The production of R600 XTX cards, Radeon X2800 XTX or Radeon X2900 XTX, whatever ATI decides to call them, is set to begin in the first week of March. One of the codenames for this card is Dragonshead 2 and it is a 9.5-inch card with the new vapour chamber cooler. The board went throughout many revisions and the last one so far was the power and mechanical advisory in early February. The A13 board samples are scheduled for the last week of February while the Rev90 release of the board is scheduled for the fourth week of February. The R600 XTX card production is set to start in first week of March. Add in Board partners will get the cards between second and third week of March. - The Inquirer

ATI's R600 XTX GDDR4 Scheduled for End of March

The volume customer shipments are expected by the middle of third week in March. And at last target on shelf date is the 28th of March 2007 and that's when the NDA's expire. It seems the original 12-inch cards are OEM only and have slightly different schedule of delivery. So it looks like our previous announcement was right all along. We said the R600 will be shipped in Q1 even if the last day of Q1 2007 counts, at least in a court of law. And since we all have been waiting for such a long time already, another month on top won't really make much of a difference.