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• Fall 2003 Video Card Roundup Part I - ATI's Radeon 9800 XT   [Roundup, AnandTech]
  So today we bring you quite a few new things, some may surprise you, some may not. ATI has released their Fall refresh product – the Radeon 9800XT and they are announcing their Radeon 9600XT. NVIDIA has counterattacked by letting us publish benchmarks from their forthcoming NV38 GPU (the successor to the NV35 based GeForce FX 5900 Ultra). But quite possibly more important than any of those announcements is the suite of benchmarks we’re testing these cards in; how does a total of 15 popular games sound? This is the first installment of a multipart series that will help you decide what video card is best for you, and hopefully it will do a better job than we have ever in the past.
   Fri, 03 Oct, 2003 | 64 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• FX5900 Hoedown: Leadtek WinFast A350 TDH MyVIVO vs. Albatron Gigi FX5900PV   [Review, ExplosiveLabs]
  We don't want to get too technical and get into too much detail about the NV35 core here since there is plenty of coverage out there already. We have gone through some of the more important details you should know about in regarding to this core and will move on. We are looking at retail cards that are available and not reference cards so that is most likely the reason you are reading this. Without further ado lets take a closer look at both the Leadtek Winfast A350 TDH and Albatron Gigi FX5900PV video cards.
   Fri, 03 Oct, 2003 | 125 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• PowerColor Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB   [Review, HardcoreWare]
  Had this review been published 1 day prior, I would be starting off this article touting this as PowerColor's version of ATI's fastest video card available. With the recent announcement of the 9800XT, that is no longer the case. However the XT offers not much more beyond a minor clock speed and memory speed increase, and a beefy heatsink. Currently the 9800XT is only available from ATI, but 3rd party vendors are sure to carry it, most likely replacing the 9800 Pro 256. So while the card we're about to review here is not the fastest ATI anymore, it's not behind by much. And it's still damn fast, as you're about to see.
   Fri, 03 Oct, 2003 | 61 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Preview: ATI Radeon 9800 XT   [Review, ExtremeTech]
  So far, 2003 has been ATI's year. The Radeon 9700 Pro set the standard when it arrived a little over a year ago, and the follow-up Radeon 9800 Pro continued its success. In addition, ATI's value-focused Radeon 9600 and 9500 Pro GPUs have impressed us with the amount of performance they deliver for the money. Today ATI takes the wraps off the Radeon 9800 XT, likely to be the company's last R300-based high-end GPU.
   Fri, 03 Oct, 2003 | 19 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Prolink PixelView GeForce FX 5900 128MB   [Review, Digit-Life]
  Today we will test one more video card based on the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900. It seems that there's nothing to add to this subject. But it's wrong. First of all, High-End products and any alterations in this price niche indicate that the developers work hard trying to improve performance and drivers.
   Fri, 03 Oct, 2003 | 207 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Radeon 9800 XT Review   [Review, HardOCP]
  ATI has come a very long way from where they use to be. Their past is a colorful one. We saw some great hardware that lacked implementation in the drivers to reach its full potential. That all changed when the Radeon 8500 reached it full potential over its life cycle. ATI did a complete 180 with their driver team and introduced the Catalyst Driver program that concentrates on providing a steady and frequent schedule of quality WHQL drivers with each release fixing bugs and typically providing performance increases. ATI has gone from an underdog to a leader in the graphics industry and the enthusiast’s choice when it comes to high-end gaming performance and image quality.
   Fri, 03 Oct, 2003 | 18 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• The ATi Radeon 9800 XT 256MB   [Review, HotHardware]
  Meanwhile, this enormous diversion was exactly what ATi needed, to steal the GeForce FX 5900's thunder, and allow them the ability to ready their mid-life kicker product, that we have for your on the test bench today. The Radeon 9800 XT is based on the "new" R360 VPU, which is basically an R350 with kicked up speeds and feeds, Emeril Lagasee style. True to its branding, the Radeon 9800 XT doesn't bring any changes in graphics core architecture, but rather delivers just a bit more of a good thing, ever-precious clock speed.
   Fri, 03 Oct, 2003 | 19 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• AOpen Aeolus FX5600S (GeForce FX 5600) Review   [Review, SharkyExtreme]
  The video card race has rapidly become one of placing a market leader at virtually every price point. It's no longer enough to have the king of the performance block and then hope buyers beat a trail to your mid-range and entry-level options; a company has to provide the goods at each position. This was the strategy behind the Radeon 9600 Pro, and although it was less powerful than the Radeon 9500 Pro, ATI could produce inexpensively, and it still competed well at this level.
   Wed, 01 Oct, 2003 | 120 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ATI on Top at The Rock   [Article, XbitLabs]
  Read about the unprecedented event on Alcatraz island in San Francisco, where ATI announced the new RADEON 9xxx XT product family based on R360 graphics chip. Enjoy the great show and stay tuned for our indepth coverage on the performance and features of the new ATI solution!
   Wed, 01 Oct, 2003 | 18 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ATI R360 / RV360 and the new Generation of RADEON   [Article, LostCircuits]
  Today, ATI announced their new top and mainstream models for the next few months to come. After the somewhat confusing model politics of the 9xxx series, the new models will basically encompass two lines of distinct architecture based on the R360 and the RV360 VPU, respecitvely, that will aim either at the high end or else at the mainstream consumer.
