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ATI's R580+ core becomes Radeon X1950 XTX card |
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Written by Mavke
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Saturday, 01 July 2006 |
The Inquirer reports that ATI decided what to call its upcoming R580+ chip. The company has dubbed it the Radeon X1950 XTX, or XT, depending on the variation. ATI didn't have many more numbers left and it wanted to keep the XTX and XT sub brands alive. And it figured that a Radeon X1990 would be too complicated. This is rather evolution than a revolution, just slightly faster and that's it. The faster one, the Radeon X1950 XTX is set to replace the current fastest ATI Radeon X1900 XTX while the new Radeon X1950 XT aims to replace the Radeon X1900 XT cards. It is still to be seen what the performance impact will be of the die shrink of the R580+ core.
 ATI's R580+ core becomes Radeon X1950 XTX card
We still don't know about the clock speeds but we know that the new cards comes with GDDR4 memory. They are set to be released at some point in September/October timeframe. This seems quite late to introduce the R580+ chip and the cards based upon this core. With that in mind, would that mean that ATI would like to somehow gain some extra time for their R600 development? If so, that would certainly play into the cards of NVIDIA and their upcoming G80 chip. All depends of course on how well the R580+ will be in terms of performance and the clock speeds that can be reached.
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