In this article we have posted the most and interesting articles, reviews, previews about ATI's newest child, the ATI Radeon 9800.
Click on Read More and get all articles on one view. If you know more or newer one, leave a comment. RADEON? 9800 Real-Time Demos
First up is that ATI have updated their frontpage with flash interactive demos , wallpapers, screensavers and the launch event video for the 9800 PRO.
Low-speed / High-speed ATI Radeon 9800 PRO Review
"The Hierarchical Z-Buffer scheme ATI employs has been known to increase the rendering speed and efficiency significantly, yet it was disabled when certain stencil operations were carried out in an application, thus lowering the performance. R350's Hierarchical Z-Buffer has been altered to take this into account and should provide a faster stencils rendering path - important for titles such as DoomIII.
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO Review @ Beyond3D ATi Radeon 9800 Pro [R350] Review at Hexus
Snip: "It's both faster and has more features than the 9700 Pro, and generally matches the GeForce FX on the feature front. That alone will ensure that it sells by the proverbial bucket load. Our benchmarks have shown it to be the performance leader in the majority of benchmarks that we conducted. Excelling the key area of high resolutions and high settings of image quality (4x AA, 8x AF), it betters the 9700 Pro in almost every way. Evolutionary rather than revolutionary. After all, why change a winning formula ?."
HEXUS.net Radeon 9800, 9600 & 9200 Previews
Fast forward to the present, and the Radeon 9700 has been a raging success in a number of areas. Its high-end position has been left unchallenged ever since its announcement, allowing it to keep its prestigious position as the fastest card out on the market. It has sold a significant quantity, which has infused large revenue into ATI. Finally it has left a strong and lasting impression on the video graphics community. Around the net, you can view discussions about it being the best 3D-graphics chipset ever, even being compared to the almighty Voodoo. The R300 has raised ATI?s brand name a notch, which in my belief is the most important contribution.
Rage3D - Radeon 9800, 9600 & 9200 Preview@ Rage 3d
Bjorn3D - The Radeon 9800, 9600 and 9200 Preview@Bjorn3D
Toms Hardware - Strike Force: The new ATI Radeon 9800, 9600 and 9200 Series @ TomsHardware ATI RADEON 9800 Pro Review @ Driversheaven
Unlike the FX, the 9800 like its predecessor uses a 256-bit DDR memory interface, this removes hardware performance bottlenecks and provides end users with faster graphics performance. We all saw how hard Nvidia had to push the FX core to equal the 9700 pro in some benchmarks, this was mainly due to the inferior 128 bit memory interface used. The 256-bit DDR memory interface allows you to run the most intensive games and applications in high-resolutions true-colour mode using FSAA (SMOOTHVISION 2.1) and still have enough local memory for abundant texture storage. The 9800 pro also supports the new universal AGP 3.0 8x specification, which allows larger volumes of texture and vertex data to be transferred faster from system memory to the chip. The 9800 pro VPU offers dual integrated 10-bit per channel 400MHZ DACS. No PCI version is available, so don't even ask. Memory on the card isn't upgradeable. 256 Meg configurations will be introduced beginning in the second quarter.
ATI RADEON 9800 Pro Review ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Review
Unfortunately ATi still hasn't disclosed all the clock frequencies to us yet. However we do have the 9800 Pro which is clocked at 378/675 MHz. When it comes to the non-Pro and the 256 MB version they are going to be clocked at 325/620 and 400/920 respectively, according to FIC. During the presentation someone from ATi staff mumbled something about 900 MHz DDRII so this does seem kind of likely. If this means that it will actually have 920 Mhz memory remains to be seen. Prices seem to be pretty much what we expected. 499 USD seems a bit too much for the 256 MB version though, but if it truly has 920 Mhz memory it might well be worth it.
