Most of ATI's features are usless.
btw, they cheated themself on top of the benchmarks.
They released 'slightly modified' drivers for all Quake III benchmarks (read: fps tests) made by magazines and websites. Radeon 8500 scored slightly faster than the Geforce 3 cards. That's because with the modified drivers used by ATI it dramaticly decreased image quality to get the extra fps boost. That's the only reason they scored faster than the Geforce 3.
Also, Doom 3 is one of the many next generation games that will be on top of Geforce 3 and nothing else.
And your pointing to ATI's website? Huh?
Radeon 8500 has horrible drivers as well. And a Geforce 2 Ti is better than the Radeon 7500. To quote William O'Neal from Computer Gaming world Magazine:
"The only reason we'd recommend buying the Radeon 7500 over the Geforce 2 Ti is to help the Canadian economy. Then again, who really cares about the canadian economy anyway, eh?"
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