Preview: ATI's All In Wonder 9700 PRO

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Until now, the biggest drawback of All In Wonder cards was their 3D performance, which was lower compared to the standard cards with the same chip. In the past ATI used slower, and therefore cheaper, memory chips on the AIWs. Coupled with the lower core clock speed, this led to degraded 3D performance. Those times are finally over - the All In Wonder 9700 now runs at the same memory and core speeds as the standard Radeon 9700 PRO.

Below, you can see how the All In Wonder 9700 PRO compares to its predecessors:

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Chip Name	ATI AIW RADEON 7500	ATI AIW RADEON 8500 DV	ATI AIW RADEON 8500	ATI AIW 9700 PRO
Core	RV200	R200	R200	R300
Manuf. Process	0.15 Micron	0.15 Micron	0.15 Micron	0.15 Micron
Chipclock	260 MHz	230 MHz	275 MHz	325 MHz
Memoryclock	360 MHz (DDR)	380 MHz (DDR)	550 MHz (DDR)	620 MHz (DDR)
Memory Type	SGRAM	SGRAM	SGRAM	BGA
Memory Bus	128Bit DDR	128Bit DDR	128Bit DDR	256Bit DDR
Memory Size	64 MB	64 MB	128 MB	128 MB
RAMDAC (S)	2x 400 MHz	2x 400 MHz	2x 400 MHz	2x 400 MHz
Bus interface	AGP 1x/2x/4x	AGP 1x/2x/4x	AGP 1x/2x/4x	AGP 1x/2x/4x/8x
T&L	2rd Generation	3rd Generation	3rd Generation	4th Generation
DirectX Generation	DX7	DX8	DX8	DX9
Pixel Shader	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Vertex Shader	No	Yes (2)	Yes (2)	Yes (4)
Truform	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Render Pipelines	2	4	4	8
Textures per Pipe	3	3	3	1
TV-Tuner	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Video In / Out	YesRage Theater	YesRage Theater	YesRage Theater	YesTheater 200
TV-Out DualView	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
IEEE 1394 Firewire	No	Yes	No	No
Remote Controll	Yes (RF)	Yes (RF)	Yes (RF)	Yes (RF)
Price	Official: $149	Official: $199	Official: $299	Less than $500

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