BEFORE ATI briefs the press tomorrow under non disclosure agreement, and in Munich, we'd like to share all we know about the R480, Radeon X850 series of cards.
This is what these cards will look like and there will be three. As we said before, it's a dual slot cooling thing as the card is still 130 nanometres, but with better optimised aarchitecture.
The X850 generation of cards comes from optimised R423 silicon powered with additional power management features. Don’t forget ATI is using new cooler and thermal throttling marchitecture. See this below.
The fastest of them all, the Radeon X850XT Platinum edition is clocked to not that an impressive 540MHz core and 590/1180MHz GDDR 3 memory. The card has two DVI slots for two TFTs.
The second in the X850 hall of fame, the Radeon X850 XT, is clocked to 520MHz core and 540, 1080MHz memory and just like the X850XT PE has sixteen pipelines.
The third solution is called the Radeon X850 PRO and it's clocked to 520MHz core too, and 540, 1080MHz memory but will come with twelve pipelines.
It will launch these cards on the first of December early in the morning but expects to have those cards on the market in early January 2005.
ATI will claim the X850 will have much better availability than the disastrously not available X800 XT PE AGP card. Let's hope that it is right and bear in mind that the cards are PCIe only.
