25 Years Of Graphics History: A Farewell To ATI, In Pictures

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This has got to be the worst article I have ever read on any hardware website.

It is so bad that I will be writing a factual article over at xcpus just to counter the mis-information (and outright errors) presented in many of these slides.

Do you know anything about ATi? Do you? Because your "knowledge" seems to be quite amateur.

You also forgot the R6 (Radeon256). It spawned products such as the Radeon 64MB ViVo, Radeon 64MB SDR/7000/7200 and the Radeon 32MB DDR. Those were highly successful products.
 
Radeon 8500 beat out its competitor (GeForce3).

Radeon 9700 Pro and its derivatives (the rest of the R3x0 and derivative series) beat out their competitors as well.

Hell the x800XT Platinum Edition beat out the GeForce 6800 Ultra in terms of performance nearly across the board (sure it arrived late but whatever). Even the x800XT beat out the 6800 Ultra in the majority of applications. The 6800GT was mostly competitive with the x800 Pro/XL.

The x1900XT beat out its competitor
The x1900XTX beat out its competitor
The x1950XT beat out its competitor
the X1950XTX beat out its competitor

How can you not know this?
 
[citation][nom]doped[/nom]ATI's anti aliasing was always a hack compared to nvidia. as soon as my 4850, it looked blurred instead of real AA. it quickly went out of my machine again. sorry, ATI. you failed in filters, and when you play low res fast fps, you'd want smooth but not blurred.[/citation]
It's the other way around actually. ATi's AA has nearly always been superior to that of nVIDIA. Only since the AdaptiveAA fiasco has nVIDIA caught up. I believe this was around the time of the 7800/7900 series if memory serves me right.

Do you remember nVIDIA's Quincunx AA? You want to talk about blurry?

As for today... you can't tell the difference between the two.
 
And your comment on the 4870 X2 was purely false and fabricated.

Woah! If size was everything, this double decker would be a star (at least when the drivers enabled CrossFire). The joy of owning this card was completely dependent on software, it seemed.
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Sure it was a big card but not nearly as large as the GTX 295. The 4870 X2 is/was a star. Rarely did games not support Crossfire with it.

So you're an nVIDIA fan. Perhaps Toms should let you go. You shouldn't be writing articles.
 
Take a success story, squeeze it just a bit more and…no, we're not talking about the G92 this time. Rather, we're looking at the Radeon HD 4890, based on the same general architecture at the heart of Radeon HD 4870.
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WTF does a G92 have to do with an article on ATi's 25 years? And a G92 had about 6 (if not more) different variants. How is that comparable to a 4870 --> 4890?
 
I'm done now...

You sir need to learn how to stay "objective". Articles ought to be "objective". Your subjective opinion is slipping through during most of these slides.

I don't think you have business writing articles for a reputable website. Just sayin'.
 
I'll keep my first-gen 4850 a little while more, as I don't game much (and, as far as I know, the 4850 is still not slow enough to count as "baseline") and managed to overcome its two big flaws:
- a dual slot aftermarket cooler reduced the temp from 90°C+ on load to 55°C
- a customized VBIOS with much lower core and RAM frequencies reduced the power drain (I would wager that frequencies of 165MHz/500MHz do drain less than 500/700), akin to those found on HD5xxx versions...

If ever I need more horsepower, I would think this setup could handle a little overclock.
 
I never thought that an article from Toms would be so lacking. I love history but hate it when its written either by children or ignoramuses.
This/these clown/s never knew about the period when the 9700/9800 pro were giants in the same way that the nvid 8800 dominated the world in later years?
Do you not have a grownup editor who reads the articles first?
 
it really seems like the author has something against ATI, everyone has something negative about their products, but you got something bad to say about every line up.

AMD is now just a parent company and doesnt actually mfg the cards...i found that out when trying to warranty an ICEq card a few months ago...i had to go directly to HIS and they took care of me no problem (except a little slow)

I am very happy with the ATI/AMD products.
 
For what its worth, I am glad ATI went to AMD and we did not witness a chopping block scenario like with what happened to 3DFX when Nvidia laid their meat hooks into them. The name change makes sense. The product names wont change, and the employees still retain their jobs, and that history will always be there, and never forgotten, by our generation anyway. That and well, ATI and AMD just fit together rather well, and I feel like since ATI was purchased, AMD has really become a better company for it in the end.

