ATI Radeon X1000 series Reviews

5 Oct, 2005 at 11:26am ET Article published in Tech

It seems the NDA on the new ATI GPUs has lifted…..

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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.

Comments

5 Oct 2005 ~ 1:26pm Gobbles gotta say now.. ati is kinda screwed. performance on those cards suck.
5 Oct 2005 ~ 3:12pm Jengo im gonna have to agree with gobbles, ATi You arent what you used to be.
5 Oct 2005 ~ 4:41pm GHoosdum It's sad that ATI has, at best, merely caught up with nVidia this round of the Graphics Card Wars.

My 9800 Pro is still good enough for me!
5 Oct 2005 ~ 5:02pm CyrixInstead Wow how fickle we all are. If you swapped the words ATI & nVidia over and renamed the cards talked about, this could have been a thread from 18 months ago!

~Cyrix
5 Oct 2005 ~ 5:26pm Thrax Looks like nVidia learned from their FX 5x00 lesson. Sorry ATI.
5 Oct 2005 ~ 5:28pm airbornflght hmph...never have really liked ati. but i just go with whats doing the best performance at the moment. ati has fallen behind though. Less than what i expected.
5 Oct 2005 ~ 6:08pm RWB The throne will change again soon. It always does.
5 Oct 2005 ~ 6:25pm Jengo I dunno... Nvidia seems to be cranking out cards faster then my grandma.. and good ones at that!

While ATi's card aint far behind, it IS behind.
5 Oct 2005 ~ 8:39pm GHoosdum

Jengo wrote:

I dunno... Nvidia seems to be cranking out cards faster then my grandma.. and good ones at that!

While ATi's card aint far behind, it IS behind.

Your Grandma... does she crank out video cards or greeting cards? If it's the former, count me in!
6 Oct 2005 ~ 12:01am Jengo

GHoosdum wrote:

Your Grandma... does she crank out video cards or greeting cards? If it's the former, count me in!
6 Oct 2005 ~ 8:37am jradmin All I can do is laugh about this. the 6800GT has been out for well over a year and its kicking the crap out of its ATI BRAND NEW counterpart. Benchmarks dont lie.
6 Oct 2005 ~ 11:32am jradmin

RWB wrote:

The throne will change again soon. It always does.

We have yet to see a 512 7800GTX. From all the tests and overviews, its the 512 meg winning the 3 out of 4 tests for ATI...not the card as a whole.

Nvidia is gonna be on top for awhile, atleast till the next generations of cards come out.
7 Oct 2005 ~ 3:17am NiGHTS So what...2...3 weeks?
7 Oct 2005 ~ 9:40pm drasnor I don't understand the ATI numbering scheme. When I first heard about the X800 cards I figured they were just using the Roman numeral 'X' for the 10 to be clever, but X1000 is redundant by that definition.

-drasnor
8 Oct 2005 ~ 2:02am Qeldroma

CyrixInstead wrote:

Wow how fickle we all are. If you swapped the words ATI & nVidia over and renamed the cards talked about, this could have been a thread from 18 months ago!

~Cyrix

And, if I read the articles right, it won't be long before ...