A little while ago we posted an in-depth review of the Tyan Tachyon G9500 PRO graphics card. It scored excellent marks due to its high performance, high production quality as well as hardware monitoring and cooling control systems. However, the lifetime of the RADEON 9500 PRO graphics chip turned to be very short. Right now ATI is winding up its R300 manufacture, and offers advanced and low-cost graphics processors: R350 and RV350.
RV350 is exactly aimed at the price niche which used to be occupied by ATI’s R300-based cards: RADEON 9500 and 9500 PRO. Unlike its predecessor, RV350 is made with a finer 0.13micron, manufacturing technology. This helps it to work at higher frequencies while producing less heat. On the other hand, this chip contains only four rendering pipelines against eight in the original R300, which quite naturally leads to lower performance in a variety of tasks. Of course, its higher clock-rate may make up for it and even bridge the gap altogether. That’s what we are going to check out in this review. Right now, let’s get acquainted with the list of RV350 features.
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