AnandTech has posted a review of a new ATI’s low-cost solution – RADEON VE. The shipments of this new product have been started today. This graphics card is selling at the recommended price of $99. And the most attractive feature is dual-monitor support. As for 3D, RADEON VE isn’t that powerful there. It has only one rendering pipeline, no HW T&L and 64bit memory bus, although it uses DDR SDRAM. Therefore, VE seems to be intended mostly for 2D applications even though the integrated RAMDAC is only 300MHz. Here is a bit from the review:

The price of the Radeon VE is right. At $99 after a $20 mail in rebate, the card provides dual display capabilities at the lowest price out there. However, with the GeForce2 MX also costing around $100 and the Radeon SDR at $99, the Radeon VE has quite some competition, even with another ATI product. One has to wonder if now was the best time to introduce this card and if the extremely budget oriented Radeon VE was the product to do so on. For some the answer will be yes, as the low price of the Radeon VE provides excellent mult-monitor support for a powerful workstation. For many, however, the answer will be no. Many will prefer to wait for a higher performance multi-monitor solution from ATI, or perhaps to go with the GeForce2 MX so that their workstation can be a truly powerful gaming system as well.

See the complete review here.