ATI Radeon 64MB DDR

Pros: 64 MB DDR RAM, Video in/Video out (VIVO)
Cons: Driver updates are infrequent

Sorry, nVidia fans... Although I am a great fan of the GeForce3, like all Britney Spears fans (ew), I can't touch the object of my affection.

GeForce3 is WAY OUT THERE in terms of pricing ($360+), and all of the boards based on this chipset...

Pros: Great performance and plenty of memory!
Cons: The price, slightly under $200.

This powerful video card was retailing for $399 and now if you click on “Check Latest Prices” through Epinions, you will find it for as low as $185.

This video card gives you 64MB of 5.5ns DDR memory running at 166MHz. DDR (Double Data Rate)...

Pros: Blistering speed. lots of features inc DVD
Cons: bit hefty on the pocket, The creative geforce 2 might be a better value buy

The Radeon from ATI has firmly established itself as one of the top 3 cards in the ever tightning 3D Graphics card business. ATI have not been known in the past for releasing mind blowing speed cards, but for there more user friendly, does the job cards,...

Pros: Awesome card on ALL fronts from DVD to 3D. Ready for the future!
Cons: None

Updated Dec 27 - 2000 I guessed right!! Nvidia does have a major re-thinking going on... They just bought 3DFX's "Intellectual Property", my guess is to conjure up something that can compete with Radeon in (What Else) Open GL...
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Pros: Incredible DVD playback and outstanding 32 bit performance!
Cons: Drivers are a bit buggy...

Among the various graphic card manufacturers, Nvidia and 3dfx were the leaders in 3d graphic performance. ATi tried to enter the market with the Rage128 chip, hoping to compete with the bigboys. ATi was always know for their amazing video features that...

Pros: Great features, high performance in 32 bit applications
Cons: Price is a tad bit high, budget gamers may want to wait for 32 MB SDR version. Also, performance in 16 bit leaves a bit to be desired

ATi has been a very successful comany. While nVidia and 3dfx duke it out for the performance crown, with such descriptive adjectives like "Ultra" and etc thrown in for good measure, ATi has been pretty much content with making not-so-small...

Pros: Pure and simple speed and clarity always wanted in a vid card
Cons: Definitely not for older PCs

Introduction
Well hello again I thought I would write another computer hardware epinion as it has been a while since I took a stab at one of these forgive me if I don't match up to my old ways. I had a computer guru buddy of mine go out and...

Pros: The fastest card in 32-bit color, extra features
Cons: GeFoce2 GTS still the king in 16-bit color

UPDATE! 9/19/2000 - Recently, a number of hardware test sites reported that OEM versions of the 64 MB DDR Radeon card are clocked at 166 MHz rather than the 183 MHz advertised on Retail boxes. For all the details, go here:

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Pros: Great card, great features, great multimedia for your computer.
Cons: A few minor details to watch out for (shown in this review).

I recently was in the market for a new graphics card. My old Voodoo3 didn't quite have the "oomph" that it used to have, and I was also looking for a graphics card that could hook up to my TV and play DVD's while giving me a great solution for my gaming...

Pros: excellent performance, good specs like 64Mb of DDR memory, quickest card available at the moment, cheaper than GeForce 2 and quicker
Cons: a little expensive because it's just been released

ATI have always had a reputation as the nearly boys of the video card market. They have always been able to produce reasonably cheap video cards, with excellent DVD playback and TV Out facilities, in fact the best video cards for DVD playback are ATI...

Pros: Fast, stable, lots of features.
Cons: Can't get the DVD player to work

My current system used to have the Nvidia GeForce Plus video card. Recently, much to my chagrin and annoyment, it went bad on me. It caused my monitor to make dark bands run across the screen, and created an eye-straining haze on the entire screen...

Pros: Lightning fast performance
Cons: Pricey

For a home graphics card, this card is very, very fast. It doesn't matter how high you crank the resolution on this baby, it won't slow down (much.) It's also got one of the best DVD decoders on the market.

For those of you who don't know, a...

Pros: performance, lots of features, best DVD playback
Cons: value, horrible drivers

Abstract:

The Radeon is very nice, but the many nVidia licensees make price comparisons tough. Performance-wise, it’s a toss up. Driver-wise nVidia is tops.

