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Is there a AIW 9000 or 9500 coming out?

At current ATI's website has no mention of it...I know what you are thinking they had a low end AIW 7500 besides the 8500 maybe they will have a 9000 pro AIW...It makes sense and could come down the line, but before the 7500 AIW was announced at same time as 8500DV so it could be a sign it wont be happening....

Also the 9000pro version would not be all that faster then the 8500 AIW 128mb version and would only have a few refined features and therefore may not play the marketing they want...As anandtech said in his review the 8500 was already the king and ATI really did not have to improve on it as no competitro was even trying...So therefor I don't see a whole bunch of versions or waste of product line coming from ATI....


I would get the 8500DV if the tv tuner is important casue the aiw 8500 come with 128mb of DDR but has no tuner...faster gaming performance out of the AIW version as the DV version is about another 10percent lower clocked then LE version of the 8500 at the core and even slower on the ram...most are 230/195 versus 250/250 of Le's and 275/275 of the retails...
 
yeah the extra hundred bucks wouldnt justify me getting the 128mb version. If there was a 9500 coming out for like $299 i would pick it up in a second. i figured a 9000 would be pointless but they are actually making them. AIW
 
Interesting that article list Oct 1,2002, yet I checked ATI's website and ther is no listing on it....

The thing is it would almost be identical to the 8500dv in performance as the 9000 pro is slower then the 8500 retail.....

I wouldn't mind the 9000pro to the fact it would have the revised analog tv tuner and dx9.0 and gp 8x support...
 
9000 is not dx9.0. dont let the name confuse u. its a dx8.1 part. only the 9500 and 9700 are dx 9. and agp 8x has no benefits at this point in time
 
Ohhh...I though all of the rv300 ati chips were dx9.0 compliant....

I only mentioned agp 8x as having a bit of future potential....
 
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