ATI RADEON X800 Gets its Face

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An Asian web-site OC.com.tw has published pictures from ATi Technology Days 2004 event hosted by ATI Technologies, including a photo of a graphics card that is believed to be the highly anticipated RADEON X800.

Official dates and specs of ATI’s upcoming code-named R420 products are still to be decided, but according to the latest unofficial information, the RADEON X800 PRO will be launched on the 4th or the 5th of May, while the RADEON X800 for AGP 8x and RADEON X880XT for PCI Express x16 are scheduled for June, not May introduction, if the information is correct. If the information is correct, the more or less final revision of ATI RADEON X800 graphics cards looks as shown. The card has a massive cooler for the visual processing unit, but does not equip its GDDR3 memory with heat-spreaders. Large coolers on VPUs typically imply on high core-clock speeds, while the absence of memory cooling may indicate relatively low memory frequency.

ATI Technologies reportedly plans to roll-out various versions of the code-named R420 VPU branded as RADEON X800 PRO, RADEON X800 XT, RADEON X880 XT and RADEON X800 SE. The solutions will enable different number of rendering pipelines: 12, 16, 16, 8 and will function at different clock-speeds that are still to be decided.

News source: Xbit labs

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Screenshot: ATi Radeon x800

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#1 DJ Prem on 23 Apr 2004 - 06:47

sweeeeeet

#2 Mystical112 on 23 Apr 2004 - 07:10

dyammm me want

(2 replies) #3 HappyCar on 23 Apr 2004 - 08:17

its time

almost
whens it due to be released?

#3.1 DjmUK on 23 Apr 2004 - 10:34

I'm guessing you didn't actually read it:

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The RADEON X800 PRO will be launched on the 4th or the 5th of May, while the RADEON X800 for AGP 8x and RADEON X880XT for PCI Express x16 are scheduled for June.

Unless you meant, when is it available for consumers (and for those in the UK) - which is most likely around the same date (just a few days after).

#3.2 HappyCar on 23 Apr 2004 - 11:15

Ya second one, launching as we all know can be bs sometimes

a few days after? so they've been manufacturing??? SWEET!
almost time to get me a sweet ass rig

#4 Gunbuster on 23 Apr 2004 - 08:41

Looks like its in a Shuttle! woot! and only one power connector.
Considering how popular smaller systems are these days it should do well. Having said that there is no sign of which of the X800 series it is. It might be their midrange 9600 series replacement, if so it would be unfair to compare it to the pics of the Geforce 6 6800 Ultra which is clearly at Nvidia's top end. Personally a fight between equals would be much better than the lop sided one we have had so far.

#5 mrk on 23 Apr 2004 - 09:30

one power connector seems to be the non XT model, maybe the pro

(2 replies) #6 Jasco on 23 Apr 2004 - 10:40

It dont support pixelshader 3.0... a damn shame

#6.1 carpediem on 23 Apr 2004 - 11:14

Why?

Visually PS3 can't do anything more than 2.0. It can however do some stuff that we'll maybe see in a year or so. By then R500 will be out.

Read this: http://www.gamers-depot.com/interviews/dx9b/001.htm

#6.2 HappyCar on 23 Apr 2004 - 11:15

The R500 out in a year or so

lets hope so

#7 carpediem on 23 Apr 2004 - 11:17

ATI hinted that we'll see PS3.0 hardware from them this year, in the leaked powerpoint they had on their site for a few minutes (that's all it took for it to leak)

(1 reply) #8 musicmaster on 23 Apr 2004 - 11:44

its not the X800.... its got to be the prototype for the RADEON 9800X look at my post (like the 15th, with the pic of the real 9800xt) theyre almost identical... cant be

look here for proo

http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?s=4dda7722ed5fb63ee55804c9535aaf86&showtopic=160190&st=0&#entry2010378

#8.1 CrimandEvil on 23 Apr 2004 - 19:08

LOL Very funny thread, got to love those fanboys.

#9 Marduk on 23 Apr 2004 - 13:10

W00t soon! Soon the prices will drop on the old cards.

#10 cynicalsomething on 23 Apr 2004 - 15:27

Nice!!!!

(2 replies) #11 CrimandEvil on 23 Apr 2004 - 19:02

POS.
It looks no different then the 9800XTs, I see nothing to get excited about.

#11.1 xluqe on 23 Apr 2004 - 19:57

Didn't know you play games by looking at your video card.

#11.2 CrimandEvil on 23 Apr 2004 - 20:10

Didn't know you didn't have a window in your Shuttle case.

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