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RADEON™ 9700 PRO first graphics technology to support AGP 8X

Wednesday, September 11, 2002




MARKHAM, Ontario - A notable industry milestone was met today with the announcement of the final AGP 3.0 specification by Intel Corporation. The corresponding technology, AGP 8X, doubles the peak bandwidth capability of the AGP bus to 2.1GB/s, while retaining compatibility with the previous-generation AGP 4X technology. Not only was ATI's RADEON™ 9700 PRO the first graphics product to support AGP 8X technology, it also has been an active contributor to the development of the specification since its inception.

Working closely with Intel as a key AGP 8x validation partner, ATI was the first company to announce AGP 3.0 compliant products with the launch and availability of RADEON™ 9700 PRO. ATI's RADEON 9700 PRO empowers artists and animators to bring incredible 3D animation and imagery, real-life visuals, photo-realism, and organic modeling with its unique cinematic-quality graphics. ATI's RADEON 9700 PRO revolutionized the graphics world with its full floating point architecture, eight parallel rendering pipelines, four vertex engines, Microsoft® DirectX® 9 and AGP 8X support.

"We are continually striving to up the ante and blur the divide between the extent of human imagination and its translation into a visual reality," said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President, Marketing and General Manager, Desktop, ATI Technologies Inc. "Our efforts and Intel's platform advancements have together made more resource-intensive and intuitive workflow environments feasible for our customers."


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