ATI's Revolutionary Radeon 9700 Pro
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A history on ATI's Radeon 9700 Pro. Check out more #GPUJune videos here:
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0:19 Intro
3:45 History
11:42 About the card
15:04 Its legacy
18:22 Outtro
Platform specs:
Pentium E5800 @ 3.75GHz
2GB OCZ Platinum Ed. PC3200 @ 400MHz
ASRock 775i65G (Intel 865G)
128GB SATA SSD
Windows XP Professional SP3
Drivers:
-Radeon 9700 Pro: Catalyst 10.2 (Legacy)
-Radeon 8500: Catalyst 5.5
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Fantastic video! The 9700 Pro is one of my favourite graphics cards and it was such an exciting time compared to what we get these days...
@C4nn15
3 жыл бұрын
Think about it, back in the day we would get great sound cards, great graphics cards and the leaps and bounds were actual leaps and bounds. Now it's like well you can play this game at 4k at 120FPS vs 60FPS.
@CommodoreFan64
3 жыл бұрын
@@C4nn15 You know when even decade + old computers with 8GB DDRII, an OC AMD Athlon II X4, a cheap SSD, and with a lowend GPU like an AMD R7 240 2GB can still run many modern titles at 720p - 1080p low settings getting 60fps, or close too it running a lightweight Linux Distro like Manjaro Mate then we have hit a peak of sorts in terms of tech IMHO! I truly don't get the excitement these days that I did back in the 80's - mid 00's seeing each leap forward in tech.
@miu-kb2ue
3 жыл бұрын
That was an exciting year indeed
@AliceC993
3 жыл бұрын
@@CommodoreFan64 My current system is from 2012 with only a GPU upgrade to a 1050 Ti, and I can _still_ play most games at decent settings, at 1080p. Granted, it's definitely time for an upgrade, but considering I've gotten _9 years_ out of this platform, it's certainly much different from how things used to be. I recently acquired a Pentium II-based IBM Aptiva, and a system like that would have been hopelessly obsolete by the time this card (Radeon 9700 Pro) would debut, despite its very high performance just five years prior.
@dyslectische
3 жыл бұрын
No the 9500 pro with a bios of 9700pro. That is the card . I had one with a aftermarket cooling like a blower. Thing overtune like shit.
As his wife I can verify that he did, in fact, bring the card on our vacation lol. It's so good to see all your hard work completed in such a fantastic way. This is your best video yet. 💙
I made the jump from a GeForce Ti4200 Golden Sample from Gainward to an ATi Radeon 9700 Pro when I built a brand new system based around the nForce 2 Ultra kitted with an Athlon XP 2500+ and 512MB of DDR1 Corsair CMX Platinum which allowed me to OC the CPU to 3200+ levels at a much lower price. The jump was incredible and I was playing all my current games at higher res on my 19" Trinitron monitor. I remember working for 3 months to save up the cash (fast food and being a teen meant minimum wage) after hearing the news of the pending release and bought the card a few weeks after release.
I had both a 9700 and a 9800 Pro they were fantastic graphics cards and ones I won't soon forget. I miss those times.
Just seeing Mr Rodney Reynolds back in a video again takes me back. Very nice and in-depth video look at the good'ol 9700 pro
I was fresh out of high school when this came out, this was the card I always wanted but could never afford back then. I believe every computer nerd has that one piece of hardware they always wanted to get but couldn't afford at the time. Mine was the 9700 Pro. Nearly 20 years later, I finally put a 9800 pro in a 2003-2004 era P4 rig. Thing shreds...
