ATI 520

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ATI’s R520 architecture, the new king of the hill?

 

"Well ATI sure kept us waiting, but it will finally be introduced this month, the R520 architecture, the successor to the X800 family of graphics cards and a contender for the 3D graphics throne. But why wait for that introduction when you can have a sneak peek today? Normally we would’ve adhered to ATI’s NDA and published results the moment it expired. However this time around ATI decided to just not bother with us as they made it very clear that we did not make the cut, as we have written some articles about CrossFire, R520 and ATI’s financial situation that were apparently not appreciated. Hence we’ve not been briefed by ATI, nor did we sign an NDA, or have been invited to the launch event, so basically they decided to cut us off.

 

Unfortunately for ATI we have other sources to get detailed information from,..."

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ATI’s Radeon X1000 series, what to expect?

 

"Next week we’ll see the introduction of ATI’s R520 architecture in the form of a whole new top-to-bottom generation of graphics cards which will be dubbed the X1000 series. The X1000 series starts off with the top-of-the-line Radeon X1800 XT and has the low-end X1300 closing the ranks. ATI has put all their engineering effort towards a new graphics accelerator architecture based on the 90-nm process. Key features include SM3.0 support, a 512-bit ring bus memory controller and support for their recently introduced Avivo platform. In these next few paragraphs we’ll be giving you an exclusive first look at what ATI will be introducing next week."

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ATI R520: Radeon X1800

 

ATI's Late Response to G70 - Radeon X1800, X1600 and X1300

 

Seems to be mixed reviews.