ATI announced the Radeon 9700 Pro board, featuring the Radeon 9700 Pro processor introduced last month. The Radeon 9700 Pro features eight parallel rendering pipelines, DirectX 9 support, AGP 8X support, and a fully programmable floating-point architecture. The board will feature 128MB of DDR memory, dual-monitor support with independent resolutions and refresh rates, and will be priced at $399.
ATI said it will start shipping the Radeon 9700 Pro board on August 19.