Review: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB

Dom · Jun 8, 2003, 12:09 AM

We've been waiting for this time since consumer graphics finally took off with the Voodoo. Since then, as PC's finally had the pixel pushing horsepower to render 3D at speed, games have been gaining in visual quality and complexity up to a point where larger framebuffers haven't just been a gimmick. They've been a necessity. And while a larger than 128MB framebuffer has been common on high end 'professional' cards for a long time, in the consumer market it has never been the case.

Until now that is. Recently we've seen the launch of two expensive consumer graphics behemoths, one each from ATI and NVIDIA, sporting the magical quarter GB of onboard card memory and it's the ATI entrant I'll be looking at today.

We've talked about 9800 Pro and R350 in previous articles so I wont cover old ground, other than to say that it's a 'traditional' 8 pipeline, 1 TMU and shader unit per pipeline architecture.

Full review at Hexus.net

kinetic · Jun 8, 2003, 12:17 AM

That settles it, it's a plain old 9700 pro for me!

Zardon · Jun 8, 2003, 12:46 AM

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Originally posted by kinetic
That settles it, it's a plain old 9700 pro for me!

nothing plain about it , awesome card !

tragic · Jun 8, 2003, 01:18 AM

Good resume, i am not in any rush to update as yet. Long live the 9700 pro

Jun 8, 2003, 12:09 AM	#1
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	Review: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB We've been waiting for this time since consumer graphics finally took off with the Voodoo. Since then, as PC's finally had the pixel pushing horsepower to render 3D at speed, games have been gaining in visual quality and complexity up to a point where larger framebuffers haven't just been a gimmick. They've been a necessity. And while a larger than 128MB framebuffer has been common on high end 'professional' cards for a long time, in the consumer market it has never been the case. Until now that is. Recently we've seen the launch of two expensive consumer graphics behemoths, one each from ATI and NVIDIA, sporting the magical quarter GB of onboard card memory and it's the ATI entrant I'll be looking at today. We've talked about 9800 Pro and R350 in previous articles so I wont cover old ground, other than to say that it's a 'traditional' 8 pipeline, 1 TMU and shader unit per pipeline architecture. Full review at Hexus.net

Jun 8, 2003, 12:17 AM	#2
kinetic DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Manchester England Posts: 2,559 Rep Power: 0	That settles it, it's a plain old 9700 pro for me!

Jun 8, 2003, 01:18 AM	#4
tragic Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Northern Hemi Posts: 0 Rep Power: 0	Good resume, i am not in any rush to update as yet. Long live the 9700 pro