THE STRETCH FROM late 2005 into early '06 has been a remarkably busy time in the world of PC graphics hardware. Most of it has been ATI's doing. Their CrossFire dual GPU technology was tardy, but it showed up to class just before the end of September. Shortly thereafter, ATI finally delivered its much-delayed Radeon X1800 GPU as part of a top-to-bottom lineup of new graphics chips, all among the first GPUs to be built on a 90nm fab process. Among other things, the Radeon X1800 XT put the company back on top in the high-end performance sweeps, however briefly. The welts had barely faded from the whooping NVIDIA laid on the Radeon X1800 XT with its GeForce 7800 GTX 512 when ATI countered with its new high-end GPU (right on schedule this time), the Radeon X1900.



Link: The Tech Report