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Multifunction card, powered by Radeon 9700 core, shoots high for video performance, editing.
ATI is following the release of its cutting-edge Radeon graphics boards with an All-In-Wonder version that also provides video capture and editing capabilities in a high-performance package. The All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro, unveiled this week, is scheduled to ship in mid-November at a suggested retail price of $499.
"It offers the same clock speeds and performance as the Radeon 9700 Pro," says Blair Birmingham, ATI's group product manager for multimedia products. "We've been able to build this All-In-Wonder on that firm base."
That base includes full hardware support for DirectX 9 (although no games yet take advantage of DirectX 9), 325-MHz core clock speed, and 128MB of DDR memory, part of the Radeon 9700 family of graphics cards introduced in July. Plus, the card offers support for 8X AGP, which is backward compatible.
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