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Rumor: Radeon 9700 at MWSF?
By Remy Davison, Insanely Great Mac
December 17th 2002
Next high-end Power Mac could see 128MB Radeon on board.
You have to be eagle-eyed to spot this one.
Lionel, at French hardware site MacBidouille, notes that Apple has published the list
of games to be demoed at MacWorld San Francisco next month. Among them is Unreal
Tournament 2003.
Lionel estimates that you'd need an ATI Radeon 9700 minimum to run Unreal Tournament
2003 at full speed, given the demands it makes on processing power (you'd need a
1.5GHz DP Power Mac as well, but you probably guessed that was coming already).
Power Macs currently ship with either a Radeon 9000 or a choice of GeForce MX graphics
cards. Apple also uses Radeon 7500 and 9000 chipsets on its iBook and PowerBook,
respectively.
ATI's Radeon 9700 Pro features 128MB DDR memory, AGP 8x support, and can process 2.5
billion pixels per second and has DVI, VGA and support for hi-defintion TV out.
Analysis: If there is a Power Mac upgrade - a likely event at MWSF - it's fairly
typical that a bigger, faster video card comes with a bumped processor. Whether a 9700
would be standard on the high-end or BTO is anyone's guess, but Apple has been quick
to adopt ATI's fastest graphics cards in recent years.
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