@406Steven
Жыл бұрын
I was just entering high school at this point and remember how the 9500 Pro was the overclocking champion, the 9700 NP (non-Pro) could be modded/overclocked to insane levels, and the 9800 Pro couldn't be beaten by NV even once they finally showed up to the party. I wish I hadn't thrown out the cards I had back then ("those slow old things haven't been relevant in years, why do I hoard this junk" mentality) but I have rebuilt my collection with a 9500 Pro, 9800 Pro, as well as X1950 XT and FX 5950 Ultra (always wanted one but they were too expensive). Fortunately I still have the same computer as I did then. I keep my 5600 Ultra in there to keep the power supply load easy (this is when PSUs had a max output of about what my 3080 pulls) with the same 60 GB WD hard drive though I have maxed the board out at 1 GB of RAM (up from 128MB) and it has Windows 7 because back then it was amazing how it could run on "only" 1GB of RAM. Back before Roku sticks this was my streaming machine once its duties as gaming machine were retired.
Very nice video! I remember, that I desperately wanted to get a 9700 Pro, but as a student, I just didn't have the money to buy it. But there was a solution! With some luck you could modify a 9500. Shorting two contacts with a drop of electric varnish you could enable all 8 pipelines and with some overclocking get it on the level of the 9700 Pro. This was what I did eventually and I had luck. I added a better cooler and even overclocked the card over the usual 9700 Pro frequencies. I used the card for a quite long time and still think, that it was one of the biggest steps in real time 3d graphics technology. Thanks for the memories!
@jigpu2630
2 жыл бұрын
Same fond memories of unlocking and overclocking the snot out of my 9500. While my memory clocks were never terribly impressive my core went to the moon!
@Druze_Tito
Жыл бұрын
thank God someone mentioned this. Good old days! P.S. - I never had the money to afford myself those Radeon cards. But I knew about all of them and all their capabilities and possibilities. Wonderful memories.
I wish AMD hadn't retired the ATI brand. I miss that red logo.
@BrassicGamer
3 жыл бұрын
To be fair to AMD, they hung onto it for another 4 years after the takeover. But yeah, I was sad when it just became AMD.
@mraaron1584
2 жыл бұрын
the Canadian ati office is still located in Markham ON of course with AMD signs now a days but at least the original Headquarters is still around
I remember the day i got my 9700 pro... the speed of that thing absolutely blew me away.
Oh man! The legendary 9700 pro, the card that sparked my collection addiction after I found it in a box 2 years ago. I enjoyed every minute of the video. Just Excellent in all regards 👍
@classic_jam
3 жыл бұрын
This card was also one of the first cards I added to my collection a few years ago. I technically had stuff before then but I didn't consider it a collection until then.
Good to see Radeon 9700 Pro taking vacations and enjoying retirement.
Yes the 9700 was truly a milestone in gpu history i remember reading magazines about it i was so baffled by its specs back then
Voodoo5 5500 required external power in 2000 in fact it need more then the 9700 and used a full Molex connector
@PixelPipes
3 жыл бұрын
You are right and I got this wrong.
I had a 4200ti, the 9700pro was a beast for sure. I wish I still had the spare cash to be into PC building again. They were the best days of my life.
"What would surprise everyone is the longevity" ATI FineWine *TM* technology
This was a remarkable product to be a part of working on - I spent many hours developing pre-silicon verification tests, and then later on driver optimizations, including for Doom, as well as the adaptive anti-aliasing technology. I felt incredibly fortunate to get the chance to work on it.
@PixelPipes
2 жыл бұрын
You helped create something truly influential!
My day was genuinely made brighter when I saw this pop up after a long day. Thanks!
This video was legendary. A perfect tribute to an awesome piece of hardware. I couldn't be happier to support this channel considering the kind and form of content it brings. On another note, this video will be a great reference for my own next week. If the big brother and the little brother out to battle next week had a middle sister, it would be the Radeon 9700 pro. Thanks for your work!
I get sentimental with this, what a greatly put video. The fact that you can still use this card on Windows 11 is just nuts. The official Vista 64bit drivers works when you install them through Device manager just fine. The die shrink (RV370) of this on PCIe (X600) runs even on my modern AM5 PC with CSM enabled, connected to my LG 4K OLED TV through DVItoHDMI adapter. Yes, it DOES RUN CRYSIS. Revolutionary chip indeed. It's such a nostalgic feeling to have this working on my main PC, playing the classic games I had on my first PC that I got on my 10th birthday.
