The first true lead in 2002: Radeon 9700, DX 9 era
Just as the NVIDIA GeFore 4 was in the limelight, ATI suddenly released their secret weapon based on the R300 core Radeon 9700. This is the first graphics card that supports DX 9.0, which is a great move for NVIDIA at the time. Due to NVIDIA's erroneous life expectancy of DX 8.0/8.1, the Radeon 9700 that perfectly supports DX 9.0 is particularly dazzling.
ATI Radeon 9700
Using the relatively conservative 0.15 micron process at that time, integrating 110 million transistors, it is the first transistor chip to break through 100 million. The core/memory frequency reaches 325MHz/620MHz, and it is also the first 256bit memory bandwidth to make the graphics card. The bandwidth is close to 20 GB/s, which is the highest level at that time. The "wild history" at that time was like this. As early as the release of the R200, the R300 had already completed the sample. ATI has been tempted to swallow and keep moving, the purpose is to paralyze NVIDIA. Sure enough, in the face of the sudden R300, NV is unprepared and can only accelerate the R&D process of NV30, and finally come up with the GeForce FX 5800, which has been repeatedly postponed.
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