An immensely powerful card, tempered by flaky drivers.

Can’t handle gaming, and beaten by cheaper media cards too.

AMD/ATI and its partners made quite a splash with the recent release of the 5 series GPUs, and is creating a lot of excitement about what future iterations of the cards will be able to do

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A capable card – decent performance without a high price.

The ATI HD 4800s hit a sweet-spot of performance and price. If you're after high-end performance at a few hundred dollars less than the 4870, then this is your card

This card is the same card as the Bravura Evil Master II, but without the retail extras thrown in. The card itself is a fairly plain-looking affair - a simple green PCB (printed circuit board) with a small cooling fan and heatsink over the GPU, and an array of RAM modules absent of the large RAM heatsinks now commonplace on the NVIDIA models.

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It has been a long time coming, but finally there is some serious competition to the mantle assumed by the behemoth that is NVIDIA. The Radeon 8500 is the latest graphics chipset from ATI, which itself is a graphics giant, though does not possess nearly the same public profile in the consumer 3D market. Unlike previous ATI cards that featured exclusively on ATIs own branding and PCB, the Radeon 8500 and 7500 are open to other board manufacturers, presumably to take a bigger bite out of NVIDIAs lucrative market share.

A cheap card, with the bonus of reasonable gaming ability.

ATI Radeon HD 2600 and 2400 cards unveiled.

Not the perfect value card it once was, but still worth a look.

There was once a time when 3dfx ruled the 3D accelerator market, but...

Not particulary quick, but a resonably priced media card.

Something’s wrong with DirectX 10 gaming when even top end cards are struggling with the latest games.

Although ATIs Radeon 7500 does not feature the new Charisma Engine II, with technology such as Truform, Smartshader and Hyper Z II, it is still a very competent graphics card targeted at the mid-range 3D graphics market.

Nvidia’s card is fast, but ATI’s is still faster.

Still holding its own at this price, but note the HD 4830.

The fastest single-GPU card we've seen, but it can't shake ATI in the price war.

With NVIDIA's new graphics chip still a couple of months away from reaching retail stores, ATI's RADEON 9700 is still the undoubted king when it comes to performance: if you want the fastest card available, then you can't go past the 9700.