Design/Installation:

It’s as easy to install as any...

Pros: Incredibly Fast, 64 MB DDR, plays most new games with perfect frame rates
Cons: Drivers are buggy, annoying fan

ATI has never been taken seriously by gamers for their video cards. They were bug ridden and always many steps behind nVidia's offerings. So when the ATI Radeon came out most people didn't look twice. Why would they, with their past, and the fact that a...

Pros: Powerful card.
Cons: Poor dvd decoding.

The reason I write this opinion is because I found one of the features of the Radeon to be extremely lacking in performance. The Radeon 64ddr card is advertised as having superior dvd decoding. I got the card for that purpose (in addition to it...

Pros: TV output, Video input available, DVD hardware acceleration. Good performance
Cons: ATI sometimes a bit slow on driver fixes.

I started looking at the Radeon because my Epox Ep7kxa motherboard has the VIA KX133 chipset which has been found to be mostly incompatible with 90% of the GeForce Cards available on the market, especially the reasonably priced MX cards.

My...

Pros: fast, great DVD playback
Cons: ATI bad with driveres

ATI was never a big thing in the 3d gaming industry. 3dfx first ruled, followed by nVidia. nVidia's rule was so strong 3dfx just all but went out of business. That leaves nVidia's GeForce and up and coming NV20. But wait - ATI wowed the scene with the...

Pros: Excellent 32-bit performance
Cons: Drivers are still somewhat buggy

Last month I purchased an ATI Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO graphics card after I ran into problems with my previous card, a GeForce 256-based Creative Annihilator Pro card with 32MB of DDR memory. Specifically, with newer drivers (both Creative's drivers and...

Pros: Image Quality, speed, price (in 32mb version)
Cons: ?

The ATI Radeon is a very fast card. But this is not the only reason why it is also one of the best cards around at the moment.



Brought out initially to challenge the GeForce 2 GTS, the second incarnation of the all-conquering...

Pros: Has the best longetivity of any card out there
Cons: Will never dominate the fps or benchmark tests

You can buy it for $299, and come Christmas, you can expect those prices to go down even further. But I'm not writing this article about the prices (well not solely anyways) but I wish to discuss the greatness that the Radeon is. Now ATi has not been...

Pros: 64Mb, video in/out, excellent 2D performance.
Cons: poor OpenGL support, poor drivers, lack of helpful support.

While this card is an excellent piece of hardware, with awesome specs and many features, I have had endless compatibility problems with this card. I have used every supported and "special purpose" (beta) driver released since Jan 2001, and no one driver...

Pros: High quality DVD playback, excellent 32-bit color
Cons: Linux needs updates to use this, not the fastest card for games

When I started playing lots of 32-bit color 3-D games, I realized I needed a newer graphics card with more memory. Linux compatibility was also important to me. The exact model I purchased was the 64 MB DDR VIVO Radeon card.

I compared...

Pros: Detailed graphics, perfect for games, cheap if you shop around.
Cons: Even when found cheap, is it worth the price?

I originaly bought a non-name-brand 16MB video card, that didn't work with anything. I had purchased it at CompUSA, and after 5 months of trying it out with different games and video editing software I decided that it was worthless, and I needed...

Pros: GAMES,GAMES,GAMES,also DVD :-)
Cons: Cost.

I have tested many video cards and I can say this may be my favorite. If you dont care about the cost buy it! Any real gamer needs a card like this. It can handle any game. Outshining my TNT2 in fps(frames per second) on most simulation games, and...

Pros: 64 MB DDR RAM, VIVO , Rage Theater Chip for encoding MPEG-2 and decoding DVD.
Cons: None as of yet.

At first I was skeptical about buying the ATI Radeon 64MB card. I was contemplating on getting the Elsa Geforce card or the ATI Radeon, so you can see where I was having trouble deciding which to buy. But eventually I ended up buying the Radeon and I'm...

Pros: 64mb DDR memory, very very quick, cheaper than GF2
Cons: costs a fair bit

This is the premier graphics card available at the moment, on a par with the Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS. Trust me I have seen this card in action and it absolutely flies along. It has all the advanced features you'd expect from a graphics card nowadays, like...

