Did anyone see this ATI 8500XP based on the RV250 article - Roadmap

[NicColt]

over at Digitime.com

"This year, CP Technology will work side by side with ATI in launching new products, company executive vice-president Larry Yeo said. The card maker has already finished developing products based on ATI?s latest RV250 chips, scheduled to be introduced in March. Yeo noted that performance of the RV250 is estimated to be 1.5 times better than that of the Radeon 8500. ATI plans to roll out a new core RV300 chip in the second quarter and a RV350 chip by year-end. The roadmap shows that ATI?s product portfolio has become more and more complete."

 

[Mingon]

the extreme overclocking article over at x-bit labs showed that the radeon 8500 doesnt scale well with gpu speeds its mostly bandwidth limited.

 

[Hawk]

Yeah but his quote shows that ATI's is trying to match Nvidia's 2 cards (every 6 months) a year strategy.

 

[AA0]

Thats the same with all cards, bandwidth is always the primary concern.

 

[Killrose]

I don't think any of the current GPU's scale well at all. I wish someone would do an article with about an 800MHz PC133 system. I don't think it's information Nvidia or Ati would like us to see.

 

[Mingon]

when I say gpu scaling I mean the graphics card core i.e the rv250 supposedly has a higher core speed which is a bit wasted imoh