Toronto, Canada, August 5, 1999- ATI Technologies Inc. (TSE:ATY,NASDAQ:ATYT) today announced the 32MB RAGE FURY PRO(tm), representing a new era for video cards. It offers the best overall performance for all of today's popular games and applications. The RAGE FURY PRO offers performance up to 50 per cent faster in 3D Winbench performance and up to 40 per cent faster frame rates in Quake III at 1,024 x 768 in 32-bit than the previous RAGE FURY. The RAGE FURY PRO enables 3D gaming, video applications, video capture, video out and optional flat panel support.

The RAGE FURY PRO answers the growing demand by PC enthusiasts and gamers for a video add-in card that handles the most complex games with leading performance but does much more, including video-in. The RAGE FURY PRO allows the capture and editing of home videos, videoconferencing and the ability to set up web cams. Additional benefits of the video-in port include hooking up a video game console to the PC monitor and therefore freeing up the family TV. Video-in will become a standard feature with next generation PCs.

"There is a new class of graphics card buyer emerging, a buyer who wants more than acceleration that handles the biggest and best games," said Alan McCann, director of board marketing, ATI. "The RAGE FURY PRO is ideal for this market, offering best balance in price, performance and features in the market today, delivering strong 3D performance and a multitude of features."

The RAGE FURY PRO is the perfect upgrade for end users looking to increase the power and features of their older systems. For system builders the RAGE FURY PRO is the ideal accelerator for everything from mainstream systems to performance PCs. With its multitude of features and performance the RAGE FURY PRO allows system builders to cost-effectively differentiate their systems from their competitors.

The RAGE FURY PRO's 32MB of memory can handle even the most texture-laden games and its 32-bit true color capability is ideal for performance gaming and high end 3D and video applications. Through optimizations, the RAGE FURY PRO ensures that 32-bit color acceleration is achieved with minimal performance degradation, providing true color visual quality with a performance level equal to that of a card that supports only 16-bit color.

Ready for the next generation of AGP 4X systems, the RAGE FURY PRO provides full AGP 4X support, permitting the full benefit of the new AGP 4X specification. This further enhances the top of the line performance of the RAGE FURY PRO for 3D games. Due to ATI's innovative design, the new graphics accelerators will be backward compatible to support AGP 2X.

The RAGE FURY PRO offers hardware DVD. With the industry's only integrated iDCT and Motion Compensation, DVD decode is accomplished with an absolute minimum of CPU usage. Also, 4-tap video scalers enable DVD playback at near perfect visual quality. RAGE FURY PRO is the ideal solution for running interactive DVD applications and watching DVD movies. New features of the RAGE FURY PRO include support for flat panel monitors with integrated TMDS; an eight million triangle/sec set up engine, for dramatically improved performance; anisotropic filtering, for improved image quality such as text blocks at "Star Wars" angles; a 300MHZ DAC for higher display resolutions; and supports Microsoft's Direct X texture compression allowing for faster, more detailed gameplay.

3D game play will be enhanced through the acceleration of OpenGL, as well as DirectX 6 and full support for the upcoming DirectX 7. The result is full acceleration and top speeds for intense DX and OpenGL games.

Price and availability

The RAGE FURY PRO will be available in Q4 and offered at a competitive mainstream price. Multiple models of the RAGE FURY PRO will be offered for the OEM and system integrator market. Certain models will include support for flat panel monitors or support for 16 MB of memory.

Corporate Profile

ATI Technologies Inc., the world's largest supplier of 3D graphics and multimedia technology, designs, manufactures and markets innovative and award-winning multimedia solutions and graphics components for the personal computer, set-top box and consumer electronics appliance markets. An ISO 9002 company, ATI is the world's leading supplier of video and 2D/3D graphics accelerators to OEM and retail customers. Founded in l985, ATI employs more than 1,600 people at headquarters in Thornhill, Ontario, and in offices in the United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Barbados, Malaysia, Japan and Hong Kong. ATI is a public company whose shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

For other ATI news releases visit our web site at http://www.atitech.com. Copyright © ATI Technologies Inc., 1999. All company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers. Features, pricing, availability and specifications are subject to change without notice.

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