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An Asian web-site OC.com.tw has published pictures from ATi Technology Days 2004 event hosted by ATI Technologies, including a photo of a graphics card that is believed to be the highly anticipated RADEON X800.

Official dates and specs of ATI’s upcoming code-named R420 products are still to be decided, but according to the latest unofficial information, the RADEON X800 PRO will be launched on the 4th or the 5th of May, while the RADEON X800 for AGP 8x and RADEON X880XT for PCI Express x16 are scheduled for June, not May introduction, if the information is correct.

If the information is correct, the more or less final revision of ATI RADEON X800 graphics cards looks as shown. The card has a massive cooler for the visual processing unit, but does not equip its GDDR3 memory with heat-spreaders. Large coolers on VPUs typically imply on high core-clock speeds, while the absence of memory cooling may indicate relatively low memory frequency.

ATI Technologies reportedly plans to roll-out various versions of the code-named R420 VPU branded as RADEON X800 PRO, RADEON X800 XT, RADEON X880 XT and RADEON X800 SE. The solutions will enable different number of rendering pipelines: 12, 16, 16, 8 and will function at different clock-speeds that are still to be decided. Higher-end graphics cards, such as RADEON X800PRO, X800XT and X880XT will have 256 or 512MB of GDDR3 memory functioning at clock-speed in the range of 1000MHz. The performance-mainstream offering RADEON X800 SE will use memory with 128-bit bus that is clocked at lower clock-speed compared to high-end products.

Officials for ATI Technologies typically do not comment on unreleased products. There are more pictures from the even over here.

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http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/features/default.asp?pagetypeid=2 &articleid=29172&subsectionid=1636

nice xbox 2 demo running on that LCD screen ..lol x800 in new xbox2 ??
[Posted by: notchbak  | Date: 04/22/04 10:39:42 PM]

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It is so strange that this board only has one power connector.
[Posted by: Demon_Hunter  | Date: 04/23/04 09:33:20 AM]

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I don't find it odd. I fully expected it. ATI (or should I say TSMC) has been working with low-k insulator (on the interconnect layers), so the ATI boards run much cooler(which means lower power consumption) than their nVidia counterparts. So very simple.
[Posted by: geekboy  | Date: 04/23/04 10:28:28 AM]

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That big heatsink isn't really so big - it looks about 9800XT sized. Heat production is a function of transistor count and voltage as well as frequency, too, so the core frequency might not be as high as you think - the large R420 core has a lot of transistors on it. I expect the core frequency to be pretty good, though.

Also, GDDR3 operates at a lower voltage than DDR or GDDR2, so it's probably pretty darn fast memory that simply doesn't get too hot.

It's good to see ATI is ahead of the game when it comes to the number of power connectors required - it looks as though I could put one of those in my present machine quite easily, even if it needs a power rail to itself. NV40's requirements or *two* dedicated power rails are just plain silly by comparison.
[Posted by: Chromatix  | Date: 04/25/04 12:34:13 AM]

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Well, I certainly think the card will do well. Whether it beats NVidia's offerings or not remains to be seen; however the power requirements are certainly much more tolerable. I believe there was some speculation about that photo, and that it was actually inside a shuttle SFF system.

That is certainly good news for lanning! :)
[Posted by: tam  | Date: 04/25/04 06:39:00 AM]

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it realy freaken awsome and it has realy cool detial to the card
[Posted by: cody  | Date: 04/25/04 08:44:05 PM]

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Its good if its only one powerconnector.. i think nvidia made a mistake making the card this power hungry.. but maybe it will work fine with a 400W psu, hard to say but i dont think i have cables free for that card, and i guess an adapter to get more molex cables isnt that good.

It will be interessting to see if this card is better than the Nvidia one, but why did ATi leave out shaders v3.0 ??

Anyway the retail cards will pherhaps get some better looking graphic on the actual card, this lizard thing just looks silly.
[Posted by: Silver  | Date: 04/26/04 03:56:23 AM]

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If it was a pre-production card then why does it have decoration on it?
[Posted by: jonbob  | Date: 04/26/04 04:00:16 AM]

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http://www.allstarshop.com/shop/product.asp?dept%5Fid=124&a mp;pid=8988&sid=8U39GSR5HC119HXBLCVPNKB199WC3KF4


Not sure if they really have for sale!?
[Posted by: Lou  | Date: 05/01/04 06:36:28 PM]

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You fucking nerds. Go masturbate to porn instead of computers.
[Posted by: Hsav  | Date: 05/06/04 05:31:09 PM]

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