Various resources report that the ATI Radeon X800 XT will be launched
at 31 May. This graphic card uses the R420 GPU from ATI, more details
available every day. Most of the time sites speculated over the clock
speed. Thanks to [H]ard|OCP we dont have to speculate about that any
more, they got their hands on some detailed documents with almost all
the details of the R420. The clock speed will be maximum 600MHz for
the core and the memory will run on 1,2GHz. The R420 will use between
160 and 180 million transistors with a 130nm, Low-K process.

There will be three variants, one SE, one Pro and one XT version. We
have soon a AGP 8x and a PCI Express 16x card to communicate with the
CPU and memory. The first R423 that will be released is the XT
version. The Pro will be introduced at 26 April, almost two weeks
after the NV40 from NVIDIA. One month later, 31 May, will ATI release
the X800 XT. In June should be the SE version available and the Radeon
X880 XT PCI Express 16x will be released at 14 June. View the
specifications below:



http://www.onlynewz.net/modules.php?...rticle&sid=543

Pluvious

"Pluvious" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> There will be three variants, one SE, one Pro and one XT version. We
> have soon a AGP 8x and a PCI Express 16x card to communicate with the
> CPU and memory. The first R423 that will be released is the XT
> version. The Pro will be introduced at 26 April, almost two weeks
> after the NV40 from NVIDIA. One month later, 31 May, will ATI release
> the X800 XT. In June should be the SE version available and the Radeon
> X880 XT PCI Express 16x will be released at 14 June. View the
> specifications below:
>


It'll be interesting to see how many people decide to "cave in" and buy
the Pro rather than wait an extra month and get the XT! Not that it
bothers me, I'm hanging onto my current video card for quite a while
yet.