ZDNews reports that ATI Technology has slashed the price and increased the core clock speed just before it releases the high-end Radeon 8500 graphics board. When ATI introduced the board in mid-August, it announced the price as $399 and the core clock speed as 250MHz. But this week, the company dropped the price to $299 and increased the speed to 275MHz. The graphics board, which will be released Oct. 25, is used to enhance visual effects and 3D images, particularly for video games. The graphics board is also optimized to take advantage of WindowsXP. The card competes head to head with the new nVidia GeForce3 model, Ti 500.
ATi Radeon Graphics Board Gets Speed Boost, Price Cut
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Well, I’ve been holding onto my 3dfx Voodoo 3000 for over 3 years now, and have finally found a card worth upgrading to. Well done ATI, you’re still in the race, and looking strong.
Are you going to sacrifice BeOS support, Zenja?
The new Radeons and Radeon VE are not supported by this leaked 2D Radeon driver that was leaked last December.
Can anyone help me find another job so I can afford to donate to the DriverFund?
Tao-intent/elate/VP. I’ve been reading up on them since early September and I’m very impressed. Ordered the AmigaDE SDK two weeks ago, an oppurtunity has arisen which I cannot discuss 😉
Vesa 2.0 cannot be as bad as everyone claims it is?
I hope this new Radeon card is better than the one I have. I hate the stupid thing. It works great in Linux, but in Windows (where ATI controlls the driver) it is a POS. ATI support gets a big fat 0 rating for effectiveness in my opinion as well.
I think I will stick with NVidia from now on.