ATI

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ATI Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: ATYT) is a graphics card manufacturer. They produce Radeon and Fire graphics cards.

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Products for Mac (Both CTO and Retail)

  • ATI Radeon X1600, used in the Rev A and B Macbook Pro and Intel iMac.
  • ATI Radeon X850 XT
  • ATI Radeon X800 XT
  • ATI Radeon X600, used in the Rev C iMac G5.
  • ATI Radeon 9800 XT
  • ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
  • ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
  • ATI Radeon 9650
  • ATI Radeon 9600 XT
  • ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
  • ATI Radeon 9600
  • ATI Radeon 9200
  • ATI Radeon 9000 Pro
  • ATI Radeon 8500
  • ATI Radeon 7500
  • ATI Radeon
  • ATI Rage 128
  • ATI Rage/Rage Pro

Usage in Current Macs

With the switching of MacBook Pro to NVIDIA graphics card in June of 2007, only the iMac line and a BTO version of the Mac Pro use ATI graphics cards. All iMac models use either the Radeon HD 2400 XT (for the 20in, with 128MB VRAM) or the Radeon HD 2600 PRO (for the 24in, with 256MB VRAM) graphics card. The Mac Pro uses the 512MB version of the X1900XT graphics card.

Competitors

ATI's main competitor is NVIDIA, who produce GeForce and Quadro cards.

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