They expanded a lot more, and the results can actually be both seen and felt. They were already a great company before, but now with even greater products across the board with bolder, more competitive prices. Their website and support for the end user seemed to take a massive change for the better too.
 
although I'm not that "know-it-all", ATI is well known for Video Cards, Truly ATI has contributed to computer work with finest, reliable and powerful Video Graphics Card, I salute you, ATI!
 
woot ATI got OWNED go the GREENS GOO NVIDIA WOOOOT poooned wont be ATI vs NVIDIA anymore is be AMD VS NVIDIA lol wtf? why wont some other huge company start makeing graphics cards
would be cool >.> then price wars WOULD like epic >.> i want a company that pwn ATI/AMD and nvidia ;D card with Phyix and extra Anti
 
This story really got me thinking about my graphics card history. I tried to remember them all, although I think I may have missed one...

98' Rage128
02' GeForce4 MX (terrible buy, didnt do my homework)
03' 9800 PRO
05' X1900 XT
07' 8800 GTX
08' GTX 260
11' HD6950

Brings back a lot of memories...
 
5770- A very solid card. In addition to running cooler than the GTX 260, it performed as well or better

5750's- visiontek 5750's were some of the best mid-range cards ever made
5850- died on me after about 7 months)

I will miss you ATI, but only until I receive my new 560 TI from UPS tomorrow.
 
Trying to get an ATI hater to apologize is like trying to get Charlie from semiaccurate to love Nvidia. It will never happen.
 
As many others have said, not the best article with many omissions and smelling of concealed bias. Certainly not fitting for something that should be an eulogy. Disappointed, I expected something better as ATI Technologies deserves.

Anyway, I will miss you ATI. Go AMD! The King is dead, long live the King!

I've been a happy owner of 3 Radeons so far:

- [MSI GeForce Ti4200-8X] - my first 3D gaming experience. Cards had great bundles that time.

- Sapphire Radeon 9800Pro - Great card. The performance increase in games was huge. Died after I sold it to my brother. Hehe.

- Sapphire Radeon X1900XT - I'm still puzzled how I ever came to buy this one. Not because of it's performance, but because of it's insane price. Was a top performer though, albeit noisy under load. Still works and is even working in my machine as I write this.

- Gainward Radeon HD 4870 1GB Golden Sample - Excellent card with a great and silent custom cooler (Gainward used to make Radeons for a really short time). Would be still working, but it died on me just yesterday because I foolishly short-circuited it by accident. Quite a loss, it's performance was great and I loved it. Replaced by my older X1900XT for the time being.

Salute ATI, of to buy myself a brand new XFX Radeon HD 6950 Dual Fan XXX 1GB right now! (I love it XFX is making Radeons now!)

 
Wish I had known that back when my troubles began. I originally had a MB/AGP card. the main board died it seemed, lights on , nobody home. I wanted a new board with AGP so I bought an MSI AGP MB only to discover the older AGP card was bad as well. However, since I had a new AGP MB I figured might as well get the latest greastest AGP card I can find...Sapphire 3850 AGP. Being that it was a new build I figured it would take a few days to tune it to my liking. The new 3850 worked fine, BUT evry so often the computer would just lock up. either within 2 minutes, 2 hours or 2 days from start up. i.e. random freeze with NO bsod or any indication of what's wrong. checked evet viewer and other stuff. pulled out cards,changed memory,changed drives. Changed the power supply, even did a different OS and still the system would freeze. So what's left? the MSI mb and the Video card. Seeing as how didn't want to plunk down hard earned cash on a new video card and since i was stuck with AGP I decided to buy an ASRock board that would handle AGP. Rebuild that system only to find I may have apparently bad 3850 or at least the drivers. NOW I get BSOD with reference to Ati3dvag error. So I guess it's a totally new build for me. As stated in beginning I wish I had known my original AGP was bad and would have gone to PCI Express back then.
 
My memory is so bad... but...
Should had mentioned that ATI was first for a whole year at DX11 if I am not mistaken.
Didn't they where first for DX10 too?
And what about that Anisotropic Filtering problem in old NVidia's and better graphic quality of ATI on those times?
It should have been mentioned, it was important for the ATI brand.
 
It reads like it was written by a 15-years old nVidia fanboy.
As Ed rightly remarked, R300 was ATI's first victory over nVidia and their Radeon9700PRO simply demolished Titanium series. No other card ever impressed me as much as R9700Pro All-in-wonder with remote-wonder... Amazing product. How could you miss R300 in this article of yours?
 
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