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Speculation mounts on ATI X800 scores |
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Written by Phyro
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Monday, 15 November 2004 |
Rumours are jumping like fleas over the specifications of
the speedbump coming in December for ATI's X800 series cards. The most probable numbers come from a forum posting over at HardOCP. With the release date at
December 1st, the cards will be branded with the X850 name and will come in XT Platnium, XT and Pro configurations.
 Speculation mounts on ATI X800 scores
Presently, the X800 XT PE comes in at a core speed of 520MHz and a memory clock of 1120MHz DDR. Numbers suggest that the X850 XT PE will come in at 540MHz and 1180MHz: hardly a substantial speedbump, but enough of a prod to enable it to come a little closer to the performance of nVidia in Doom 3, and probably give it the edge in Half-Life 2. It will be a 16-pipeline card, as the X800 XT PE is. The X850 XT and Pro both share 520/1080MHz speeds, but the Pro part has only
12 pipelines.
We expect these cards to be available only on PCI Express. We have no idea what availability will be like: we can only hope that there will be enough cards to satisfy demand. Both nVidia and ATI are telling us that their shortage of high end cards is not a shortage, per se, but more an indication that demand for this generation of cards is huge - from both gamers and system builders. All new
cards in the Ultra/XT PE class that the companies are making are going on back-orders.
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