The Radeon Experience
Having been fortunate enough to own several different graphics cards from the Radeon family, I have had a pretty nice opportunity to see the variations and advancements from one generation to the next. At times I’ve been thoroughly impressed, and at others dismally disappointed, but on the whole, ATI has delivered a very exciting line. So one day I thought, “How fun it would be to compare the Radeons I’ve owned.” Well, what started as my own little comparison has become a much larger project, and has turned out to be a very enjoyable blast from the past to look at the roots of our present day Radeons.
Just as a note, this exploration of the Radeons is not to be a comparison with Nvidia. They have played leap-frog with each other so much in their insatiable battle for the GPU crown, that it is impossible to objectively declare which company’s product is “better.”
Let’s start by going back to the late 1990s. 3Dfx was the undisputed King o’ the World, and we prostrated ourselves before the might and beauty of Voodoo2 SLI. Nvidia was developing their TNT graphics chip (which was not too shabby) and would soon let loose their GeForce, and there were a few other players like S3, Matrox, and Intel (yes, they had a discrete video chip line). ATI had the Rage line. This later included such chips as: 3D Rage II+, Rage Pro Turbo, Rage 128 Pro, Rage 128 GL, Rage LT Pro, etc., etc.
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