   Wed, 01 Oct, 2003 | 40 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ATI's Radeon 9800 XT graphics card   [Review, Tech-Report]
  The Radeon 9800 XT is based on ATI's R360 chip, which is essentially a minor revision of the R350 chip used in the Radeon 9800 Pro. The chip is still fabbed by TMSC using 0.15-micron process technology. ATI has modified R360 silicon in order to clean up some trouble areas and to allow for higher clock speeds. Beyond that, the R360 has all the familiar R350 features, including support for floating-point pixel formats, programmable shaders, and F-buffer logic that enables longer shader programs without conventional multipass rendering. With the tweaks, the Radeon 9800 XT has reached new highs: a 412MHz core clock speed with an effective 730MHz clock speed on its DDR memory. That's just a step or two up from the 380/700MHz core and memory speeds of the 9800 Pro 256MB.
   Wed, 01 Oct, 2003 | 25 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Computex 2003 - nVidia NV36 FX5700 Videocards   [Article, PCStats]
  Walking by the seven story high poster of "Dawn," the 'sexed-up' spokes-pixie for nVidia every day at the arrival to Computex 2003 sets the tone for what has undoubtedly continued to be an unabrashed battle against between nVidia and arch rival ATI.
   Wed, 01 Oct, 2003 | 117 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Dependence of Contemporary High-End Graphics Accelerators Performance on FSAA Mode: VisionTek Xtasy   [Review, XbitLabs]
  Two excellent graphics accelerators from Leadtek and VisionTek appeared in our lab. Their performance proved beyond all expectations. However, how greatly does the performance of contemporary High-End graphics accelerators drop as soon as we enable various modes of full-screen anti-aliasing? This is the topic of our today’s story.
   Wed, 01 Oct, 2003 | 15 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• GAINWARD FX 5200 POWERPACK PRO/660 TV/DVI PCI   [Review, Hexus]
  Gainward, the purveyor of multiple models based on a single NVIDIA GPU, has decided that the FX5200 GPU is ripe for some PCI lovin'. That's right, a PCI-based DX9 card. Given the low bandwidth that a 32-bit PCI bus affords (133MB/s), and the low performance output of the FX5200, it'll be interesting to see how this card performs. More importantly, we feel, is the card's potential uses. Let's now get to the bottom of this unusual graphics adapter.
   Wed, 01 Oct, 2003 | 344 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• MSI GeForce FX5600 Ultra   [Review, Hexus]
  So, it was good to look at the two main competitors for your money in that sector recently. Both reference boards, NVIDIA's GeForce FX5600 Ultra (revision 2) and ATI's Radeon 9600 Pro, they went head to head for the title of fastest mid-range card. NVIDIA emerged victorious, an inspired increase in clocks over the original 5600 Ultra, along with a pseudo-crippled 9600 Pro from ATI (compared to 9500 Pro, a quicker solution), conspiring to hand NVIDIA the win.
   Wed, 01 Oct, 2003 | 105 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Radeon 9100 IGP vs value VGA - Getting acquainted   [Review, UKGamer]
  Value graphics, a dirty word in the vocabulary of gaming is something that we love to ignore but times maybe changing thanks to ATI. The ability of a integrated graphics chipset to rival value graphics cards is something that dreams were made of. The Radeon 9100 IGP aims to make that dream a reality.
   Wed, 01 Oct, 2003 | 45 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Radeon 9600 XT and Radeon 9800 XT Tech Brief   [Article, Neoseeker]
  Just under 6 months ago, ATi had started shipping the Radeon 9800 Pro, which was the successor to the also highly popular Radeon 9700 Pro. Having set the standard with the Radeon 9700 Pro, many gamers wondered if ATi could outperform itself.
   Wed, 01 Oct, 2003 | 60 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Ready For The Winter Games: ATI Radeon 9800 XT   [Review, TomsHardware]
  With the Radeon 9800 XT ATI extends it product line upwards. The XT is clocked higher than the current top product and comes with a bunch of interesting features - not to forget an exclusive bundle of the game Half-Life 2 and ASUS as a new board partner. How the card performs or how the ASUS Radeon 9800 XT looks and much more you can find inside the article...
   Wed, 01 Oct, 2003 | 10 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• ABIT Siluro FX5900 OTES Review   [Review, HardOCP]
  A look at the new card from ABIT is based on the GeForceFX 5900 core and comes with a completely new OTES cooling solution. Let's see how it compares to the competition using current games.
   Mon, 29 Sep, 2003 | 39 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail

• Radeon 9x00 RoundUp   [Roundup, Digit-Life]
  So, let's get back on the track. Today we have only RADEON 9600 PRO and 9600 within the DX9 line which are weaker than the RADEON 9800 PRO. But these cards are much cheaper than the RADEON 9800 PRO. So, what will be between them? RADEON 9700 PRO/9700 based cards are not produced anymore. One of the expected solutions was the RADEON 9800 with lower clock speeds. The same PCB comes with cheaper and slower memory (3.3ns) and chips clocked at 325 MHz (i.e. which do not operate properly at 380MHz). The solution is similar to the RADEON 9700 PRO though the clock speeds are 325/590 MHz instead of 325/620. But the difference is almost unnoticeable. The gap between $300 and $350 is now filled up, and the 9700 PRO is done away with.
   Mon, 29 Sep, 2003 | 238 Click(s) | Related: Reviews or Talks | Detail