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R480/R430 taped out and running |
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Written by Mavke
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Friday, 05 November 2004 |
Charlie might have eaten his words yesterday but he pointed to one rather interesting link. You can see that the SIG list has many unannounced products.
 R480/R430 taped out and running
Let's start with ATI. The SIG pre-announced and let us all know that ATI already has R480 and R430 cards up and running. They tested them, so they sure have to exist.
R480 is ATI's December PCIe update while R430 will be a cheaper core that will replace some of the slower X800 cards. We still have to investigate the R430 but we see it as an NV41 competitor.
As expected, thode two new PCIe only boys will have their Fire GL version codenamed R480 GL and R430 GL. We spotted one new card here RV410 GL that is nothing else than X700 based Fire GL card.
On the mobile side ATI...has M22 and M26 and we don't know much about these chipset. We know that both of them are not so far from shipping. It's all a matter of design wins and I am sure that Dell will have its fingers in it. Traditionally Dell was always first to scream about ATI's new mobile chips. I don't think it will change this time.
ATI got the stamp of approval for RS400 and RS480 chipsets as well, so it seems that it has the Full Monty here. For the record, RS400 is a Pentium 4 chipset with X300 graphic integrated, while RS480 is an Athlon integrated chipset with a similar X300 based core.
Let's just wait for the first announcements - the first of the chipsets, the RS480 will be born next week.
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