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I play Unreal 99/03/04, Call of duty 1/2, quake 1/2/3/4, doom 3, Dune 2000, Hearts of iron, Guild wars, World of warcraft, Warcraft 1/2/3, Neverball, Worms, Red Alert 1/2 and many more games. And its not just once in a quarter or so. Its more like 8 hours a day =) Well aslong as im still on vacation anyways. (im on my last week of the three months holliday) As wine progresses and more games is actually supported i think ill soon see most games overall to work in linux. This news might feel like a backlash but in fact the open source drivers are actually quite fast for those cards wich is dropped, so people getting them or have one since earlier shouldnt be worried. Btw in some FPS style games i have actually seen better performance than in windows. (the native ones atleast)
Video cards features
Testbed, test tools, 2D quality
Test results: Quake3 ARENA (speed & quality)
Test results: Serious Sam: The Second Encounter (speed & quality)
Test results: Return to Castle Wolfenstein (speed & quality)
Test results: Code Creatures DEMO (speed & quality)
Test results: Unreal Tournament 2003 (speed & quality)
Test results: Unreal II: The Awakening (speed & quality)
Test results: RightMark 3D (speed & quality)
Test results: TRAOD: Benchmarking in paris5_4
Test results: TRAOD: Benchmarking in paris1c
Test results: TRAOD: Benchmarking in paris2g
Test results: HALO: Combat Evolved (speed & quality)
Test results: AquaMark3 (speed & quality)
Conclusion
ASUSTeK Computer's plans about ATI's processors were rumored long ago. One of the facts that added fuel to the fire was that MSI, old NVIDIA's partner, concluded a contract for using ATI's GPUs in its cards. That was written about even in the central mass media like Yahoo. If MSI stepped on this way, why wouldn't ASUSTeK do the same? Although they were just rumors until the official announcement we got one interesting video card: That was RADEON 9000 based card from ASUSTeK. As it was manufactured before the agreement ws concluded, that card sold as a noname card. It's not the first agreement between this companies. You might remember the V264 series produced by the Taiwanese company in 1997 with ATI RAGE, RAGE II+, RAGE II+DVD, and RAGE PRO GPUs onboard. We've got a sample in our museum. In fact, only with the release of the RAGE 128 the Canadian company broke off collaboration with the third manufacturers and focused on its own card production. After such events the Taiwanese electronic King (this is how the guys at ASUSTeK jokingly interpret "TeK" in the company's name) produced everything that was popular (there were even 3dfx Banshee based cards), and then it focused on NVIDIA's cards and remained faithful to it until October 1st this year. 3dfx Interactive's bankrupt helped ATI realize its mistake: 3dfx refused to collaborate with card makers and decided to make its cards itself using the facilities of STB Systems; soon it realized its mistake but it was late. So, ATI started looking for new partners. The brook was very tiny at the beginning but thanks to the clear-sighted top management and improving drivers the gentle murmur turned into a roaring river. Meanwhile, NVIDIA made a mistake with its NV30, and it took it a lot of time to recover. Then ATI released its R300 that conquered users' hearts (ATI even fell onto its knees before TSMC begging to increase the lots but the Taiwanese semiconductor giant had very tight schedule). Theoretical materials and reviews of video cards which concern functional properties of the GPU ATI RADEON 9500/9700/9800 Analysis of RADEON 9700 architecture and Microsoft DirectX 9.0
ATI RADEON 9700 Pro 128MB Review
Gigabyte MAYA II R9700Pro 128MB - performance estimated on the new Pentium 4 2.53 GHz based platform, comparison with the NVIDIA's 40.41 driver
Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro 128MB - new CATALYST 2.3 driver estimated in 3DMark2001 SE, and Unreal Tournament 2003 DEMO final release
PowerColor Evil Commando2 RADEON 9700 Pro 128MB - performance of the new CATALYST 2.3 driver estimated in game tests, 3D quality issues
Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro on ATI RADEON 9700 Pro: extreme overclocking
ATI RADEON 9500, 9700 and Gigabyte MAYA II RADEON 9500
Sapphire Atlantis RADEON 9500 128MB and videocards tests in DOOM III v.0.02
ATI RADEON 9500 PRO 128MB
Gigabyte MAYA II RADEON 9500 PRO and Hercules 3D Prophet 9500 PRO - detailed analysis of anisotropic filtering of RADEON 9700
Sapphire Technology RADEON 7500, 8500, 9000/Pro, 9700 Pro, anisotropic filtering of RADEON 9700
HIS Excalibur RADEON 9700 PRO - Tests in DirectX 9.0 RC0
ATI RADEON 9500 64MB, 9500 128MB, 9500 PRO, 9700 and 9700 PRO in DirectX 9.0: Part 1 - Game tests in 3DMark2001, and Soft9700!
