markgun's Full Review: ATI RADEON 9000 PRO, (64 MB) AGP Video Card
For $74, this is a very powerful card; however, since it only has 1 texture unit per pipe, it lacks performance when compared to the Radeon 8500 which has 2 TMUs. Also, my machine with a Gainwaird Golden Sample Geforce3 Ti200 offers much better performance in games based off the Unreal 2003 Engine. It fully supports Glide and OpenGL. The anisotropic filtering performance is very good; there's virtually no performance hit from using AF. The Anti-aliasing performance is lack-luster; the framerate drops far too low when using AA. The cool running GPU keeps the case temperatures down. The DVD motion compensation chip really works good. In my opinion, it's as good as a separate dedicated hardware decoder. The ATI driver installation is very good and continually improving. If there's ever a problem, I can almost guarantee it will be fixed within the next driver release. Driver issues are a thing of the past with ATI. All-in-all, it is an above average card
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