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I would have to say that ATI has a tremendous job in giving nVidia a run for their money. The mainstream market is pretty much made up of these two giants. ATI’s Radeon chip series is a remarkable new chip technology. Designed for high-end graphic manipulation, the Radeon chip has proven to be more than just a regular video card.

Today’s computer user is concerned about the type and quality of the video card. When testing video cards, framerate isn’t enough as a measure of quality. Features and image quality are rapidly becoming priorities that the industry must address.

Today, I am going to pit ATI’s Radeon 7500 against nVidia’s workhorse, the GeForce series. First, lets look at the features of the Radeon 7500.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Pentium® 4/Celeron™/III/II, AMD® K6/Athlon® or compatible with AGP 2X or AGP 2X/4X universal slot
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
  
• DVD playback requires DVD drive on PCs with an Intel® Pentium® II processor (or equivalent) and 32MB of system memory

Graphics controller

• RADEON™ 7500 graphics processing unit (GPU)

Memory configuration

• 64MB DDR

Operating systems support

• Windows® 98/98SE
• Windows® Me
  
• Windows® 2000
• Windows® NT 4.0
• Windows® XP
  

Monitor support

• CRT Monitor: 15-pin VGA connector S-Video or composite connector
• DVI-I (flat panel display) connector
  

Display support

• Register compatible with VGA
• BIOS compatible with VESA for super VGA
• DDC1/2b/2b+ monitor support
• VESA Display Power Management Support
• Separate horizontal & vertical synchronization at TTL levels