ATI RADEON 9500 64MB, 9500 128MB, 9500 PRO, 9700 and 9700 PRO in DirectX 9.0: Part 2 - Tests in DirectX 9.0 - synthetic tests from RightMark 3D
Sapphire Atlantis RADEON 9700 and RADEON 9700 PRO Ultimate Edition
YUAN SmartVGA RADEON 9000 64MB and RADEON 9700 PRO
Connect3D video cards on the ATI's chips
ATI RADEON 9800 PRO 128MB
ATI RADEON 9600 PRO 128MB: Part 1 - game tests and performance
Hercules 3D Prophet 9800 PRO 128MB and Hercules 3D Prophet 7500 128MB, and scandal around the 3DMark03
Hercules 3D Prophet 9800 PRO 128MB and Hercules 3D Prophet 7500 128MB (single page)
Sapphire Technologies ATI RADEON 9200/9600/9600PRO/9800PRO video cards
Connect3D, Gigabyte and CP.Technology ATI RADEON 9800 PRO video cards
Sapphire Atlantis RADEON 9600 256MB, Sapphire Atlantis RADEON 9600 PRO Ultimate Edition 128MB, Gigabyte RADEON 9600 PRO 128MB, Hercules 3D Prophet 9600 PRO 128MB
Sapphire Atlantis RADEON 9200 PCI 64MB 64bit, Sapphire Atlantis RADEON 9200SE 128MB, Sapphire Atlantis RADEON 9800SE 128MB 128bit, Sapphire Atlantis RADEON 9800 128MB, Sapphire Atlantis RADEON 9800 PRO Lite 128MB, PowerColor RADEON 9800SE 128MB 256bit
ATI RADEON 9800 XT 256MB
TYAN TACHYON G9800Pro-M 128MB on ATI RADEON 9800 PRO
It's obvious that ATI Technologies managed to grasp the technological leadership, though its sales volumes are not the greatest, - it just offers the leading performance of top products. The new race has started. The companies even resort to overclocking and promote overclocked solutions as completely new (the marketers at both companies must have huge wages). Probably, the fact that none of them (ATI or NVIDIA) can be unconditionally considered a leader made ASUSTeK reconsider its faithfulness. The time will show how the marketers at ASUSTeK will divide products of the same class into niches. Right after the release of the RADEON 9800 XT, 9600 XT the Canadian company announced ASUSTeK Partner No1. Does such partnership mean unequal conditions for the its other partners? - We don't know. Taking into account ASUS' facilities and potential, the deliveries to other companies could fell down as it's impossible to increase the volumes with TSMC that fast. So, ASUS got the following products: RADEON 9800 XT;
RADEON 9600 XT;
RADEON 9600 SE;
RADEON 9200 SE.
I'm not aware if ASUSTeK will use any other processors as well. Such models were chosen probably to prevent the inner competition with NVIDIA based cards. Maybe there are some other reasons. Today we will test the whole line. Note that it's the first time we deal with a card based on the RADEON 9600 XT. Cards The cards have AGP x8/x4 interface ((9200SE has AGP x8/x4/x2), 128 MB DDR SDRAM memory (ASUS RADEON 9800 XT has 256MB) in 8 chips on both PCB sides (ASUS RADEON 9200SE 128MB has only 4 chips).ASUS RADEON 9200SE 128MBSamsung 5ns memory chips (corresponds to 200 (400) MHz), memory clockedat 166 (333) MHz, GPU at 200 MHz. 64bit memory interface.ASUS RADEON 9600SE 128MBSamsung 5ns memory chips (corresponds to 200 (400) MHz), memory clockedat 200 (400) MHz, GPU at 325 MHz. SE implies the 64-bit memory interface.ASUS RADEON 9600 XT 128MBSamsung (BGA) 2.8ns memory chips (corresponds to 350 (700) MHz), memoryclocked at 300 (600) MHz, GPU at 500 MHz. 128bit memory interface.ASUS RADEON 9800 XT 256MBHynix 2.5ns memory chips (corresponds to 400 (800) MHz), memory clockedat 365 (730) MHz, GPU at 412 MHz. Comparison with the reference design, front view ASUS RADEON 9200SE 128MBReference card ATI RADEON 9200 SE ASUS RADEON 9600SE 128MB Reference card ATI RADEON 9600 ASUS RADEON 9600 XT 128MBReference card ATI RADEON 9600 PRO ASUS RADEON 9800 XT 128MBReference card ATI RADEON 9800 XT Comparison with the reference design, back view ASUS RADEON 9200SE 128MBReference card ATI RADEON 9200 SE ASUS RADEON 9600SE 128MB Reference card ATI RADEON 9600 ASUS RADEON 9600 XT 128MBReference card ATI RADEON 9600 PRO ASUS RADEON 9800 XT 128MBReference card ATI RADEON 9800 XT All the cards are based on the reference design which was a bit altered in each case. Unfortunately, we didn't receive yet a reference card on the 9600 XT, that is why I compared it with the RADEON 9600 PRO. The ASUS card differs in the VIVO support. The most powerful card - 9800 XT - follows the reference design, though the RAGE Theater is old, while the reference card is designed for the RAGE Theater 200 (new). The card also supports hardware monitoring. The whole line is painted bright orange. I never saw such cards before. Two cards (9600 XT and 9800 XT) support VIVO thanks to the Rage Theater. I must say that you can find main video operation functions written right on the packages; here's how the box of the 9800 XT looks like: Alexey Samsonov will soon tell you about RAGE Theater (both versions) and its video capturing functions. That is why I'll omit it here. Here is how the RADEON 9800 XT based card looks when inserted into the mainboard: The cooler is pretty low and doesn't prevent installation of cards into the first PCI slot. As to the coolers, the RADEON 9200SE has an ordinary pin heatsink. ASUS RADEON 9600SE 128MB A simple cooler with a fan. ASUS RADEON 9600 XT 128MB This cooler is more powerful. The fan is installed on a big sink that covers both the core and the memory chips. But it's just decoration as the memory chips are not cooled underneath. But it's a nice decration as the sink is logo-shaped. ASUS RADEON 9800 XT 256MB In contrast to the reference cooler that has one huge fan, ASUS uses two fans (such coolers were installed on GeForce FX 5900 based cards), that is why the sink made of copper alloy is very massive. 2ff7e9595c
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