ATI's Fury Turns Pro

Toronto-based ATI Technologies unveiled its latest video card this morning. Called the Rage Fury Pro, the board runs on a Rage 128 chipset overclocked to a modest 143MHz and features a host of video-editing utilities.

The increase in the board's clock speed is a much-needed improvement over the slower 103MHz Rage Fury cards that ATI debuted in January, and the addition of the video features like video out and in ports, flat panel monitor support, video capture and video-editing software gives the amateur cinematographer a wide variety of tools to dabble with.

In addition to these improvements, the Rage Fury Pro shares a lot of the same technological features of the older Rage Fury, including 32-bit color depth support, full hardware DVD acceleration, and 32MB of SDRAM. The Pro supports AGP 4X, which will be available as soon as Intel's 820 core logic chipset debuts this September, and, of course, it is backward compatible with the AGP 2X format.

Several variations of the Rage Fury Pro are scheduled to ship this fall, including a 16MB OEM model. Pricing will be available at a later date.