To the delight of gamers everywhere, ATI Technologies Inc. today launched its RADEON™ X800 Visual Processing Unit (VPU) which will deliver the industry’s most awesome gaming experience possible on a PC. With the introduction of the RADEON X800, ATI continues its two year reign as the industry leader in high-end graphics for gaming and ushers in a new era, High Definition Gaming. Worldwide system integrators, original equipment manufacturers and board partners are excited to deliver RADEON X800 powered systems and boards beginning immediately.
Gamers using computers powered by RADEON X800 will enjoy a higher performance, immersive gaming experience that looks better than ever before. This High Definition Gaming experience is the PC equivalent to watching a sporting event on an HDTV. This is made possible by the highly scalable and efficient architecture of the RADEON X800 that uses 16 parallel pixel pipes and 6 vertex pipes to process more than 8 billion pixels and almost 800 million vertices per second.
“The RADEON X800 builds on the great success of the RADEON 9700 and RADEON 9800, the most sought-after high-end visual processors in the world," said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President Marketing, General Manager, Desktop, ATI Technologies Inc. “With the RADEON X800, the design team has accomplished something that no one thought was possible. Not only have they developed the highest-performing and most efficient graphics architecture in the world, they have done so while maintaining high levels of stability, reliability and manufacturability.”
ATI has used the most advanced technologies available to design and manufacture its new RADEON X800 graphics chips. Using the successful low k .13 micron semiconductor process from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., ATI created a scalable, highly parallel and powerful visual processor that is twice as fast as today’s performance leader, the RADEON™ 9800 XT. The advanced fabrication process and leading-edge GDDR3 memory have also enabled ATI and its board partners to deliver high-performance, user-friendly graphics card solutions which will work in customer’s existing PCs without requiring radical and costly power supply or cooling upgrades.
View: HardOCP's Radeon X800 Review (Thanks jonkun)
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News source: ATi Press Release
Gamers using computers powered by RADEON X800 will enjoy a higher performance, immersive gaming experience that looks better than ever before. This High Definition Gaming experience is the PC equivalent to watching a sporting event on an HDTV. This is made possible by the highly scalable and efficient architecture of the RADEON X800 that uses 16 parallel pixel pipes and 6 vertex pipes to process more than 8 billion pixels and almost 800 million vertices per second.
“The RADEON X800 builds on the great success of the RADEON 9700 and RADEON 9800, the most sought-after high-end visual processors in the world," said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President Marketing, General Manager, Desktop, ATI Technologies Inc. “With the RADEON X800, the design team has accomplished something that no one thought was possible. Not only have they developed the highest-performing and most efficient graphics architecture in the world, they have done so while maintaining high levels of stability, reliability and manufacturability.”
ATI has used the most advanced technologies available to design and manufacture its new RADEON X800 graphics chips. Using the successful low k .13 micron semiconductor process from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., ATI created a scalable, highly parallel and powerful visual processor that is twice as fast as today’s performance leader, the RADEON™ 9800 XT. The advanced fabrication process and leading-edge GDDR3 memory have also enabled ATI and its board partners to deliver high-performance, user-friendly graphics card solutions which will work in customer’s existing PCs without requiring radical and costly power supply or cooling upgrades.
View: HardOCP's Radeon X800 Review (Thanks jonkun) View: Full Article News source: ATi Press Release
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"Pretty much tied for world's fastest" I could deal with
Though it looks like Nvidia's 6800 Ultra Extreme is taking the cake for the fastest card ever as of today.
Fastest card = fastest performance without loss of IQ per USER NEEDS
at least imho
In current games, they perform about the same (though the 6800 won by a significant margin in every OpenGL test).
The 6800 Ultra Extreme is what has matched/outperformed X800 XT in most benchmarks, check again.
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=163813&st=75&#entry2059980
Flame wars to follow below:
You can't be "pretty much tied". If its faster by .0000001 its still faster.
The X800 Pro and the 6800 Ultra are pretty much tied. They're both $500ish cards. The ATI card won some tests, the Nvidia card won others.
Therefore, there's no clear winner. They're pretty much tied.
The 6800 Ultra Extreme wins basically every benchmark, and therefore is the fastest (though supply and price for those cards is unknown at this time).
Nvidia has lead in COD & Halo wheras ATi leads in all other games. You call that a tie ?
And also, why is there no mention of the cards Nvidia announced today? (The 6800 Ultra Extreme - the other fastest card ever. And the 6800 GT?)
Maybe If i knew how many pixels, polygons, some statistical description of what I just saw on this ATI card.
I'm not sure about you, but even though a jet engine is faster, I'd rather have a 450 CC engine in my car....
Alister
We were able to overclock the X800XT to 540MHz core and 570MHz memory. That is only a 20MHz core speed increase and a 10MHz memory speed increase which shows the X800XT is very close to maxing out its current frequency limitations.
At these overclocked settings looping 3dmark at a high resolution resulted in the card and memory chips becoming very hot, in fact it was too hot to touch for more than a few seconds. So if you are going to be doing any serious overclocking with these video cards make sure you have extremely good case air flow.
[H]ardOCP
The NV40 on the other hand runs cooler then a 5950U and it can run with a one slot cooler. ATI should win simply on the fact that it can run with a smaller PSU and needs only one Molex connector. With that above quote in mind I would think that many SFF owners would be out of luck too since many SFF have heat related issues. Also it is becoming more and more evident that these cards are CPU limited meaning that you'd have to have a uber highend system (AMD FX, P4 EE) just to get the best performance out of them.
Fanboys....
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The Nvidia card? I know it isn't vaporware,but maybe
problems.
not to be confused with
but the first one is true!
Also as the drivers for the cards are of course in need of tweaking, I would wait till both camps release updated drivers, and then do more comparisons. At the end the price also dictates what consumers may buy.
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good idea
The fact that you need TWO power connectors for the Nvidia card is a major factor right there. I am not ever going to buy a card that needs that much power, nor a card that will block one of my PCI slots. I just won't do it, especially when it has zero performance gains over ATI's card. They're about even on performance, but as far as design goes, ATI again pummels Nvidia by making a smaller, cooler card.
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This is one hell of a card…
This one piece of hardware on my list for this year…
Of course ATI's website is going to paint a picture of their card being the best. They can say anything they want to on their website. You need to read reviews from 3rd parties.
A true "hardcore gamer" wouldn't just go out and blindly buy a new video card just because it was prettied up on the company's website. A hardcore gamer would take all possibilities into consideration, then make an educated decision. Your behavior is more along the lines of a "consumer whore"
For example Nvidia 6800 @ £600 = 3D mark score = 15000
Radeon X800@ £500 = 3D mark score = 14500
So you can see that it's all about the money and performance. Out of an 9800 Pro and 9800XT, I'll go for 9800 Pro anyday cus there's very little performance difference for the huge price difference which can almost be double.
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