ATI RADEON X800 Gets its Face

[Oblivion]

First RADEON "R420" X800 Pictures Sighted

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. Higher-end graphics cards, such as RADEON X800PRO, X800XT and X880XT will have 256 or 512MB of GDDR3 memory functioning at clock-speed in the range of 1000MHz. The performance-mainstream offering RADEON X800 SE will use memory with 128-bit bus that is clocked at lower clock-speed compared to high-end products.

Officials for ATI Technologies typically do not comment on unreleased products.

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[insurektion]

wow looks nce

[DigitalN.]

X800XT and X880XT will have 256 or 512MB of GDDR3 memory functioning at clock-speed in the range of 1000MHz.

HOLY MOTHER OF SWEET GOD!!

[NTUsEr Veteran]

.. whats with the xbox controllers?

[giga Veteran]

Oooh..aaaaaah

[AcdShdw]

.. whats with the xbox controllers?

thats what im wondering

[notchbak]

xbox controllers got me wondering too.. but the image on the dell LCD in that pic is of a tech demo ive seen before.

its xbox 2 demo! see here. http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/features/defau...bsectionid=1636

[AcdShdw]

dude i so want that demor for the pc, i mean god id love to crack up a car like that lol

[Danrarbc]

Those are the XNA demos to be more specific, Microsoft never presented them as Xbox 2 demos.

(mainly because the video cards those demos are running on are slower than what will be in Xbox2 so they can't do a real time demo yet)

[CrimsonBetrayal]

You can purchase an adapter to hook your XBox controller to your PC. Or your PS2 controller. I have seen these, and if the XBox has such a wonderfully designed controller than maybe they just stuck with them. Just a possibility.

[Gergith]

you can mod them pretty basically, did it just recently.. all you need is a usb cord, and straight colour to colour connecting

[OrangeSoul]

so from this, is this faster or is 6800 faster

[Premgenius]

Those are many cards, I want to know which one is better, and I'm looking for AGP 8x :D

[HappyCar]

Those are many cards, I want to know which one is better, and I'm looking for AGP 8x :D

PCI Express for me thanks ;)

I guess I'm in for a wait then... :pinch:

[gate1975mlm]

The ATI Radeon X800 Pro will also have 256MB!

[Oblivion]

That's A Lot Of Memory To Have

[Nexus-]

no were on that one site did i see a picture of the card :( i wanted to see it :(

[Neo003]

here's u go

[Nexus-]

thanks niel19_us

[Circaflex]

not sure if that is real, it was posted on the overclockers forums and it only has one molex connecter, when everyone has been saying it will have 2

[secretforce]

Cant wait to see the benchmark on this baby!

[ANova]

not sure if that is real, it was posted on the overclockers forums and it only has one molex connecter, when everyone has been saying it will have 2

Who's been saying it will have two?

[Amarok]

(mainly because the video cards those demos are running on are slower than what will be in Xbox2 so they can't do a real time demo yet)

More info please.

[russellc]

can't wait for this card to come out :D

off topic: the picture that they put of the building on the first page of that site is a 5 min drive from where i live :woot:

here it is by the way :p

[Rob2687]

off topic: the picture that they put of the building on the first page of that site is a 5 min drive from where i live :woot:

me too! :)

:shifty: