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• DirectX Next Early Preview   [Article, Beyond3d]
  So, maybe you’re wondering what ATI’s future R500 or NVIDIA’s NV50 chips may have in store but know that if you were to ask either company you’d get the brick wall response: "Sorry, we cannot comment on unannounced projects or products". Well, it’s a pretty good guess that whatever features Microsoft’s DirectX may make available, future 3D hardware is more or less going to follow it in terms of features, so why not start there? Recently Microsoft have been dishing out to developers the directions that "DirectX Next" may take at Microsoft’s Meldown conference. The presentations given to developers have recently been made available and here Beyond3D takes a good look at the types of features and functionality that may be available in the next major update to DirectX.
   Wed, 03 Dec, 2003 | 42 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Gigabyte GeForce FX 5950 Ultra   [Review, HardwareZoom]
  Gigabtye has been an ardent fan of the Radeons, but ever since coming back to terms with nVidia, they too are jumping into the FX bandwagon. And to be honest really, the first batch of FX 5950 of any manufacturer looked the same as the nVidia reference card. According to some sources, nVidia provides the initial first batch because it was a proven design and they didn't want anything to go wrong with other R&D on their design. Make a lot of sense, but that also means a shortage of these cards to go around. So do expect an expensive price tag for a start.
   Wed, 03 Dec, 2003 | 59 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• The Asus Radeon 9800 and 9600 XT   [Review, HotHardware]
  A few months ago, rumors began to circulate that alleged ASUSTeK Computer Inc. (aka Asus), a long-time provider of NVIDIA based graphics products, was poised to launch a new line of video cards based on ATi's popular Radeon GPUs. Asus had been a steadfast NVIDIA partner for quite a few years, but it seemed like NVIDIA's recent troubles had forced some of their most loyal cohorts to look at competing products. A shot while later, the rumors proved to be true and now we've got two ATi powered, Asus built video cards burning up our monitors here in the HotHardware labs. The products we'll be looking at today, the Asus Radeon 9800 XT/TVD and Radeon 9600 XT/TVD are both equipped with customer cooling solutions and boast some of the most impressive feature-sets and bundles in their respective market segments.
   Wed, 03 Dec, 2003 | 172 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ASUS Radeon 9800 and 9600 XT/VTD Review   [Review, Beyond3d]
  In a move that may open up the VGA board vendor market to a greater level of competition, ASUS have recently started a dual source of graphics chips by adding ATI based boards to their product line-up. Half of their line of ATI boards consists of ATI’s new Radeon XT boards, the 9800 XT and 9600 XT. Here Beyond3D takes a look at both the ASUS Radeon 9800 XT/VTD and ASUS Radeon 9600 XT/VTD and see how they differ from ATI’s reference specification.
   Tue, 02 Dec, 2003 | 113 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• NV36 Hits Retail : Gainward’s Ultra/960 GeForceFX 5700 Ultra   [Review, GamePC]
  nVidia is trying to position their new GeForceFX 5700 Ultra processor as "the new GeForce4 Ti4200". While it may seem ridiculous to call upon past successes when launching a new product, consumers have been begging for a "new Ti4200" for quite some time now. The Ti4200 card was so incredibly popular as it offered the same processor architecture as nVidia’s higher-end GeForce4 Ti4400 and Ti4600 cards, just at slower clock speeds. In turn, Ti4200 cards were offered with lower price tags, even though many of them could be overclocked to the Ti4600's clock speed levels. Thus, the Ti4200 quickly became known as the price-to-performance card of its time.
   Tue, 02 Dec, 2003 | 191 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Sapphire All-In-Wonder RADEON 9800 PRO   [Review, Digit-Life]
  In the review of the ATI All-In-Wonder RADEON 9700 PRO card we mentioned that ATI occupies a leading position in the sector of graphics cards with multimedia features. But after that we tested several such cards from NVIDIA which also have unique features, for example, the Leadtek WinFast A180 TDH Cinema comes with an FM tuner.
   Tue, 02 Dec, 2003 | 98 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Sapphire RADEON 9600 PRO Video Card and Video-In on ATI Latest Cards   [Review, Digit-Life]
  We got used to the fact that at least once a half year the card makers release new solutions that have only 5-10% performance boost and differ only in a letter and or a figure in their names. But market is market, and 3D functions are not the only distinguishing factor. Probably, the most frequently used bonus is a video-in.
   Tue, 02 Dec, 2003 | 82 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Sub-$100 3Digest: The End of 2003   [Roundup, Digit-Life]
  Unfortunately, the sub-$100 sector covers a lot of various cards: initially targeted at the low-end market and those which jumped from the middle-end sector. The prices vary a lot! There are GeForce2 MXs, first RADEON releases, and GeForce4 MXs with 64bit buses standing next to them... The same mishmash is in the upper subsector of $60 to $80.
   Tue, 02 Dec, 2003 | 95 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ASUS Radeon 9800 XT: Turning-point   [Review, Digital-Daily]
  Today, we can assert these days are counted. Asus as one of the oldest and most reliable partners of NVidia is now producing ATI video cards and preserves the nVidia line, thus having overcome the many year tradition of "single-supplier" partnership. GIGABYTE a bit earlier also announced the manufacture of cards from both leading manufacturers of graphic chips. But in fact Asus has already produced its first video card on the ATI chip, Asus RADEON 9800 XT, which is lying on our test bed today.
   Sat, 22 Nov, 2003 | 71 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ATI Radeon 9600 All-in-Wonder Pro   [Review, bytesector]
  ATI Technologies is responsible for creating some of the most powerful video cards available on the consumer market today. The Radeon 9600, 9700 and 9800 rocked the gaming world with their powerful GPU's (Graphics Processing Units) and large memory configurations. Today we are privileged enough to have ATI's latest addition to the 9000 series cards; The Radeon 9600 All-in-Wonder Pro. This card is EVERYTHING that anyone could ever want. Some of the included features are built in TV tuner, built in FM tuner, TV and FM-on-demand, SmartShader 2.0, SmoothVision 2.1, dual display support and a whole lot more. I can say I was eagerly awaiting the arrival of this card and now that its here I am not disappointed one bit.
   Sat, 22 Nov, 2003 | 114 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• GeForce FX Go5700 Preview   [Preview, Bjorn3d]
  Today, NVIDIA will be unveiling the new GeForce FX Go5700 mobile GPU. Since the introduction of Go5650 solution (September 14th, 2003), most of us were a bit skeptical if NVIDIA could really keep their performance crown in the mobile market. The obvious reason for that is ATI's aggressive position with a recently introduced Mobility Radeon 9600 GPU, which beat NVIDIA's last offering in terms of performance. Based on preliminary scores, it looks like ATI's M10 will be keeping the performance crown (M11 is the next mobility chip from ATI).
   Sat, 22 Nov, 2003 | 198 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Creative 3D Blaster 5 FX5900   [Review, Beyond3d]
  Although seemingly not heavily publicised, Creative Europe sell a second flavour of NVIDIA’s GeForce FX 5900 alongside their Ultra version. The Creative 3DBlaster 5 FX5900 represents a slightly lower end version, however this Creative board doesn’t follow most other manufacturers vanilla 5900 configuration, but one commonly referred to as the 5900 Value. Here Beyond3D takes a full rundown of the Creative 3DBlaster 5 FX5900 performance in comparison to a vanilla 5900 and 5900 Ultra.
   Mon, 17 Nov, 2003 | 136 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• 3D Prophet All-In-Wonder 9800SE   [Review, Hexus]
  While considering ways to start this article, it occurred to me that the card on test possibly ought not to exist. With benchmarking done and a set of performance numbers which with to reference, along with an overview of the feature set and price, it seemed strange to me that ATI authorised Hercules to produce it (if indeed ATI could control that). You'll see why as the review progresses.
   Sat, 15 Nov, 2003 | 441 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ASUS RADEON 9800 XT   [Review, LostCircuits]
  One of the most earth-shaking turnarounds in the graphics adapter scene has been the announcement by ASUS to support the latest graphics cores made by ATI. Needless to say that ASUS as the number one graphics card manufacturer in the world (in volume) can also throw in a wealth of experience with respect to hardware and driver customization.
   Sat, 15 Nov, 2003 | 69 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Review: nVidia's New ForceWare Drivers   [Review, ExtremeTech]
  Graphics processors are extremely complex these days. With over 100 million transistors, current high-end graphics chips have more logic than even the biggest CPUs. With all that silicon and increasingly-programmable APIs, low-level GPU programming is growing exponentially more intricate. It's crucial to have good drivers, but exactly what defines a "good driver" is a complicated question.
   Sun, 09 Nov, 2003 | 156 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ATI RADEON 9600 XT vs. NVIDIA GeForce FX5700 Ultra   [Review, XbitLabs]  
  We tested the new graphics cards based on NVIDIA and ATI chips and targeted for the mainstream market segment. I would say that it is much more interesting than comparing NV38 to RADEON 9800 XT, because these particular 200-dollar graphics cards will be sold best of all. Let’s find out more about them now!
   Thu, 06 Nov, 2003 | 1256 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ATI Radeon 9800 XT Visual Gaming Performance   [Review, TweakTown]
  nVidia or ATi? This question once inundated our consumer-tech industry, in search for the ultimate means of graphic entertainment. Due to press in the last couple of months - throughout benchmarks, driver updates, and reviews - it is correct to announce ATi as the current performance leader in the video card industry for mainstream and enthusiast gamers. The line that most certainly bought ATi their newfound fame is the highly-hyped and critically-acclaimed Radeon 9700 series; the latest and most powerful of which is now the Radeon 9800 XT.
   Thu, 06 Nov, 2003 | 57 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ATI Radeon 9800 XT with OverDrive Benchmarked   [Review, SharkyExtreme]
  High-end video card releases have traditionally been comprised of new architectures coupled with increased clock speeds, with any one option coming to the fore depending on the R&D schedule. ATI has been at the forefront of this technology race, and with the exceptional R300 and R350 cores, provided a virtually unbeatable combination of features, performance and image quality. The latest ATI high-end product used the new R360 core, and while the Radeon 9800 XT did follow previous designs and allowed higher-than Radeon 9800 Pro clock speeds, ATI also gave us something new.
   Thu, 06 Nov, 2003 | 76 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Sapphire Radeon 9600 Atlantis 256MB   [Review, Rage3d]  
  Introduced last fall, the RV350 based Radeon 9600 was meant both as a replacement for the more expensive to produce RV300 based Radeon 9500 and as a "proof of concept" for ATIs ability to design a .13µ graphics chip. While still not as fast as the 9500 Pro, 9600 Pros are never-the-less very popular today and are excellent performers when compared to cards in the same market segment from other companies.
   Thu, 06 Nov, 2003 | 502 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• XFX GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 256-MB Review   [Review, SharkyExtreme]
  NVIDIA had a long road from the GeForce FX 5800 to the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra, but it looks to have paid off. The original GeForce FX/NV30 technology was simply not up to par with ATI's best, and ran hot, featured expensive DDR-II memory, and a cooling design that launched a thousand jokes. The latest GeForce FX 5900/NV35 technology represented a shift toward more consumer-friendly designs, and included a more realistic cooling design, 256-bit DDR memory, and an upgrade to overall performance levels.
   Thu, 06 Nov, 2003 | 204 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail