ATI Radeon 64MB DDR

Whilst upgrading my lowly 200MHz MMX Machine with its 4MB Matrox graphics card, I decided to go all out and get the best available. After talking to a few techies about graphics cards one mentioned the Radeon 64MB DDR...and I'm glad they did!! It was such a relief to be able to play the latest games, at full resolution, with maximum colour depth and refresh rate possible....and with no slow down either!! I've had the card sitting at the heart of my P4 for the last 2 months. Everything I've asked of it has provided. When I thought I had pushed it too far, it rolled over smiled and pushed on. From a gaming point of view, this is the card that will keep you ...  Read the complete review

For a few years now ATi have not been recognised as being a manufacturer creating for the fast and furious gaming performance needed for today’s latest detailed 3D games. Products such as the Rage128 were plagued with not only delayed releases but poor drivers. "High end" products, such as the Rage Furry MAXX, found themselves paired up with much better performing products from the competitors as a result of these delays. This poor track record was enough to keep the power computer user away from ATI, but good relations ensured ATI's success in the OEM market.They have tended to sit back in the corner dealing with the lower spec machines or the people ...  Read the complete review

With Nvidia, the major player in graphics technology, designing cards better than ever before. Could ATI produce something that could blow them all away? ATI certaintly didn't think twice about cramming this card with as much state of the art technology they could lay their hands on. The card comes with 64Mb of on-board DDR (double data rate) RAM, ATI's own Radeon 8500 GPU and support for AGP 1X/2X/4X. It also runs in resolutions from 640X480 up to 2048X1536 which is more than enough for anyone. It was also the only card that support DirectX 8.1 on release. But the question that needs answering is, how do all this do in the real world? The answer you ...  Read the complete review

It’s here, the graphics card with performance. 1.A graphics card with performance? Gimme the specs of it then. Chipset = ATI Radeon Processor speed = 183MHz Peak fill rate = 366Mpixels/sec Memory = 64MB DDR SDRAM Memory speed = 183MHz (DDR) RAMDAC speed = 350MHz Max 3D resolution = 2048x1536 Max colour depth with above = 32bit Max frame rate at 1600x1200, full colour = 75Hz Bus type = AGP AGP 4x mode supported = YES Texture compression = DXTC Hardware transform and lighting = yes Hardware cinematic effects = NO Operating system support = Windows ’98, Windows Millennium Edition, NT 4.0, ...  Read the complete review

The Radeon from ATI has firmly established itself as one of the top 3 cards in the ever tightning 3D Graphics card business. ATI have not been known in the past for releasing mind blowing speed cards, but for there more user friendly, does the job cards, like the All in Wonders, which offer loads of features but were never going to take the games market by storm. The Radeon certainly changed all this with the ability leave the Voodoo 5 5500 well behind in speed tests. The Geforce 2 hold a firm grip at the top I believe in terms of speed but its still close. To ATI's advantage though the Radeon does come with hardware T&L and anti-alaising, The Geforce has ...  Read the complete review