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ATI Radeon 9000: It's fun... - Photoshop a tad slow? UT2004unrealistically slow? And, your bank balance has seen better days? Perhaps you should consider the ATI Radeon 9000 Pro ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Special Edition Video Card Review - What seems to be the last high-end video card of ATI that will have an AGP interface, the Radeon Pro 9800 Special Edition 256MB is a true racing monster for your precious Power Mac G5. It will only work inside a G5, and will make best use of the G5’s 8x AGP slot. It has 256 MB VRAM and the capability to connect two displays: one DVI- and one ADC-display. This is the best and fastest video card ATI has built up to now for any Mac The ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Special 256MB Mac Edition versus Other Radeon Graphics Cards - Does the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Special Edition with 256MB of DDR video memory go faster than the Radeon 9800 Pro OEM with 128MB of VRAM? How about the Radeon 9800 Pro Retail Mac Edition with 128MB of VRAM? ATI Ships 256 MB Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special Edition Video Card - ATI has announced it is shipping its newest video card for the Mac market, one that dramatically steps up the company's Mac offerings. The Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special Edition is the first 256 MB video card for the Mac platform, and comes with both DVI and ADC connection ATI Introduces new Graphics Cards - Both the RADEON X600 and RADEON X800 are built using TSMC's low k, 130-nanometer silicon process to deliver high-speed, high-performance visual processors for home or office use. Featuring advanced image quality and performance enhancing technologies originally found only in high-end VPUs, the RADEON X600 is perfect for the high-volume mainstream and performance segments of the market Radeon 9800 in a Cube ! - It is possible to fit a radeon 9800 pro mac in a Cube.This hack is made possible by using the Powercube enclosure from Powerlogix ATI unwraps latest GPU technology - Formerly codenamed 'M24', the mobile chip is a cut-down version of the X800 Pro graphics processor ATI launched last month. The X600's graphics core provides two vertex processing pipelines and four pixel pipelines - the X800 has six and 12, respectively. It connects to memory across a 128-bit bus, half the size of the X800's. The X600 uses vanilla DDR, the X800 uses GDDR 3 OpEd: RADEON 9800 Pro for G5s only - With NVIDIA's apparent retreat from the retail Mac graphics card market, ATI upgrades reign supreme. Currently, users can also find the RADEON 7000 (32MB), 9000 (64, 128 MB) and 9800 Pro (128MB) on-sale at prices ranging from $117 to $350. Further, ATI has indicated that it will offer a PCI-based RADEON 9200 in the near term, as well. ATI may announce Axiom next week - Quite how Axiom differs from MXM isn't known - indeed, very little is known about the ATI spec. MXM was developed to let notebook manufacturers to slot graphics chips into their machines rather than physically add them to the motherboard. That means they can not only update their notebooks' graphics sub-systems more easily, but tout upgradeability to end users Nvidia’s Mobile PCI Express Module (MXM) specification - Nvidia has made a bold stance on the future of graphics cards for mobile devices. Their new MXM specification will allow mobile PC owners to upgrade their graphics card with relative ease. The standard will also apply to other classes of computers potentially making it easier for all to upgrade their graphics abilities. Three classes have thus far been defined, MXM I geared toward laptops, MXM II to mainstream machines and MXM III for desktop replacements GPU Wars Heat Up... Again - Within weeks of one another, the two major players left in the PC graphics processor unit (GPU) business, ATI and nVidia, have released new chip architectures—perhaps their fastest and most powerful GPUs yet. And the stakes couldn't be higher for both companies, as ATI hopes to maintain its top-dog status and nVidia seeks to reclaim market dominance ATI Sets Standards for Graphics on New Apple Systems - The 15- and 17-inch PowerBook G4 notebooks will feature the new MOBILITY RADEON 9700, the world’s fastest mobile graphics processing unit. ATI’s MOBILITY RADEON 9700 uses Low-k process technology to reduce the strain on battery life and at the same time provide accelerated performance. Increase frame rates in UT2004 on multi-CPU Macs - Most Mac gamers know that many games don't support symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) properly. The most notable exception is probably Quake 3, which properly displays the tremendous performance advantage of multiple processors once you edit the .ini file to turn SMP on in the game. Most games, however, experience little or no performance advantage on dual processors due to the way they are programmed (the excuse I've read is "because these games aren't programmed for multiple processors on the PC")
Hoping to make a big splash - Nvidia Aims To Edge Out Rival With New Generation Of Graphics Chips - The Santa Clara company Tuesday unveiled its new line of graphics chips with double the capabilities of its previous generation. That's enough to provide movie-like images of sunlight penetrating water to illuminate the floating strands of a mermaid's hair, as one Nvidia demonstration portrays. Use an OEM Radeon 9800 with the ATI Displays Panel - When ATI first released the Radeon 9800 Pro in two different models, Retail and OEM, some were confused on what to get. The OEM was available as a Built-To-Order option on G5's only, but included an ADC port for your Apple Monitor and an 8X AGP bus. The Retail version was 50MHz faster and included TVOut instead of ADC, and the ability to rotate your monitor. It did this all on a 4X AGP bus "VGA Silencer" video card cooler works great although with some noted caveats - arctic-cooling card, cools and quiets ATi Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition Retail card but takes a PCI and RAM slot, in a G4 Digital Audio tower, to do it. New ATI Radeon utilities allow OpenGL override - Graphics card and chip maker ATI Technologies Inc. recently released a new version of its ATI Radeon Display Utilities software, aimed specifically at Power Mac users who have upgraded their stock video systems with one of ATI's retail Radeon graphics card products
