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ATI's Radeon X1300 to get new 80 nanometre core |
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Written by Mavke
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Wednesday, 12 July 2006 |
ATI is on a delayed schedule with its 80 nanometre production. But it should soon have samples of its RV560 and RV570 chips with the RV535 and the slowest RV505 chips about to follow. The Radeon X1300 family will get a few new members, namely the RV516 and RV505 cores. The current Radeon X1300 generation is based on the 90 nanometre RV515 chip, while the new RV505's are 80 nanometre. As we said back in April, the RV516 is a replacement RV515 chip built in a UMC fab. The RV505 is manufactured by TSMC, with the same features as the RV515 and RV516 chips. The card supports Shader Model 3.0, 64-bit or 128-bit memory interface, Avivo and HyperMemory for up to 512MB of memory.
 ATI's Radeon X1300 to get new 80 nanometre core
ATI will introduce the newly branded Radeon X1300 CE with the RV505 CE ASIC chip. The card will be clocked at 350MHz core but will be passively cooled. The RV505 chip will be able to work at up to 600MHz but will come clocked at slower speeds too. This will give an extra additional value to the low-end Radeon X1300 series, and different versions will be released depending on the clock speed. As it is 80 nanometre it is about seventeen percent smaller than the current 90 nanometre RV516 core. This means more chips per wafer and if the yields are good, more profit too. Production is expected in the middle of September.
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