It is no doubt that ATi has created a series of successful GPUs first with their R300 and now the R350 and stolen the performance crown from graphics leader NVIDIA for quite a while. The R350 VPU is packed with several key improvements such as higher core/memory clock speeds, inclusion of F-buffer technology, better memory controller optimizations and enhanced Z-cache for real-time dynamic shadow rendering. The recent launch of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra codenamed NV35 proved too strong for R350 to handle and will be making its way to the retail market by end of this month. Definitely, ATi will not just sit back and let NVIDIA grab back the performance crown. Instead ATi will be releasing the R360 in Q3 this year with higher clock frequencies. Therefore we will be looking yet again the performance tussle between ATi and NVIDIA and it will be NV35 vs R360.
Triplex has been known for their GeForce 4 Titanium series especially their Ti4600 with the briefcase like packaging and also their Ti4200 with 2.2ns memory chips. This time round, Triplex has made a switch over to ATi by releasing a series of Radeon cards and interestingly, they are still making NVIDIA cards as well. The latest card from Triplex within their new EYE BOMB series is the Radeon 9800 Pro that comes in a nice clear acrylic box with some decent accessories for video enthusiasts. Triplex Radeon 9800 Pro looks exactly like the reference card and is clocked at 380/340Mhz and using the 2.8ns memory chips. In this article, we will check out the baseline Direct3D and OpenGL gaming performance with no AA/AF and 4xAA/8xAF for different group of gamers. Most importantly, we will check out how well this card will overclock too.
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Jun 1, 2003, 07:23 PM