I got at least 8 years out of mine. My lads had use of the last 3, sold on eBay eventually as a fully working card. Excellent product.
My first ATI card! Coming from the 3Dfx Voodoo 3, I could not fathom going Nvidia. My 9700 Pro has it's own place on my shelf next to my Voodoo cards.
I had the Geforce2 Ti when Battlefield 1942 came out. I got low fps and stuttering no matter how low the settings. Upgraded to the 9700 pro and wow. BF142 on med to high settings, zero fps drops or stuttering. 9700 pro is 1 of the best gpu's I owned.
Back in my old days, I started with Riva TNT2 64, and then moving up to GeForce MX 440, and finally made a huge jump to this 9700 Pro.
Was part of the verification team at ATI in Markham for the R300 (Khan). It was a BEAST, it stretched all our tools and processes trying to fit, but we got it done. Still remember some of the issues that were discovered. This video brought back alot of memories, thanks!
I like this video style, you are best teacher, good work!
Back in the days i couldn´t afford the Radeon 9700 so i waited for Radeon 9500. I bought a Gigabyte Maya II and it was quite good. The Omega Driver set the 9500 on Fire... it was awesome.
I had a 9500 that I soft modded to a 9700, close enough? 😁
I loved this video, and I loved my 9700 Pro when I bought it used in 2004. I do find it amusing that the interview clip with John Carmack had him talk about how fast the R300 could render real-time shadows, though. When Doom 3 was first released, the cards in the R300 family were under-performing until a programmer in the community realized that the driver calls for computing shadows were remarkably inefficient. He wrote a patch that replaced those instructions with more simple equivalent math, and performance increased by a VERY noticeable amount! It was so good that ATI integrated it into their next Catalyst driver revision, and it was mostly forgotten after that. I still have the file, even though it's not needed anymore unless one is using Catalyst drivers from before 4.9 or so.
Back in those days I had a 9500 Pro which was the 9700 Pro's slower but still quite capable brother. It was amazing to see what that card could do, especially compared to the Radeon 8500 & Radeon DDR cards I had owned before the 9500 Pro. I was crushed when my PC was damaged as part of my divorce in late 2005. I was able to salvage the rest of the machine but sadly the 9500 Pro never worked again.
This card was so special to me! The 9800 pro ati was the first high end card I ever bought!
I had the GeForce 4 Ti4200 when the 9700 Pro was out. I got the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb the year after. Monster!
ATi: your confidence is your weakness Nvidia: And the faith in your cards is yours And with directX 10 Ati went from original trilogy to Disney trilogy.
That GPU has done more travelling that I have during this Covid pandemic
Radeon 9800 XT is when things got really good. Also something really cool, ArtX designed the GPU on the Gamecube and since ATI bought them once the design was done the Gamecube GPU is 100 percent ArtX design. The Gamecube TEV was all them. Amazing.
Had a 9800Pro for a couple of years. Marvelous GPU. Bring my 2004 back...
The first PC upgrade I convinced my dad of was a Radeon 9600 SE - I had heard about the legendary 9700 Pro but was too young to know what a 64-bit memory bus meant and how cut down that card was compared to its bigger brother. Later I referred to the card as the 9600 Sucky Edition lol. Funny now looking back at that with the recent 6500XT 64-bit bus controversy!
These were such a great times for computer technology to evolve. In fact then we could really see revolution with almost every generation of hardware. Something like this can not happen today. Pity. My colleague had 9800Pro and it was a BLAST on our whole neighbourhood. Nothing could compete with that monster at that time.
I went to CompUSA(remember them?) and they didn't have any 9700 Pros in stock, so I headed over to Best Buy and they had ONE left. I brought it home to replace my 8500 and was blown away by the speed. It was so fast that it was CPU limited. When I replaced my CPU the next year my minimum FPS went up a ton. Eventually replaced it with a 6800 GT which was faster but not nearly as cool.
