Windows 2000 Driver Performance
ATI has always been criticized for their driver quality, and with the release of Windows 2000 now behind us we are still seeing some manufacturers skimping on their Windows 2000 driver support. NVIDIA has been wonderful thus far with their support under Windows 2000 as well as Linux, let's see how ATI stacks up.
Not good at all. The Windows 2000 driver is running at less than half the speed of its Windows 98 counterpart at 640 x 480. While the percentage drops a bit at 1024 x 768, the performance numbers under Windows 2000 are completely unacceptable. There is no reason that the card should be performing this poorly under Windows 2000.
Video Features & Playback
The Radeon SDR also features the same hardware motion compensation and iDCT engines that the other Radeon products do, for more information on their impacts on DVD performance as well as the Radeon’s video playback quality visit our October 2000 Video Card Roundup entitled: DVD Quality, Features & Performance.
Just like all of the other Radeon based boards except for the retail 64MB DDR and All-in-Wonder Radeon products, the Radeon SDR features no video input or output ports by default.
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