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Today ATI launched its RADEON™ X800, RADEON™ X600 and RADEON™ X300 Visual Processing Units (VPUs). The first PCI Express graphics chips in the industry. The new X800 card will have new features such as a six pin power header, and dual DVI out (on certain models of the X800). Check out page two of [H]ard|OCP preview to get the low down on the ATI Mobility Radeon X600 which is PCI Express!

Today ATI has released its much anticipated PCI Express line of video cards built around their latest graphics technology. The graphics cards announced today are the PCI Express version of the Radeon X800, the Radeon X600 and the Radeon X300. ATi also has the mobile market covered today with the announcement of the ATi Axiom.

Today’s preview of ATi’s latest graphics card technology is simply a sneak peek, as we have no graphics cards in-house at this time for hands on testing. We’ll take you through the ATi presentation and lay out what information we do have at this point. So this is very much a paper launch. Usually this is something we are not fond of, but considering there are not any released PCI-Express motherboards as of yet, I guess we can let this slide.

View: ATI Press Release
News source: [H]ard|OCP

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