FIC AT010 Radeon 9700 PRO Review - PAGE 1
Neumann Lim - Thursday, October 31st, 2002

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Following ATI closely, FIC has produced a Radeon 9700 PRO card called the AT010. FIC is a notable manufacturer of mainboards, and ATI based videocards that is aggressively targetting cutting edge customers. The AT010 is remarkably similar to ATI's Radeon 9700 PRO video card, right down to the architecture, type of capacitors and DDR used.

Today is a followup of the Radeon 9700 with FIC's addition to the list of growing manufacturers supporting the ATI Radeon 9700 series. First, lets look at the features of the FIC AT010.

VPU Core/Memory Clock Advanced 3D Features Memory Type Bus Type Display Support Max. 3D Resolution OS Support Bundled Software

Radeon 9700Pro 325MHz / 310MHz SMARTHEADER 2.0 SMOOTHVISION 2.0 HYPERZ III TRUFORM 2.0 VIDEOSHADER 128MB DDR (Samsung) RAMDAC 400MHz AGP 8x or 4x compatible VGA TV-Out DVI-I 2048 x 1536 x 75Hz Windows ME/2000/XP Cyberlink PowerDVD 4.0

The new AT010 takes the PC entertainment experience to a totally new level. Powered by the advanced ATI RADEON 9700 PRO Visual Processing Unit (VPU), the AT010 features the very latest in Video and 3D graphics technology. Unique VIDEOSHADER and FULLSTREAM technology provides the very best video playback possible, 8 parallel rendering pipelines combined with 4 parallel geometry engines which provide the fastest 3D gaming performance anywhere. The AT010 fully supports Microsoft DirectX 9.0. You can read more about the advanced features of the 9700 PRO VPU through our ATI 9700Pro review, which introduces some of the technologies ATI has rolled out for its "nvidia" killer.

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