Quick testing feelings using a P3-500 Katmai, 512mb PC100 CL2, i440BX, Windows ME; I can say I am impressed by some things. The Radeon 7000 based on the RV100 I was expecting it to be much faster than it seems to be clocked at 148Mhz and double that for ram but 64bit, got 1629 at 3DMark2000 and 780 at 3DMark2001. It seems a good card for an HTPC cause support IDCT just like the 9250 I had before and having already the great DVI connector for my old TV. But for performances, maybe the P3-500 is the limit here even if with the 9250 maybe for the Nature test support I remember much higher fps even in 3Dmark2000 frame rates were much higher with the same cpu.
For the Rage Pro Turbo seen as Xpert@Work 98, I was expecting better.. 3DMark2000 shows quite lot of strange rendering in default mode, not artifacts but like it's not supporting some features and the results with same setup were 1397 with 3DMark99 (cpu 7463) and 635 with 3DMark2000. I like the card PCB layout anyway but I was expecting better quality.
What really surprised me was, you will not beleive it, the Rage IIC 8MB AGP unknown brand latest drivers: I never really tested deeply this card but I always thought about it like a S3 Virge DX experience, basically mostly 2D and some specific old games. Instead it surprised me since the desktop with really good 2D vga signal and general speed but mostly supporting 3Dmark99 which resulted in 436 points, low but I wasn't even expecting it to run and not that bad rendering I've to say; and to be even more surprised I've launched both Half Life and it runs playable @ 400x300 with a general good and unexpected texture rendering and filtering become unplayable @ 640x480 but I wasn't expecting it to support anything at first. And to end up even more impressed, I launched Thief 2 game, that's really not a light game, and it worked playable at 400x300 and with all the rendering effects. Also it may support some DVD decoding I suppose motion compensation (?) in WinDVD it is recognized as ATi and DVD runs great with 10 to 20% cpu usage.
Still have to test the Number 9. The Rage Mobility-P works with the Rage Pro drivers but I don't think they are the right one cause no games seems to run and it show a black screen and generally seems unstable.