Reactor Critical heeft een review van een nieuwe ATI kaart, de Xpert 2000. Dit kaartje draagt 32MB mee, maar de performance is (no surprise here) vanwege de Rage 128 VR chip met een 64-bit memory bus lekker laag gehouden. Check de review hier.
ATI is the first company that released a sub-$100 32Mb board. Using that large amount of memory is undoubtedly a marketing step - the Rage 128 VR with its quite low speed suits only for medium resolutions (max. 800x600x16) and additionally performs slowly in 32-bits because of the narrow 64-bit memory bus. That's why in this class of boards the optimum memory size is 16Mb.The Xpert 2000 is not a very speedy board but has a perfect DVD support. That's the fact that at least somehow equalizes the board with other sub-$100 competitors. In the end I have to say that production boards may happen to work at higher frequencies.
