ATI Radeon X1000 Family Video Card Preview
We have ATI’s X1800 family of cards, but got mixed up with some driver issues just recently before the launch. nVidia sent us over their 81.82 drivers, but they had shimmering and some AA issues that we discovered two days before the X1800 launch. To be fair to ATI and our readers we are holding their X1800 review till we can redo the numbers. To make matters worse nVidia launched Forceware 81.84 drivers today, which we have never even heard of till just now. Our review will be published when fair and honest benchmarks are done. Till then take a look at [H]ard|OCP’s article where Brent used the latest public drivers from nVidia.
ATI Radeon X1000 Family Preview – It is finally here folks, ATI?s next generation video card technology. We will explore this new technology and run gameplay evaluations for you using two new ATI video cards competing directly with the competition.
“Well, it appears that the Radeon X1800 XL is not the GeForce 7800 GT killer everyone was hoping it would be. It seems that the cards trade blows back and forth depending on the game. In some games, the X1800 XL is faster; in other games, the GeForce 7800 GT is faster. We were hoping for a larger performance difference but we just didn?t find it. The Radeon X1800 XL is a very competitive video card to the GeForce 7800 GT, but it in no way does it ?blow it out of the water? in current games.”
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