ATI Releases Five New Radeons 268
An anonymous reader writes "Eager to retake the performance crown from NVIDIA, ATI has announced five new releases for their Radeon product line. The latest card features 512MB GDDR4 memory running at 1000Mhz, it's currently the fastest single CPU VGA card out there. From the review: 'ATI has proven they are a leader and not a follower with the X1950 XTX. ATI has released the world's first consumer 3D graphics card with GDDR4 memory clocked at the highest ever stock speed that chews through games when it comes to high definition gaming. Memory bandwidth looks to once again be the defining factor in 3D performance. With a re-designed heatsink/fan unit, faster memory, and lowered price, the ATI Radeon X1950 XTX and CrossFire Edition are both serious 3D gaming video cards for the [H]ardcore that offer some value over NVIDIA's more expensive 7950 GX2. ATI's CrossFire dual GPU gaming platform looks to have just grown up.'"
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Re:Screw ATI (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Drivers? (Score:4, Interesting)
fglrx(0) PreInitDAL failed
fglrx(0) R200PreInit failed
The total failure of ATI quality control to regression test even on recent cards like in my laptop is astounding. I'll never make the mistake of buying ATI products again.
It works both ways. (Score:3, Interesting)
ATI started using the "GT" monkier (x800 GT, x1900 GT), and even extended the monkier to "GTO" after the incredible success of Nvidia's 6600 and 6800 GT.
They've been doing this sort of thing for years.
And while ATI looks like they ripped off the "950" name with the x1950 XTX, this one again cuts both ways:
ATI was the first to use "50" increments in their product naming. Witness the Radeon 9250 and 9550, which were released a few years back and still sell today. Later, they released the x850 series, and now they've released the x1650 and the x1950.
Since the release of the GeForce 4 series, all Nvidia product numbers have been divisible by 100. The GeForce 7950 GX2 is the first and only exception to this rule, and is obviously inspired by ATI's recent naming schemes.
Nice CPU (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Same on my Acer AL2032W (Score:3, Interesting)
p.s., I don't suppose you use a KVM switch, do you? My friend uses one with a VGA to DVI coupler and he noticed that ghosting around text as well (he has a new widescreen LCD and an ATI X850XL Deluxe or something). He removed the KVM and plugged the DVI right into the video card and everything suddenly looked great!