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ATI: Radeon 9700 Is Double The Power Of GeForce4
News ATI Technologies on Thursday released details of its upcoming Radeon 9700 PC graphics chip, saying it will deliver twice the performance of anything else on the market, and will lay a new foundation for cinematic 3D graphics.
[July 18, 2002, 13:54]
ATI Radeon 9700 Grabs Graphics Top Spot
News ATI has decisively grabbed the top spot in PC graphics from arch-rival Nvidia with the upcoming launch of its Radeon 9700 Pro graphics processor. ZDNet Labs' benchmarks show ATI's Radeon 9700 Pro has a big performance advantage over the GeForce4 Ti...
[August 22, 2002, 15:48]
ATI Goes Mainstream With New Graphics Technology
News ATI has unveiled three new graphics chips aimed at taking its industry-leading Radeon 9700 Pro technology to a wider base of consumers. The Radeon 9700, Radeon 9500 Pro and Radeon 9500 will be available through graphics card makers such as Hercules...
[October 25, 2002, 15:22]
ATI Delays Radeon 9600
News ATI said it will be set to launch its delayed Radeon 9600 graphics processor later this month, later than expected but still reaching the market before Nvidia's competing chip, code-named NV35. It is based on the same technology as the earlier...
[April 2, 2003, 14:30]
Nvidia, ATI Rev Graphics Engines
News ATI on Thursday will announce three new graphics chips that will extend the performance lead the company established with the Radeon 9700. As expected, ATI will announce Thursday a series of new chips, including a high-end graphics processor that...
[March 6, 2003, 7:29]
Nvidia Chips To Make Tardy Debut
News Once NV30 products do appear, they're likely to be 25 percent to 50 percent faster than the Radeon 9700 -- not enough of a boost to get people to switch, Mosesmann said. The Radeon 9700 was built to support those functions.
[October 25, 2002, 9:48]
New Graphics Chip Enters Crowded Market
News ATI is expected to switch its Radeon graphics processing unit (GPU) from a 0.15-micron process to 0.13-micron process early next year. ATI's Radeon 9700 Pro also runs at 325MHz and, like GeForce4, is based on a 0.15-micron process.
[November 26, 2002, 12:52]
Nvidia Anticipates Graphics Recovery For 2003
News Nvidia rival ATI uses TSMC's 0.15-micron process for its Radeon 9700 and other high-end graphics chips, and is expected to switch to the company's 0.13-micron process for an updated version of the Radeon 9700, to begin volume production by the end...
[December 17, 2002, 12:03]
Nvidia: GeForce FX Cooler Than Ever
News The chip uses a 0.13-micron manufacturing process from TSMC, compared to the 0.15-micron process used by ATI's next-gen Radeon 9700 chip. However, the process has taken Nvidia time to perfect, with the result that the Radeon 9700 chip launched...
[November 19, 2002, 10:24]
New Nvidia Chip Neck-and-neck With Radeon
News A preview of an add-in card based on Nvidia's upcoming high-end Nvidia GeForce FX 5800 Ultra chip found that, surprisingly, the chip did not offer a substantial performance gain over rival ATI's high-end offering, the Radeon 9700 Pro.
[January 29, 2003, 9:51]
ATI Aims To Extend Lead Over Nvidia
News ATI's Radeon 9700 is currently the most powerful graphics chip available, and analysts have said ATI is eager to exploit its advantage while it lasts. An update of the Radeon 9700, code-named RV350, is expected to begin production by the end of...
[December 13, 2002, 16:23]
Graphics Chip Makers Turn Up The Heat
News Details of the NV30 are sketchy, but the chip is Nvidia's answer to ATI's Radeon 9700 chip, which has been the clear performance leader since its introduction in July, according to experts and ZDNet UK Labs tests.
[October 7, 2002, 16:19]
Performance Optimization Techniques For ATI Graphics Hardware With DirectX 9.0
White Papers Primarily this paper is targeted at the latest ATI's offerings - RADEON 9500/9700 family, as well as previous generation parts, based on RADEON 8500/9000 family. The purpose of this paper is to introduce and explain complexities of performance...
[February 29, 2008, 0:02]
Nvidia Gains On Rivals, Prepares For NV30 Launch
News The NV30 will be Nvidia's counter-attack against ATI, whose Radeon 9700 has held the performance lead since its introduction in July. By comparison, the top-end Radeon chip has 110 million transistors, and the GeForce4 Ti 4600 has 63 million.
[November 6, 2002, 16:38]
Nvidia Shoots For Film With New Chip
News The GeForce FX will outclip rival ATI Technologies' Radeon 9700 -- the fastest graphics chip available now -- by 25 percent to 50 percent in speed. But the Radeon chip, unveiled last July, won the favour of many PC makers and gamers, while the...
[November 18, 2002, 12:03]
Nvidia NV30 Pursues Raw Speed
News The top-end Radeon chip has more than 100 million transistors -- more than most PC processors -- and is capable of churning out 2.5 billion pixels per second. ATI works with manufacturer UMC to produce its Radeon graphics chips.
[October 8, 2002, 16:40]
New Chip May Signal ATI Comeback
News The Markham, Ontario-based company on Thursday will unveil the details of the Radeon 9700, a desktop graphics chip based on a new architecture that will provide greater realism when it comes to 3D images, according to sources.
[July 17, 2002, 11:32]
Perfect Notebook Computer For Both Novices And Professionals
Member Review The very fast GPU (ATI Radeon Mobility 9700) fully compensates for the fast-but-not-fastest CPU (G4 1.5 GHz) as Mac OS X leverages the GPU's power for the GUI as well + Great operating system (rock-solid and very fast)
[January 5, 2005, 13:55]
Intel Breaks 3GHz Speed Barrier
News These machines will include the new Pentium 4, along with 512MB to 1GB of RAM, hard drives ranging from 120GB to 200GB, DVD burners, large flat-panel displays with screen sizes of 17 inches or greater, and ATI Technologies' new Radeon 9700 Pro...
[November 13, 2002, 7:39]
PC Makers Rev Up 3GHz Releases
News These machines will include the new Pentium 4, along with 512MB to 1GB of RAM, hard drives ranging from 120GB to 200GB, DVD burners, large flat-panel displays with screen sizes of 17 inches or greater, and ATI Technologies' new Radeon 9700 Pro...
[November 12, 2002, 15:46]
