i used ati x200 and x1350 and x550 as i guess it, the cards easily beated 6200 and 7300GT on my personal machine
You sure about that ? because 7300GT is much more powerful than all the cards mentioned there.
i bought a board for my fathers machine about 2 months back i.e ASUS M2A-VM with x1300 chipset.. the GFx onboard is Ati x1300 and it sucks like hell... it cannot even run most wanted good enough.. while 6200 on board (6100 chipset ) can
I am sure the 690G was much powerful than the 6100 for sure.God knows why you found it to be crappy
well it gave me a impression that Ati has gone Down in the field of GFX... and now they are going for those X2 cards ,, god help them... no sorry.. NVIDIA help them..
You are judging ATI by all these low end cards that you have mentioned and onboard ? Dude whats wrong with you ?
Seriously, whats wrong with the X2 ? Its a powerful card, FASTEST one money can buy right now,its cheap too. Remember when 8800 Ultra came ? It retailed at around 550-600$
I really dont see what wrong have AMD done since they acquired ATI.
I have been watching ATI since a long time man, since 9800 Pro, 9500Pro days.
They SUCKED big time when it came to launches. After 9800Pro something went wrong, not a single card was launched as announced,reasons for this are best known to ATI.
HD2900 aka R600 was the first high end part ATI released after acquisition.And the delay was because of ATI and not AMD mind you.
If you think ATI is down in dumps, i wonder why all the 3DMark2006 World Records are held by ATI Card ?
Care explaining that ?
For that matter they dominate Single card as well as Multiple card records.
just before AMD acquiring ATI, ATI was losing with a mamoth heat engine-the 2900XT. It was by all means inferior to nvidia counterparts 8800 in performance, price, heat, powerconsumption, drivers everythin.
Wow ! thats a bold statement.
I would have to disagree with you. Agreed that it lost the battle BUT if you have observed the R600 carefully, you will know, specswise its a MONSTER. It had the capabaility of battering the 8800 Ultra,unfortunately it didnt, drivers sucked big time.
R600 showcased memory bandwidth that was never seen before, ever heard of 140 GBps ? R600 did that and even more
ATI Ring memory controller is very very efficient too.
R600 suffered due to 80nm Fab process. It was a complex architecture and the 80nm fab process was not the ideal one for that.
If you observe RV670 Pro and RV670XT i.e 3850 and 3870, they share a lot of similarity with the R600, with 55nm Fab process, they showed their potential.
AMD did what ATI couldnt do for so many years, Hard Launch on time and at reasonable price point. the 3870 was Out Of Stock for a long time with many popular US Etailers, clearly indicating their popularity.
These cards again gave people the option of having excellent performance for less money.
This is where Nvidia had been ruling for so many years. AMD hit the sweet spot of strong mid end segment sales with 3850 and 3870.
Also the R600 based FireGL cards used in Workstations are so powerful that whatever Nvidia does, it does not have anything to counter it.
2600XT softmodded into FireGL give performance that can put some 500-1000$ Quadros to shame.
AMD offered mind blowing performance with R600 based FireGL at a price much much lower than Nvidia
Also the brute force of the R600(FireGL) had got Nvidia worried.
I guess this is sufficent to convince you that acquisition of ATI infact helped them.AMD got some lazy asses moving and bring out some very good products that ATI had developed.
So i dont think ATI is down in the dumps.
Just my opinion though.
