ATI will unveil Radeon X1950 Pro and X1650 XT graphics chips and add-in cards on 17 October, according to reports from Taiwanese moles and leaked documents intended for the company's customers.
The cards are expected to be the first to sport ATI's new internal CrossFire connector, which differs from Nvidia's SLI link by placing two, not one, proprietary connectors on the top of each add-in board.
The X1950 Pro - codenamed RV570 and fabbed at 80nm - contains 36 pixel shader engines in 12 parallel pipelines and eight vertex engines. The core is said to be clocked at 580MHz. It'll hook up to GDDR 3 video memory running at 1.4GHz.
The X1650 XT - aka RV560 - is also an 80nm part, the reports claim. This time there are eight pipelines feeding 24 pixel shaders. It will be clocked to 600MHz and, again, the memory will run at 1.4GHz, albeit over a 128-bit bus. The X1950 Pro apparently uses a 256-bit memory bus. ®
Originally posted by: x80064
So in other words, it's just an overclocked X1900GT ?
Originally posted by: aka1nas
Originally posted by: x80064
So in other words, it's just an overclocked X1900GT ?
I think because it's a respin it only physically has 12 pipes rather than 16 with 4 disabled. As it is on a smaller process it might use less power and maybe even OC easier than the X1900XT/XTX. What does the dual crossfire connectors on the card allow you to do? Is that for the 3-way crossfire with physics acceleration stuff?
67% of R580, not 67% smaller. It's still not a GF7.Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
It has a 67% smaller die compared to the R580. Looks sweet as this card gets a new cooler as well.
Originally posted by: Pete
67% of R580, not 67% smaller. It's still not a GF7.Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
It has a 67% smaller die compared to the R580. Looks sweet as this card gets a new cooler as well.
Still sweet, and with a X1900XT at $240, prices could be pretty great.
Originally posted by: Pete
67% of R580, not 67% smaller. It's still not a GF7.Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
It has a 67% smaller die compared to the R580. Looks sweet as this card gets a new cooler as well.
Still sweet, and with a X1900XT at $240, prices could be pretty great.
Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Originally posted by: Pete
67% of R580, not 67% smaller. It's still not a GF7.Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
It has a 67% smaller die compared to the R580. Looks sweet as this card gets a new cooler as well.
Still sweet, and with a X1900XT at $240, prices could be pretty great.
My bad. That was what i was suppose to say.
Im also thinking the R570 has much lesser transistor count, or its on 80nm compared to 90nm.