The cinematography in this episode is simply amazing , wonderful video! Also I learned the 9700 Pro Released on my birthday .
Excellent video. And I love that I got to see Rodney Reynolds recommend another Kickass product just a few minutes in. That earns a sub. Thanks dude.
I had the Radeon 9700 TX, a special version of the 9700 that was Dell OEM. That card was so awesome for it’s time.
I still run a ati aiw 9800 pro.. Love the card and all its features.. tuner still works with a digital to analog converter and a tv antenna .. used to to convert vcr tapes to dvd.. saved family videos.. play games.. ect. ect..
@gen_angry
3 жыл бұрын
Likewise, although I think the composite in has went on mine. The image is completely messed like those macrovision copy protection all the time. The rest of the card seems to work fine though, strange.
@rodhester2166
3 жыл бұрын
@@gen_angry that stinks.. It is heart breaking when they finally give out..
A historic Card, that shall always Stay in out Memory!
So this video's the reason all the 9700s are expensive right now! XD Great video, Nathan! I, too, could only ever dream of owning one of these beasts back in the day.
@classic_jam
3 жыл бұрын
More to do with failure rate and the other videos over the last 3-4 years. Mine died the day after watching this video :\
@TechAmbr
3 жыл бұрын
@@classic_jam Oh no! : (
This is a kickass product! Man it has been years since I've seen 3DGameMan.
@TheBig451
3 жыл бұрын
I was thinking that too! Gooood times man.
@CommodoreFan64
3 жыл бұрын
Same, and I hope he's doing well, he is a true OG in the video review space.
This was such a huge step in performance!
When Doom 3 alpha leaked (late 2002), the average graphics cards at the time could only run it as a slideshow at low-medium settings... this card could run it just fine at high quality.
I remember going from my GF4 Ti4600 to the 9700 Pro when it launched and being in awe at how much faster it was. Even more so as the drivers developed.
I didn't have a 9700 Pro but I did have a 9550 and it was amazing. It's price to performance ratio was superior.
Had a 9600xt from 2003 to 2006 and have nothing but good things to say about the card. Even when it was chugging out low frames at its end when i eventually upgraded to an x1650 pro... Love the old tech.
This is a great video! I personally have it's slightly-stronger sibling the 9800 Pro, and it was absolutely wild to play with a card that put NVIDIA *below* ATI, something that now-a-days is just a pipedream! I need to rebuild my Socket 754 machine and get that card back up and running ASAP.
I ended up buying one on Ebay... you guys were telling the truth!
I had a Radeon 9500 in my computer. Sadly, it couldn't be modded into 9500 Pro but it was still an amazing card.
@davidbolha
Жыл бұрын
I had/have a 9500 Pro & remember unlocking it with Kip Hardina's Warp11 BIOS... 🤔😊😄
@ibazulic
Жыл бұрын
@David Bolha i tried to unlock mine with modified ATI drivers. While it did work and I was able to get extra pipelines working, there were artifacts on screen. For instance, I'd have a mesh of equally spqced rectangles on the screen along with visible video distortion.
Hot damn, this is a fantastically produced video
A bit late to the party, but this vid had me looking over my small gpu collection...I pulled the 9700 out and admired the job I did putting heatsinks on everything, and the artic-cooling silencer that replaced the original hsf....also took a look at the x800 pro I'd flashed to XT (successfully btw), and that one has a big copper Zalman hsf on it....thanks for the memories.
Nice, I had the good fortune to live through this time as a PC enthusiast. I didn't get the 9700 Pro, instead I went for the 9700 and flashed the bios and turned it into a PRO
Oh yeah.. the 9700pro was the single most extended use video card I ever had. Used it for many years. I still have it in the box on the shelf too. Loved Pipe Dream! I still have that installed on my current computers. It even runs, and looks amazing 🤩, with my Nvidia 3d vision monitor and glasses setup.
