Monday, November 8, 1999

ATi Rage Fury MAXX at Sharky's -- 10:02 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Sharky Extreme has posted a "preview" of the ATi Rage Fury MAXX (ATi apparently figures the longer the name, the better). The MAXX is basically two Rage 128 Pro chips duct-taped together. Astonishingly, it managed to beat the GeForce in some benchmarks! Having said that, the MAXX has 64M RAM and the GeForce they use is the CL Annihilator with 32M. It would be interesting to see if a 64M GeForce would make much difference (much less one with DDR memory).

The conclusion? Here tis!

The ATi Rage Fury MAXX we tested is still in a Beta form. Its drivers will continue to mature on the way to its launch date in December. We're not sure exactly how much more performance will be squeezed from the MAXX's drivers as the card seems to be pretty solid in that department already.

Likewise, the drivers of the high-technology GeForce256 chip will also continue to mature, and could also bring gains in performance with them as NVIDIA's engineers optimize more of their new thoroughbred's raw potential.

Translation? They are both fast. They are better than the current crop of Voodoo3s and TNT2 Ultras. If ATi can release a fast, modern card, maybe there is hope for Rendition! Nah.

News for 11/08/1999

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