I just got my Radeon 9500 PRO, not Atlantis though . I never actually saw a benchmark betweeen the two, so I hope the Built by ATI one is fairly similar. I was wondering if there reallly was much performance differences between the 2? I hope I didnt get that much worse of a deal getting one built by ati. This also goes a lot for Nvidia cards, where there are many different manufacturers, the cards arent actually that dissimilar are they?:sigh:
A few weeks ago i bought a 9500 Pro and the dealer said it was a Saphire card. OK, i took it home. But something keeped me distrusting because it came in a simple white box (but including all the cables). I checked in ATI´s page, it was a FIC card! This card has the same built as the ATI ones and the same Infineon mem chips. I made some benchmarks and it makes 3560 3DMark03 points. And a friend with a "Built by ATI" and more powerfull system makes 3650-3700 points. So dont worry too much if your card is not "Built by ATI". Just read some reviews too see which Factory is better. You got a good card! Good luck and play hard!