Loved UT2003 with my Northwood P4 2500MHZ@2800MZH, 256MB and the 9700pro. I think I payed about 480 Euros back in 2002. Golden Times...
Never had a 9000s card but always looked at them with awe...these were the best days.. unlocking driver features with tools an if you was lucky enabling extra shader pipes like was it on the 9600 to 9700pros an the 6600 from Nvidia had versions that could be turned into 6800s... I looked at my locked shaders in my 6600gt in riva tuner an wishing I could unlock them...tho my 6600gt was as quick as a stock 6800 in most stuff due to the insane clocks it had...but still those extra 8 shaders an 4 vertex shaders would of been a treat...an the fact they was physically on my chip made me cry
LOVE the format of this video!!
Thanks again Nathan for another awesome video!
I had the ATI X9800Pro 256megs of ram with Quad pump DDR3. That card was outstanding.
Ahh... the times of top end gpus at $400 to $500 mid $200 to $250 and low end $100 to $150
Terrific video all through. The passion for the topic is a given but the composition and editing is simply top tier. Well done and a great watch!
Awesome video, miss this Era of tech!
Great video, was a blast to watch at work instead of working!
Remember when you could get a 9500 with a 256-bit PCB and unlock to a near 9700? If the unlocked shaders didn't fail you you felt like a badass.
I had the 9800 pro! To this day! My all time favorite card! Special card for a special time! Far cry!
Oooh, I had one of these, bought to play Far Cry. It had a giant Zalman passive heatsink on it. It cooked itself. I replaced it to a 8800GTS to play Crysis, and it cooked itself. After some years with midrange stuff, I got a GTX 970 to play DOOM 2016. Put giant superadvanced Arctic cooling on it so it does not cook. ... it cooked itself.
very nice intro and video! I remember that pipes ATI demo, I played it countless times :) Good work!
Ugh this video really reminds how special gpus can be. My history;Ti4200>9700pro>7800gtx>8800GTX>GTX580>290x>Vega 64. The 9700pro, 8800GTX and Vega 64 have far and away been my best cards. Wasn't lucky enough to dodge the mining boom this time, but Vega 64 is still a great card, and it's professional grade pcb underpinnings has made it a godsend to someone who works with 3 monitors without high idle vram cooking the room, even if it showing its age in the newest games. priorities of getting old. lol
Excellent video, thoroughly enjoyed watching this! :)
Aww man! Brings back fond memories! Water cooled Athlon xp 2500+ and volt modded 9700 pro on GPU and memory. I remember ripping off the voltage regulator on the back with the heat spreader in it 😢wanting to put a proper heatsink on it! I got a nice O.C from it until one day I come back to the pc in two colour mode, just black n white. CPU waterblock leaked onto my beloved Radeon!
So happy I have one of these in my collection, with the shim removed so it'll hopefully last.
@PixelPipes
3 жыл бұрын
Shim removal is a must, for sure
That videocard was perfect in that era the first DX9!! Great video thanks!!
Amazing video man! This card was easily one of my favorites. I remember using thermal adhesive on pennies and stacking them on the memory chips to use as heatsinks 😁
The audio on this, something changed. It's got a different vibrant ambiance. Also a very well done video !!
Always a fan of your videos and this one, in my opinion. is your best yet. True documentary level quality. Great work man.
@PixelPipes
3 жыл бұрын
High compliment! Thank you!
Stellar narration man!
@PixelPipes
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
This is my favorite GPU of all time. It's such a compact powerhouse. Oh dude you freaking nailed it again. I paused the video to type something about ArtX and you are already all over the scene. A+++
9700Pro - showed up in my dreams countless times back in the highschool days ;)
Modding a 9500 Non-Pro to a 9700 Pro is the biggest achievement in my life.