Pros: Lots of Memory, fast, image quality, price, DVD playback is great.
Cons: driver updates

My radeon 64 mb ddr is the greatest graphics card i have ever used. It combines power with a price that won't leave you with an expensive card, and no games.

the radeon's features are great. It comes with 64 megabytes of DDR memory clocked...

Pros: Speed, color depth, and functionality with a Viewsonic VG 175 (LCD)
Cons: DVD playback

I wanted to briefly share with everyone a problem I have had with this card. Most of the other reviews cover in great detail the card and how sweet it is. So I want to briefly share with you a difficulty I have had.

The card, for all intents...

Pros: crisp, sharp graphics. Compatible with win2k. amazing resolutions/refresh rates
Cons: only possible one is the cost, but you get what you pay for.

First off, I am not a hardcore gamer. I don't always have to have the newest and the best when it comes to computer parts. I don't do framerate benchmark tests, nor do I care much about them. I care about only a couple things: How well the card works...

Pros: Good card
Cons: Not up to pace with todays cards

I got a radeon not to long ago (64mb DDR) and it served my old tnt2 m64 right in the butt.

Things::: in low res modes it happens to have this penciled look to it..

Thought it does not have as many power over heads as NVIDIA cards...

Pros: OK graphics
Cons: Bad coded drivers Bad support Bad compatablility

The day before my birthday, I went to CompUSA to buy a new sound and video card. I bought a SoundBlaster Live! and this card. The next day I went to go pick them up. I asked them if I could boot up and make sure everything was ok. Everything looked ok,...

Pros: Fast, Smooth, Affordable, easy to install.
Cons: None to speak of.

There are plenty of other epinions on here that will give you all the wonderful specs of this card, so I will not dive into that. I am going to get to what you care about, visual results.

Visually this card far exceeds what I have...

Pros: Great support sites, Great hardware.
Cons: Drivers (Argh!), Lack of promised features.

I purchased my Radeon 64 as a retail card in Jan. of this year. The first 2 weeks were a nightmare. No matter what I tried I was unable to get the ATI DVD software to function and had problems with games. Well after discovering www.rage3d.com I was...

Pros: Res., FPS,64MBs, Acellarated for Open GL and Direct X.
Cons: Expensive, Drivers need work.

This is Ati's highest performance product on the market. There is only one other company that rivals this product, the company is no other than Nvidia. The are many great things about the Radeon that it renders everything very crisp. One other thing...

Pros: Fast! Fluid graphics! DDR is Incredible! Best card I've owned!
Cons: Price! (I can't complain I got a great deal on mine)

I'll make this quick. I'm a gamer. Quake II / Quake III / Unreal / Rogue Spear... I like to play through my cable modem on Mplayer (when their software works). This card ROCKS. No hang ups. The graphics are Fluid. My 0-25 ping helps to. I am...

Pros: fast card, large feature set includign hardware for dvd playback.
Cons: not the fastest card avalible

I ultimatly decided on the ATI card because of it's large feature set. It supported features that are not yet implemented in games but probably will be soon. Since i cannot upgrade every time a new card comes out I wanted one that was going to last me...

Pros: Awesome 3D performance in today's and tomorrows games.
Cons: Memory not clocked high enough to take advantage of the GPU.

Okay, I was shopping for a Video card to replace my 3D Prophet IIMX. I reviewed many Video cards such as the GeForce2 GTS Pro and the GeForce3. Out of all the cards I reviewed the GeForce3 had the best framerates and 3D performance. But, It didn't have a...

Pros: Extremely Good Card for a very low price.
Cons: Still can't match up to nVida's GeForce.

My friend made a new Compupter, its one of those computers that everyone wants because it has about 1500 MHz and a 256 MB Ram, whith this amazing ATI Radeon 64 MB card. Also, he got NHL 2001, the graphics are amazing, you can overclock the card too, and...

Pros: Excellent picture quality, DVD playback, and good video capture
Cons: Not fast enough for newer 3D games

This review is for the Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO retail card which was released with the higher core clock speed (183mhz). I bought this card a year ago and have been very pleased with the performance. This is a great card if you are a casual gamer, surf...

Pros: 64 MB, Video IN/OUT
Cons: Falsified Benchmark, Buggy Drivers

I returned my ATI card immediately upon hearing they modified their drivers to increase their Quake 3 benchmark scores.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48577,00.html

If you play games, be prepared to update drivers...