ATI's Radeon 9700 Takes Performance Lead
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 20 July 2002 - 15:57 · 8 comments & 127 views
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ATI is feeling its oats right about now. Landing one of the most prestigious endorsements a graphics company--the blessing of 3D guru John Carmack on its upcoming 3D GPU--is a first for ATI in several ways. Not only did they get the endorsement, but ATI got this endorsement over nVidia's GeForce Ti 4600. Given that ATI has sometimes been seen as "that other graphics company" in the shadow of nVidia, this has to be considered a pretty major coup.
if the Doom3 showcase of R300 at this year's e3 is any indicator, we've got quite a showdown in store when nVidia's NV30 arrives this fall. R300 has been given the brave, bold and daring commercial name of Radeon 9700 (Why are code names always better than product names?), and arriving with it is ATI's value-focused DX8 GPU, which has been code-named RV250 and now goes by the handle of Radeon 9000. ATI, like 3DLabs, prefers VPU, but ATI has it standing for visual (unlike 3DLabs' virtual) processing unit, for its core chip, instead of the more generic GPU moniker favored by nVidia.
Here's what's new
- Support for ICS format (Image Cytometry Standard) (PlugIn)
- Support for CDR/CMX format (Corel Draw Format) (Preview only)
- Improved MPG thumbnail support
- MPG/AVI frames can be extracted from the Options menu
- Option to control keeping of JPG EXIF/IPTC/Comment data (Save options->JPG)
- Option to save files with original date/time (Save and Batch dialog)
- Option to edit extensions for browsing (Properties->Extensions dialog)
- Option to import palettes (PaintShopPro format, menu: Image->Palette)
- New option for batch rename: Overwrite existing files
- Added RAW saving (Formats PlugIn)
- New option in "Properties->Misc. 2": Send short file name to external editor
- Improved "Edit->Add Text" feature
- Change DPI option moved to Image->Info dialog
- New command line option: /filepattern="pattern"; read specific files only
Example: i_view32.exe c:images /thumbs /filepattern="*.jpg" => Go to folder "c:images" and show JPG thumbnails only
Example: i_view32.exe c:images /thumbs /filepattern="123*.jpg" => Go to folder "c:images" and show JPG names "123*" as thumbnails
- New command line option: /gray
Example: i_view32 c:test.jpg /gray => Open 'c:test.jpg' and convert to grayscale
- New command line option: /rotate_r
Example: i_view32 c:test.jpg /rotate_r => Open 'c:test.jpg' and rotate to the right
- New command line option: /rotate_l
Example: i_view32 c:test.jpg /rotate_l => Open 'c:test.jpg' and rotate to the left
- New command line option: /swap_bw; Swap black and white color in the image
Example: i_view32.exe c:test.bmp /swap_bw
- These PlugIns are changed/added, please install the newest versions: EXIF, IPTC, Formats, CRW, ECW, MP3 http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.html
- Some minor bugs/features fixed/added (EXIF, Batch)