Before we continue we'd like to note that the R350 is an improved R300, the architectural differences aren't all that great. That's not saying that the few changes are unimportant but the chip itself is very similar to the R300:
Review @ NordichHardware
Click on Read More and get all articles on one view. If you know more or newer one, leave a comment. RADEON? 9800 Real-Time Demos
First up is that ATI have updated their frontpage with flash interactive demos , wallpapers, screensavers and the launch event video for the 9800 PRO.
Low-speed / High-speed ATI Radeon 9800 PRO Review
"The Hierarchical Z-Buffer scheme ATI employs has been known to increase the rendering speed and efficiency significantly, yet it was disabled when certain stencil operations were carried out in an application, thus lowering the performance. R350's Hierarchical Z-Buffer has been altered to take this into account and should provide a faster stencils rendering path - important for titles such as DoomIII.
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO Review @ Beyond3D ATi Radeon 9800 Pro [R350] Review at Hexus
Snip: "It's both faster and has more features than the 9700 Pro, and generally matches the GeForce FX on the feature front. That alone will ensure that it sells by the proverbial bucket load. Our benchmarks have shown it to be the performance leader in the majority of benchmarks that we conducted. Excelling the key area of high resolutions and high settings of image quality (4x AA, 8x AF), it betters the 9700 Pro in almost every way. Evolutionary rather than revolutionary. After all, why change a winning formula ?."
HEXUS.net Radeon 9800, 9600 & 9200 Previews
Fast forward to the present, and the Radeon 9700 has been a raging success in a number of areas. Its high-end position has been left unchallenged ever since its announcement, allowing it to keep its prestigious position as the fastest card out on the market. It has sold a significant quantity, which has infused large revenue into ATI. Finally it has left a strong and lasting impression on the video graphics community. Around the net, you can view discussions about it being the best 3D-graphics chipset ever, even being compared to the almighty Voodoo. The R300 has raised ATI?s brand name a notch, which in my belief is the most important contribution.
Rage3D - Radeon 9800, 9600 & 9200 Preview@ Rage 3d
Bjorn3D - The Radeon 9800, 9600 and 9200 Preview@Bjorn3D
Toms Hardware - Strike Force: The new ATI Radeon 9800, 9600 and 9200 Series @ TomsHardware ATI RADEON 9800 Pro Review @ Driversheaven
Unlike the FX, the 9800 like its predecessor uses a 256-bit DDR memory interface, this removes hardware performance bottlenecks and provides end users with faster graphics performance. We all saw how hard Nvidia had to push the FX core to equal the 9700 pro in some benchmarks, this was mainly due to the inferior 128 bit memory interface used. The 256-bit DDR memory interface allows you to run the most intensive games and applications in high-resolutions true-colour mode using FSAA (SMOOTHVISION 2.1) and still have enough local memory for abundant texture storage. The 9800 pro also supports the new universal AGP 3.0 8x specification, which allows larger volumes of texture and vertex data to be transferred faster from system memory to the chip. The 9800 pro VPU offers dual integrated 10-bit per channel 400MHZ DACS. No PCI version is available, so don't even ask. Memory on the card isn't upgradeable. 256 Meg configurations will be introduced beginning in the second quarter.
ATI RADEON 9800 Pro Review ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Review
Unfortunately ATi still hasn't disclosed all the clock frequencies to us yet. However we do have the 9800 Pro which is clocked at 378/675 MHz. When it comes to the non-Pro and the 256 MB version they are going to be clocked at 325/620 and 400/920 respectively, according to FIC. During the presentation someone from ATi staff mumbled something about 900 MHz DDRII so this does seem kind of likely. If this means that it will actually have 920 Mhz memory remains to be seen. Prices seem to be pretty much what we expected. 499 USD seems a bit too much for the 256 MB version though, but if it truly has 920 Mhz memory it might well be worth it.
Before we continue we'd like to note that the R350 is an improved R300, the architectural differences aren't all that great. That's not saying that the few changes are unimportant but the chip itself is very similar to the R300:
Review @ NordichHardware
