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ATI RADEON 9500, RADEON 9500 PRO, RADEON 9700 vs. NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200 and GeForce4 Ti4600

[ 12/25/02 | by FastSite]

At present there are two players in the today's gaming graphics cards market that determine thesituation. They are ATI and NVIDIA, two uncompromising rivals, which have been competing with oneanother for years. Today we will witness the battle between the newest graphics chips from ATIand their direct competitors from NVIDIA. Who will win?

NVIDIA Quadro 4 980 XGL (AGP 8x) in 3ds max 5

[ 12/14/02 | by FastSite]

Not so long ago NVIDIA announced their first professional graphics card aka Quadro 4 980 XGL.It differs from the predecessor, Quadro 4 900 XGL, only by the implemented support of the new AGP8x bus. We tested this solution in the newest 3ds max 5 application to see what are the advantagesof the AGP 8x in professional tasks.

ATI RADEON 9700 PRO Extreme Overclocking Experience

[ 12/11/02 | by FastSite]

Well, it looks as if NVIDIA has got a really serious cause for concern: ATI RADEON 9700 Pro provedcapable of beating NVIDIA's brand new highly praised GeForceFX solution. Are you curious to findout how come? Sure! Read our review and learn how your RADEON 9700 Pro graphics card can get upto 35% faster!

NVIDIA NV18/NV28 and AGP 8x Investigation

[ 12/06/02 | by FastSite]

On September 25, NVIDIA introduced its new graphics chips supporting the AGP 3.0 standard and 8xdata-transfer speed. The chips boasted higher working frequencies as well. But what hides behindthese praised innovations? What are the advantages? Read the review to find out the truth!

ATI RADEON 9000 Pro Extreme Overclocking Experience

[ 10/15/02 | by FastSite]

Well, overclocking is a very risky occupation, but we couldn't resist the temptation of trying someof our perfectly mastered soldering techniques on the new representative of the today's graphics elite.We will apply our extreme overclocking methodology to ATI RADEON 9000 Pro!

Contemporary Graphics Accelerators in 3ds max 5

[ 10/10/02 | by FastSite]

We tested the today's fastest gaming graphics cards, namely ATI RADEON 9700 Pro, Matrox Parhelia-512and NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4600, in the newest 3D modeling software package - the famous 3ds max 5. Will thebest performance remain with the NVIDIA's solution?

ATI RADEON 9000 and RADEON 9000 PRO: 64MB vs. 128MB

[ 10/07/02 | by FastSite]

ATI's value "RV250" chip hit the graphics market in two variants: ATI RADEON 9000 PRO and ATI RADEON 9000.In this review we are going to see how fast these solutions equipped with 64MB and 128MB of memory are,especially against the background of such powerful rivals as ATI RADEON 8500 LE 128MB and NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti200.