaul · « **Reply #7 on:** July 19, 2002, 01:48:50 PM »

Prices dropping is generally good...I'm happy I got my 4600 for $300 versus what they are everywhere else ($350, $379, etc etc)

Kind of like buying a new car...when the next model year comes around and you see what the NEW models have, you kinda sigh and move on

bloom25 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 19, 2002, 01:57:19 PM »

It's a given that every few months something new will come out that is a great improvement over the previous state of the art. In video cards that is especially true.

It's good to see ATI offer some serious competition to nVidia though, it's been quite a while since that has happened.

Hristo · « **Reply #9 on:** July 23, 2002, 08:59:23 AM »

How about ATI drivers ? Recently bought Radeon 8500, W2K and P4 1800 MHz. Tried 3ds max in OpenGL mode, lockup. Reboot, again, lockup.

Downloaded new drivers, all OK. Funny, all I heard about ATI drivers came true

Skuzzy · « **Reply #10 on:** July 23, 2002, 01:12:22 PM »

For you guys that are into the 3DMark thing.

Just FYI,..MadOnion has a posted score of an ATI9700 at 15,479 3DMarks. Of course,..it was with a 3Ghz P4.

minus · « **Reply #11 on:** July 23, 2002, 01:47:17 PM »

hmmm dont tryed this one, but ordered MATROX Parhelia 512
it seems beet up even more , any one already have it ?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #12 on:** July 23, 2002, 02:01:21 PM »

Uh minus,...the 9700 crushed the Parhelia. The Parhelia really has not fared well in performance tests. Not as well as one would think it should do.

mason22 · « **Reply #13 on:** July 23, 2002, 02:58:47 PM »

i think the only thing the Parhelia has that's worth a darn is the 3 monitor support.

other than that, radeon is on a comeback it seems.

i'm still crunchin away with my ol' Gefroce2 ULTRA...gonna hold out as long as i can since AH is pretty much the only thing i play anyhow.

minus · « **Reply #14 on:** July 23, 2002, 03:06:01 PM »

uh uh well, now using GE3 and the constant 75im/s well do no what with more, but 2 D quality pising me off in Ge force,s and the real high quality dual wiew and beter performances like ge4 and same price stil can cancel , but where a HELL to find the ATI then ????