ATi har løftet litt på sløret til R520 - AVIVO

[MistaPi]

http://www.beyond3d.com/previews/ati/avivo/

[HilRam]

One recent discussion that has cropped up is that of a limitation with current Crossfire configurations with a maximum resolution of 1600x1200 at 60Hz, while many concentrated on the output of the Crossfire master card, this limitation actually stems from the capabilities of the source of image from the slave card - with ATI employing the DVI output of the slave card to produce the the digital output of the portion of the image(s) produced from the slave the to provide to the master card the rendering resolution and refresh rates are limited by the DVI output of the current Radeons. X800 and X850 only integrated a single link TMDS transmitter, hence a display limitation of 1600x1200 @ 60Hz; with all of the next generation graphics chips guaranteed to support two dual link TMDS transmitters if the next generation Crossfire uses the same master/slave with compositor system then just using one of the TMDS transmitters should mean the maximum resolution of the slave image could go up to 2048x1536 @ 85Hz and ATI only need include a dual link DVI on the master card and these higher resolutions could be achieved with Crossfire.

 

Oioioi! Dette lover godt! R520 Crossfire fikk plutselig en real ansikstløftning! (Begrensningen vil jo fortsatt gjelde for X800 og X850-serien.)

[MistaPi]

ATI Technologies, Inc. (TSX:ATY - News; NASDAQ:ATYT - News) and TSMC (TAIEX:2330)(NYSE:TSM - News) have announced that TSMC is in volume production of multiple 90 nanometer (nm) products for ATI, including the Radeon® X1800, Radeon® X1600 and Radeon® X1300 series chips, and has shipped large quantities of production wafers to ATI.

 

"The ATI products produced with TSMC's 90nm process show a tremendous clock speed improvement and power reduction versus earlier generation technologies," said Jason Chen, Vice President of Corporate Development for TSMC. "As a result, TSMC is currently processing thousands of 300mm wafers for ATI, with many more already delivered. At this aggressive pace, ATI has already become one of our major 90nm customers."

 

"TSMC has done an excellent job of delivering on yields and speeds," said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President of ATI's PC Business Unit. "As ever, they've proven themselves an excellent manufacturing partner as we ramp up some of the most advanced technology consumers have ever seen."

 

TSMC's state-of-the-art 90nm technology frees ATI from the limitations of less-advanced processes and enables a whole new level of performance and functionality for PC graphics. For example, the new ATI products have clock speeds around 50 per cent higher than products manufactured on older processes.

 

ATI expects the latest cards to begin arriving on store shelves by the end of September.

 

- http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050920/205369.html?.v=1

Endret 20. september 2005 av MistaPi

[ExcaliBuR]

Er ikke det denne "delen" som skal ta over for Rage TheatreII/Theater 550 PRO?

[vipewan]

Nja, er mere at dette er en integrert del av R520 og resten av RV5XX serien, og trolig også ATI's neste chipset(s).

 

 

Meget interresant lesing, blir spennende å se screenshots og sammenligning av R520 med R420/480 og G70/NV45 og se om det har merkbar endring.

[MistaPi]

Club3D X1300 Pro;

 

http://www.club-3d.com/productshow_vga.php...=PCX&p=&filter=

 

Ble litt skuffet over at den ikke støtter høyere enn 6xMSAA.

[ExcaliBuR]

Har endelig SM3.0 da =). Gleder meg til å se på ytelsen til disse kortene.

De sier ikke noe om selve MHz på kortene da (Ja, veit at det i ikke har noe direkte å si på ytelsen, men kan kanskje ha en "pekepin" mot W)

[MistaPi]

- High Dimension Floating-Point Textures

 

Heh.. det er ikke lenger High Definition som gjelder, men High Dimension. :!:

[ExcaliBuR]

Hehe, den n'te dimensjons FP! Jaja...