ATI preps Radeon 9550, 9550 SE - The new part sits under the 9600 but above ATI's low-end Radeon 9600 SE, which offers the same core clock speed as the 9600 and also supports 128MB of 400MHz DDR, but provides a memory bus only half the width of the 9600. According to HardSpell, ATI will also offer a 64-bit memory bus version of the 9550, the 9550 SE
Flashing a PC Radeon 7000 PCI graphics card to Mac - There is a fair deal of ambiguous information concerning the software conversion of PC ATI Radeon 7000 PCI graphics cards by flashing firmware upgrades onto the card for it to work on a Mac. Based on this, I decided to write my own guide on how to perform this conversion, due to the high cost and general unavailability of Mac ATI graphics cards in Australia Village Tronic VTBook - Village Tronic's VTBook is intended to help you get around these problems and drive modern displays at high speeds. The VTBook is a PC Card that provides an impressive 32Mb of video RAM and a digital monitor socket driven by a Trident XP2 graphics chip. It fits into the standard PC Card slot in the side of your PowerBook and, with the driver software installed, provides you with a new monitor socket. ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - ATI's Radeon 9800 Pro is one of the fastest graphics cards available for either the Mac or PC, and since the latest Nvidia GeForce cards don't run on the Mac, ATI pretty much rules the roost in the Mac market at the moment ATi's Mobility Radeon 9700 Takes on the Desktop - Fewer than six weeks into the new year, ATi is waking the mobile gaming community up from its state of winter hibernation with a new mobile DirectX 9 chip, the MR 9700. ATi's goal: nothing less than to close the performance gap between notebook and desktop graphics performance Low-Cost Graphic Card Solutions For Macs - On the graphics card front, much has improved from the days of the thousand dollar cards marketed by RasterOps, Radiance and Newer Technologies. These days, users can purchase Macs with the latest graphic cards from chipset vendors ATI and NVIDIA. However, while new Macs feature some of the best "eye-candy" available, the after-market video card situation is far from heaven. ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Special Edition - During Macworld Expo San Francisco 2004, ATI first unveiled the Mac 256 MB of VRAM version of their highly popular graphics card, the Radeon 9800 Pro. Details had been scarce, except for the fact that it contained 256 MB of VRAM (a first on the Mac side), and that it would be G5 only Macworld: ATI shows Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special Edition - At this week's Macworld Conference & Expo , graphics card and chip maker ATI Technologies Inc. is showing off a forthcoming card that may be of interest to gamers looking to get the most out of the potential of their Power Mac G5 systems -- the Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Special Edition. VeraxG03 Fan on a Radeon 9800 - Radeon 9800 is a powerful but too noisy graphic card. The solution to silence it: the VERAX G03 fan system
Review: Radeon 9800 Pro - As the years go by and modern computing becomes more complex, consumers demand not only a powerful CPU in their Macintosh, but also capable video hardware. ATI Technologies has sought for years to reign supreme as providers of the best, fastest and most powerful video cards. Now, with the arrival of the Radeon 9800 Pro, it looks like ATI has outdone their already stellar record with a product that can almost be described as too powerful
Review: VillageTronic VTBook 32MB Video PC Card - If you are looking to boost the graphics performance of a PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet, Pismo or Lombard) or just want to connect your TiBook to an Apple LCD monitor with a DVI connector then you need to check out the US$245 VTBook 32MB PC card from VillageTronic
10.3: Exposé and Quartz Extreme on ATI Radeon cards - I went ahead and threw caution to the wind and reinstalled PCI Extreme , which successfully enable QE on PCI cards in Jaguar, and was pleasantly surprised to find that it appears to function perfectly under Panther. Exposé performance is vastly improved, as are many other functions
Review: Radeon 9800 Pro - If your Mac can no longer take the strain of today's intense and demanding 3D games, then maybe you should think about upgrading to the king of 3D cards. The Radeon 9800 Pro. Get ready to be blown away!
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - As exciting as the Power Mac G5 announcement was at June's Worldwide Developer's Conference , Mac gamers had another reason to rejoice. Steve Jobs announced to a crowd of Mac developers, and an even larger crowd gathered in the Apple Retail Stores, that ATI 's Radeon 9600 Pro would be shipping in the dual 2 GHz G5. The online communities began to buzz when the Radeon 9800 Pro quietly appeared as a Build-to-Order option at the Apple Online Store. Later that day, an ATI representative confirmed a retail Radeon 9800 Pro was planned for release, sending Mac gamers into a frenzy
ATI Radeon 9800 update has unique GL tuning - Several readers offer notes about the new Mac OS X-only ATI Radeon 9800 1.1 driver update (listed yesterday ), which includes new exclusive functionality via the new ATI Displays preference pane, including the ability to set GL options on a per-application basis, share GL profiles among different applications, and apply changes to GL settings immediately (without a restart)
Power Mac G5 vs Windows PCs 3D Gaming - The Dual G5 does well against the Windows PCs running Quake3, thanks to the code added to support multi-processors, Vector Engine, etc. We were skeptical about Apple's Quake numbers posted , but we actually measured a faster frame rate in the 1024x768 "high" test.
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro: Quake3 and UT2003 at 1600x1200 - If you recall my tests results posted on the 17th of July , the Radeon 9800 Pro was just a little faster than the GeForce4 Ti. At ATI's suggestion, I reran Quake3 and Unreal Tournament 2003 at 1600x1200
Ever wondered what OpenGL really means? - Apple has posted a Knownledge Base Document that gives some background and insight into the meaning of OpenGL . Here's the mothership's spin
GeForce FX 5900 Ultra vs. Radeon 9800 Pro - Well, I'd say the cards look very evenly matched. Even though our particular R9800 Pro only has 128MB of memory, we are confident that the given tests will show very little (if any) benefits from the added 128MB of additional memory on the FX 5900 Ultra. Still, we will try to take this into consideration when possible. Benchmarks anyone?
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