ATI's Radeon 9700 is new performance king!

[redrumloa]

Matthew’s final statement sums up the feelings all of us at AnandTech had about the R300; we were impressed that John Carmack provided such a glowing endorsement of the technology back at Quakecon, but we were floored once we actually saw working silicon in action.

Read all about it HERE.

[Hattig]

There are also 3 articles on HardOCP that are interesting, and another on VIAHardware.

The new 9000 and 9000 Pro should be supported by OS4 without a problem, being very similar to the 8500, but the 9700 might require a lot more driver rework...

[Calen]

What a sweet powerfull card :-)

[redrumloa]

I'd happily take a All-In-Wonder 9700 in my A1:-D

[redrumloa]

Finally, at 1600x1200 the Radeon 9700 can play Unreal Tournament 2003 at the highest detail settings just fine; the R300 manages to outperform the fastest GeForce4 by an incredible 54%.

[System]

Mmm looks nice  :-D

I'll have to check the release dates on the other cards they mentioned (9000, 9500, and AIW)

Looks like NVida's 2 new card sets put a fire under ATI's belly  :-P

[Seehund]

Category: "Amiga, Inc. / Partners"??

[redrumloa]

Category: "Amiga, Inc. / Partners"??

Oversight on my part. I'll change it.

[Seehund]

Redrumloa:

I'll change it.

Ahem...

"Retail News / Sales"??

Let's wait until it's actually for sale.

What's wrong with "Hardware"?

Anyway, to comment on the article: Seems like a great piece of kit. ATI seems to have understood that your *new*  product generation needs to be better than (or at least as good as) your competitors' *old* product generation. Some day Matrox might understand this as well...

Hopefully the price of a used GeForce 4 Ti-4600 will drop radically when this baby is out!