Theinquirer.net mole seems to have dug up some new info about ATI's new Radeon 9700:
Fastest card for this summer could boast up to 15,000 3DMarks! ATI, as well as its partners, are very optimistic about this card and now it seems we can say their optimism in not unfounded. With eight pipelines, the card will deliver very nice performance figures and we learned that it should be clocked at 315MHz, which is obviously the fastest speed that ATI can guarantee to its partners. We are sure that the company will also introduce cards clocked at lower speeds, under a slightly different name, though we expect the LE label to be dropped. For more info warp 2 ... Theinquirer.net
Fastest card for this summer could boast up to 15,000 3DMarks! ATI, as well as its partners, are very optimistic about this card and now it seems we can say their optimism in not unfounded. With eight pipelines, the card will deliver very nice performance figures and we learned that it should be clocked at 315MHz, which is obviously the fastest speed that ATI can guarantee to its partners. We are sure that the company will also introduce cards clocked at lower speeds, under a slightly different name, though we expect the LE label to be dropped. For more info warp 2 ... Theinquirer.net