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Articles: Video
Gigabyte Maya II R9200 Graphics Card Review: AGP 8x Conquers the Value MarketCategory: Video [ 06/17/2003 | 11:33 PM ] We reviewed one of the latest value graphics cards from Gigabyte based on ATI RADEON 9200 chip. This solution boasts the support of the new AGP 8x standard. Let’s find out what the advantages of this feature are. Table of contents:
As you know, the AGP 8x standard proposed by Intel can provide twice the bandwidth of the currently mainstream AGP 4x. Curiously enough, the unpretentious SiS was the first to implement this standard in its Xabre graphics chips family just over a year ago, while the graphics giants, ATI Technologies and NVIDIA Corporation, were a bit slower. Next came ATI with its brilliant RADEON 9700 PRO, the first graphics chip in this world to feature DirectX 9.0 support. NVIDIA followed shortly with its NV18 and NV28 chips. So, only the value cards from ATI in the RADEON 8500/9100 and RADEON 9000 families (R200 and R250 chips, respectively) couldn’t boast the new standard for a while.
But now, a new chip (RV280) comes instead of RV250. In fact, it only differs from the predecessor by its AGP 8x support, nothing else. ATI christened this chip as RADEON 9200, which is confusing enough, although such confusion has become a trademark of ATI: the 9100 graphics chip family (R200) performs nearly always faster than cards based on RV250/RV280 (RADEON 9000/9200). An innocent user might be misled to think that RADEON 9200 is faster in 3D applications than RADEON 9100, but that’s absolutely wrong. Moreover, we have the same picture with RADEON 9500 PRO and RADEON 9600 PRO: the 9600 PRO based solutions are always slower than the 9500 PRO based ones. Let this be the shame of all marketing folk at ATI… Now, let’s discuss the technical characteristics of RV280 graphics chip. Closer Look at RV280: What RADEON 9200 Has and Can?
As you see we have a typical value graphics chip with DirectX 8.1 support and some interesting features like FullStream technology. Unfortunately, RealPlayer only supports this technology so far. DixX Player, which is a more popular multimedia player from the DivX bundle, also supports it since 2.1 version, but only in cards based on R300/R350 and RV350 chips. <%BANNER[banner_468x30]%>
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Category NewsCategory: Video Friday, July 25, 200812:31 pm Channel Vendors Demand Graphics Cards Suppliers to Recall Potentially Faulty Nvidia GeForce Graphics Cards. Resellers Want to Return Potentially Faulty Nvidia GeForce Graphics Boards to Makers Thursday, July 17, 20085:48 am Microsoft Preps to Unveil DirectX 11 Features in Several Days. ATI, Nvidia, Microsoft to Discuss DirectX 11 Techniques at XNA, Siggraph Wednesday, July 16, 200812:30 pm New Generation ATI Radeon for Mainstream, Mobile Markets are Ready. PCI-SIG Approves ATI RV730, M98-L, M96 Graphics Chips 7:22 am EVGA and XFX Reimburse Price Difference on GeForce GTX 200 after Price Collapse. EVGA and XFX to Return Money to GeForce GTX 200 Purchasers Tuesday, July 15, 20084:23 pm Startup Promises to Revolutionize Multi-GPU Technology Early Next Year. LucidLogix Unveils Hydra Distributed Processing Engine All Latest News <%BANNER[right_130x130_1]%>
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