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ATI gets set to unleash upcoming RV535 chip |
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Written by Mavke
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Tuesday, 11 April 2006 |
The RV530 is how ATI codenamed its Radeon X1600 generation of Radeon X1K series. The graphics chip firm recently dropped the price of this mainstream card to $149 for the Radeon X1600 XT and only $109 for the Radeon X1600 PRO. Even with such a low prices for the cards, ATI is still making the money from these cards as it has the great yields with these chips. And to help pile the pressure on rival NVIDIA, ATI decided it would not hurt to shrink the chips to 80 nanometre and make the die a little bit cooler and roughly nineteen percent smaller than the previous one. That is the key difference between the RV530 and the upcoming RV535 chip.
 ATI gets set to unleash upcoming RV535 chip
The RV535 will again feature twelve shader processors and probably four pixel pipes. it will support CrossFire, Avivo and HDMI interface. The chip is naturally PCI Express but it could be bridged to AGP just as beforce on the Radeon X1600 series if necessary. ATI scheduled the RV535 chip for June production while the sample chips should be out in May already. The card is set to take the mainstream market place and to replace both Radeon X1600 and Radeon X1300 generation in this market segment. We expect to see a lot of those cards at Computex in June.
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