I had a 9500pro I got from a friend for free. I benched that against an Nvidia FX5900xt and while the 5900 won, it was not by much. I even had fun and installed the bios from a 9700 in that 9500pro just for the heck of it. When it ran it displayed 9700, fun times back then.
That was really an awesome video! I was a Nvidia user at that time because the Radeon cards were a pain to work with under Linux, so hearing all those details now is super interesting. Thanks so much!
I'm late to this party but well done sir! The choice of the animusic demo was brilliant. I loved that thing back in the day. I could not afford the 9700 pro or the 9700 but I did buy the 9500 and hard modded to 9700 status (unlocked 4 extra pipes!) and played all these demos you were running to check it out. I was ecstatic with the frames I was getting from an inexpensive 9500. That mod is worth a video too. Eventually drivers came out that soft modded it. The Omega drivers. I had forgotten this whole era in the long history of my PC hobby and that is just sad! This video brought that all back so accurately and lovingly. Somehow I missed GPU June when it ran but I'll check out the playlist. Liked and subbed!
Wow what a great video!
Amazing video. The best video card review i have ever seen so far. Lot of information from the technical and historical point of view. Lots of feelings and great camera shots. Thanks for 20 great minutes of this day. 👍🏻👍🏻
@PixelPipes
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much!
Damn you really blew it out of the water with this one! I'm not one to usually comment or particularly care about production but this video was very very well made, arguably the best one on the channel so far. So nostalgic to see 3DGameMan, I remembered him always being peeved about cases not having removable motherboard trays hahaha and the classic Kickass product ratings! Wonder what the hell happened to him, everything about him disappeared including his websites etc
The 2002 era 9700 Pro could play games "3 years after it launched". Meanwhile most people: were playing Crysis, Timeshift, Half-Life 2 EP2, STALKER, CoD4, Gears of War, Portal, Jade Empire, Halo 2, Resident Evil 4, in 2007 and 2008, The longevity of 9700 Pro was only recently eclipsed by the RX 470/480/570/580, GTX 1060 and GTX 980 Ti.
@PixelPipes
2 жыл бұрын
Yep nowadays it's expected
I don't think I've ever clicked a video so fast!
The performance benefit of the 9700 Pro was massive in comparison to the 8500LE that I had before it. My 9700 Pro was the AIW version. I had to get the AIW as the regular 9700 Pro was not in stock at the time. Computer stores in my area couldn't keep them in stock due to their popularity. They were also creaming FX series GPU's from nVidia. It was only when the 6800 GT came out that I replaced my 9700 Pro AIW with it, when VRAM was now becoming a focal point of future gaming.
Beast of a card back in 2000 I remember always trying to beat 3dmark scores on it over clocking it
That Intro! Memories :)
Had a 9600 Pro back in the day. That was a beast of a card for the price.
That's a lot of research! Well, I learned a lot in this video, because the 8500 was the last graphics card I bought brand new. Since then I've been quite a few generations behind, so I completely missed the significance of the 9700 at the time.
I never had a 9700 Pro, I went from the Geforce 3 and wanting a 9700 pro to having a 9800 pro given to me. Had to wait, but that was pretty cool. It was given to me because the guy who have it to me had damaged the DVI connector. I cleaned that up with tweezers and it worked perfectly.
I remember buying an FX5600 and selling it 3 days later, blowing my entire salary on a Radeon 9700 - worth it. My last R300 was also my first iGPU (Radeon 200Xpress). I never owned a dGPU again.
Didn't have a 9700 pro but did have a soft modded 9500 pro It was awesome
@davidbolha
Жыл бұрын
With Kip Hardina's Warp11 BIOS ? 🤔🙄
@MrGenesis98
Жыл бұрын
@@davidbolha I probably have all the info and data backed up on CD's on the other side of the country. Wouldn't be able to tell you exactly right now, it was a relatively simple process though. Notable 3dMark 2001 improvement at the time.
Bonus points for Pipe Dream intro
I had one of these…I wish I hadn’t thrown so much of my stuff away, but it was just outdated hardware back then.