ATI Boosts RADEON X800 Specifications HIDDEN 16 PIPELINE REVEALED

[Pluvious]

Only weeks before the release, ATI Technologies decided to boost
performance of its next-generation code-named R420 processor by
increasing the number of pixel pipelines inside the chip. Industry
source told X-bit labs that the story is not about redesign, but about
enabling “big guns” that were “hidden” inside the chip from the very
beginning.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20040408100025.html



Pluvious

 

[who be dat?]

This is good news. If true of course. I'm quite frankly scared to death
Nvidia will regain the performance lead, even if for a small time, in any
way being significant which a 16 Pipeline Nvidia card versus a 12 Pipeline
ATi card probably would've fell into that category. Nvidia seems to have
turned into a company willing to do questionable things (remember the
cheating in the drivers in benches and the vast claims of improvements per
driver release at the expense of image quality?) to get their customers
money rather than working hard for it. They need to be held in check by
competition which it appears ATi will provide. I look forward to rewarding
ATi for their hard work providing this is true. Don't forget, not long ago
everyone was saying ATi's latest/greatest was going to be 12 pipeline.

Now then, will ATi's card be PS 3.0? Hmm... Interesting times ahead.

Chris Smith

 

[R420]

Only weeks before the release, ATI Technologies decided to boost
performance of its next-generation code-named R420 processor by
increasing the number of pixel pipelines inside the chip. Industry
source told X-bit labs that the story is not about redesign, but about
enabling ?big guns? that were ?hidden? inside the chip from the very
beginning.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20040408100025.html



Pluvious

This is exellent news. ATI will be, roughly, on par with Nvidia, in
terms of raw fillrate per clock. next it will come down to shader
power, where I expect ATI to maintain its lead over Nvidia, dispite
NV40 having PS 3.0.

 

[Pluvious]

On 10 Apr 2004 10:34:32 -0700, (e-mail address removed) (R420) wrote:

||> Only weeks before the release, ATI Technologies decided to boost
||> performance of its next-generation code-named R420 processor by
||> increasing the number of pixel pipelines inside the chip. Industry
||> source told X-bit labs that the story is not about redesign, but about
||> enabling ?big guns? that were ?hidden? inside the chip from the very
||> beginning.
||>
||> http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20040408100025.html
||>
||>
||>
||> Pluvious
||
||
||This is exellent news. ATI will be, roughly, on par with Nvidia, in
||terms of raw fillrate per clock. next it will come down to shader
||power, where I expect ATI to maintain its lead over Nvidia, dispite
||NV40 having PS 3.0.


Good news indeed. However.. I did stumble opon this little bad news.

http://theinquirer.net/?article=15246

I hope my brand new Antec 420watt can handle the new card. I was
planning on ditching my 9700 PRO for the new R420 model.

Pluvious