RAGE FURY™ MAXX

Reviews

www.sharkyextreme.com
"It seems that the MAXX is clearly being positioned as a card that will rain performance benefits down on its buyers in the games and titles of today, like Unreal Tournament, Quake3: Arena and others, as well as titles that appear over the next three to six months that take advantage of DX7's Texture Compression routines"
November 1999

www.gamersdepot.com
"ATI will then have the ammunition it needs to take the Rage Fury Maxx from a world-class graphics contender, to a world-class graphics dominator, the ATI Rage Fury Maxx is the fastest 32bit rendering card around"
November 1999

www.firingsquad.com
"We have a player. The ATI Rage Fury MAXX does very well at high resolutions, but you definitely need a fast processor to get all the performance out of this card..."
November 1999

www.themeter.com
"In our testing, we found the MAXX to be fast, particularly under Direct3D. It boasted the best 3D WinBench 99 score we've seen on the Pentium III-550 platform"
November 1999

www.sharkyextreme.com
"Its no surprise that ATI has some of the best video acceleration available and the proof is in the pudding. With the mid-range Rage Fury Pro taking first and the high-end Rage Fury MAXX taking a close second, it's apparent that for the best in DVD playback, ATI is the way to go."
February 2000

www.hothardware.com
"The first thing that comes to mind is how "bad" (as in "cool" and "mean") this board looks. It has dual Rage Fury Pro GL chipsets, dual active heat sinks and dual 32MB texture memory for each Rage Fury Pro GL chip. The design of the board is clean, elegant and efficient. In the bullet list above you'll notice the 500 Megapixel Fill Rate. This puts it slightly ahead of the NVidia GeForce which comes in at 480".

"The Rage Fury MAXX has THE best DVD output I have seen to date, hands down".
February 2000

www.active-hardware.com
"Even if you do nothing more than read this introduction, one can't help but be left with the impression that you're not dealing with a run-of-the-mill graphics card..."

"Suddenly, in an environment loaded with heavy textures and driven by Direct 3D, we see the ATI Rage Fury MAXX to take the lead..."

"We really can see here that the ATI Rage Fury MAXX is taking a much better advantage of DirectX 7 under high resolution modes in the 32-bit color mode under D3D"

"Apparently, the Rage Fury MAXX D3D drivers are really very well optimized for the 32-bit color mode when using high resolutions."

"Against all odds, ATI is betting on the fact that as time passes by, games will be using more heavier textures and will be relying more on DirectX 7 new functionalities as well as Direct 3D new features. As these new technologies, high graphic resolutions of 1024 X 768 and above, as well as 32-bit color mode, are requiring more graphic processing power from the graphic card and it is precisely where the Rage Fury MAXX is doing good."
April 2000

The Toronto Star
"Electronic Games (Computer-based):
Most promising technology - ATI's Radeon chip
Computer Hardware: Best video card (gaming):
Honourable mention: ATI Rage Fury Maxx
Best video card (all-purpose):
Honourable mention: ATI All-in-Wonder 128"
May 2000