Omega65
5 Oct 2005, 4:26pm
It seems the NDA on the new ATI GPUs has lifted.....
R520,RV530 Reviews:
Techreport (http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2005q4/radeon-x1000/index.x?pg=1)
PCPerspective (http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=172)
Hexus.net (http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=3603)
TBreak (http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?id=407)
Anandtech (http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2552)
Guru3D (http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/262/)
HotHardware (http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articleid=734&cid=2)
From a pure graphics technology standpoint, the Radeon X1000 series of graphics processors doesn't break new ground with bold innovations, but it does give ATI nearly every feature that the GeForce 7 series GPUs have had over the Radeon X800s. Not only that, but ATI has added a number of worthwhile capabilities, including multisampled antialiasing with high-dynamic-range color modes, "free" tone mapping via the Avivo display engine, and much finer-grained batch sizes for dynamic flow control in Shader Model 3.0. ATI has also caught up with NVIDIA on the internal chip architecture front by decoupling the computational units responsible for the various stages of the graphics pipeline from one another, allowing more flexibility for the development adventurous variations on the core GPU architecture, like the RV530.
R520,RV530 Reviews:
Techreport (http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2005q4/radeon-x1000/index.x?pg=1)
PCPerspective (http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=172)
Hexus.net (http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=3603)
TBreak (http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?id=407)
Anandtech (http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2552)
Guru3D (http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/262/)
HotHardware (http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articleid=734&cid=2)
From a pure graphics technology standpoint, the Radeon X1000 series of graphics processors doesn't break new ground with bold innovations, but it does give ATI nearly every feature that the GeForce 7 series GPUs have had over the Radeon X800s. Not only that, but ATI has added a number of worthwhile capabilities, including multisampled antialiasing with high-dynamic-range color modes, "free" tone mapping via the Avivo display engine, and much finer-grained batch sizes for dynamic flow control in Shader Model 3.0. ATI has also caught up with NVIDIA on the internal chip architecture front by decoupling the computational units responsible for the various stages of the graphics pipeline from one another, allowing more flexibility for the development adventurous variations on the core GPU architecture, like the RV530.