Sounds like the Radeon according to this article
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-9100.html
We guess you are troubled by one single question: why RADEON 8500
again when there has already been so much talk about it already. Well,
it does make sense. First of all, out benchmarking proved that RADEON
9100 64MB is identical to RADEON 8500LE with the same amount of
memory. Second, we saw that there is no reason to buy a 9100 card with
128MB memory: this extra memory will not pay back as efficiently as in
case of RADEON 8500!
Third, and most important of all, these cards are most appealing today
from the pricing point of view. We have already mentioned in the
beginning of the review that RADEON 9100 and 9000 PRO based cards cost
about the same amount of money. Meanwhile, the first one is faster
nearly everywhere (the incident with the OpenGL driver is surely going
to be amended soon). Moreover, the card from CP.Technology boasts that
VIVO feature – an excellent choice if you are into video editing.
Overall, RADEON 9100 is a nice buy today (you can find a brand-name
GeForce4 MX440-8x for the same money, but this GPU doesn’t have as
many features to boast).
There is only one question left: do the re-marked RADEON 8500LE spoil
the day for RADEON 9000/PRO? Aren’t ATI and its partners running into
the same trap once again?
Or will they reduce the price for RADEON 9000/PRO even lower? Just to
give a warm welcome to upcoming GeForceFX 5200?
It’s none of our
business, though – let them decide for themselves. We deal with what
we have – low-cost graphics cards supporting all necessary features
and technologies (DirectX 9.0 won’t come onto the scene in the next
half a year, at least, while DirectX 8.1 offers enough functionality).
That’s good for users, while game developers might get an incentive to
use such functions in their products.
Yeah, GeForce FX 5200 GPUs are going to flood the market soon and they
will probably cost even less. But how many “cripples” is there going
to be among them? Those with the 64-bit memory bus or downright slow
memory (and we have already seen such cards in stores). Even DirectX
9.0 support won’t help them become very popular.
