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Flipper - The Nintendo GameCube contains a 3D accelerator developed by ArtX, Inc, a company acquired by ATI during the development of the GPU. Flipper is similar in capability to a Direct3D 7 accelerator chip. It consists of 4 rendering pipelines, with hardware T&L, and some limited pixel shader support. Innovatively the chip has 3 MiB of embedded 1T-SRAM for use as ultra-fast low-latency (6.2 ns) texture and framebuffer/Z-buffer storage allowing 10.4 GB/second bandwidth (extremely fast for the time). Flipper was designed by members of the Nintendo 64 Reality Coprocessor team who moved from SGI. The Flipper team went on to have a major hand in development of the Radeon 9700.
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All past and current ATI Catalyst drivers for all ATI Radeon series display cards contain several critical bugs that render the hardware unusable in professional 3D visual simulation applications. ATI has been aware of the problems since 2005 but has not fixed the most critical issues, has not announced an ETA for fixing them, or even acknowledged them publicly in their Known Issues for current releases.
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Radeon Series - Launched in 2000, the Radeon line is ATI's brand for their consumer 3D accelerator add-in cards. The original Radeon DDR was ATI's first DirectX 7 3D accelerator, introducing their first hardware T&L engine. ATI often produced 'Pro' versions with higher clock speeds, and sometimes an extreme 'XT' version, and even more recently 'XT Platinum Edition (PE)' and 'XTX' versions. The Radeon series was the basis for many ATI All-In-Wonder boards.
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The official ATI drivers ... support only a limited number of Radeon chipsets, namely the 9600-9800 and the Mobility Radeon X300-800 series, but apparently none in the "IGP" series. In short: if you're using a notebook or chipset not included in the list of "approved" systems for the Catalyst Mobility driver, you're out of luck. Well, not really.
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ATI makes wonderful cards, and you really can't beat the prices. And having pretty much all but dropped driver development for the original Radeon cards after only a year is too similiar to what happened to the Rage Fury and other ATI cards before it.
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Noticias 3D has posted a review of the ATi Radeon 7500 graphics card. While the review is not in English, there are plenty of benchmark results to be found which include Quake III Arena, Max Payne, Return to Castle Wolfestein, Giants, VillageMark and 3DMark2001.
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