Niels Tijssen schrijft: "Tom heeft de ATi Radeon kaart op de snijtafel gelegd, en hem eens grondig ontleed. Zijn sectierapport is op zijn site te bekijken, en het is _erg_ uitgebreid."
Ome Tom is erg te spreken over de kaart: de 16-bit performance ziet hij niet als een probleem, de HyperZ feature om het bandbreedte probleem slim aan te pakken vindt hij ook leuk, de DVD en HDTV mogelijkheden zijn ook een positief punt en het heeft de beoordeling zeker geen pijn gedaan dat de kaart in 32-bit in resoluties boven de 1024x786 de GeForce2 verslaat :
First of all I'd like to note that Radeon's benchmark results at 16-bit color look worse than they are, simply because numbers can't give you a feel for game play. I understand if some of you might complain about Radeon's 16-bit performance, but the 16-bit scores of Radeon are only an issue if you happen to play at 1280x1024x16 or 1600x1200x16, because Radeon's scores are definitely good enough in all the lower 16-bit color resolutions. In those two resolutions GeForce 2 GTS is clearly and utterly beating the Radeon. This doesn't come as a surprise, because the NVIDIA chip does not suffer from memory bandwidth limitation as much in 16-bit color as it suffers in 32-bit color, making it able to reach at least 70% of its claimed fill rate. Radeon's HyperZ is also not too effective in 16-bit color, which is why Radeon's scores are almost identical in 16-bit color as in 32-bit color.
[...] I personally like the Radeon, which is mainly due to the elegant 'HyperZ'-feature with the stupid name. ATi has shown that the memory bandwidth issue can be tackled in a different way than with pure brute force. It's like a light and fast sports car with a much better fuel consumption thanks to smart technology.
[...] I am pretty sure that Radeon's performance will further improve once the drivers have matured a bit. I certainly look forward to the luxurious 'All-In-One' Radeon that's supposed to be released in early fall of this year. The SDR Radeon might mix up NVIDIA's GeForce 2 MX sales as well, because it is meant to offer performance that's close to DDR Radeon for a rather low price.