GF4 and r300 in Feburary?

[UncleRonnie]

I read this off anand tech. Does anyone know anything else about these supposed video beasts? Kinda
disapointed cuz i was about to get a new vid card!


R300 and GF4?

 

[m1ke101]

wow...read this somewhere too, isn't it a bit soon though? o well, if they come out, that means price of 8500 and ti500 goes down too

 

[UncleRonnie]

that'd be quite sweet, m1ke101. Amen to that!

 

[AGodspeed]

Yeah right, I doubt ATI is that far ahead on their R300 development. Especially since they haven't even released R250 products yet, so how the hell is R300 coming in Feburary?

Nvidia on the other hand could easily release the GeF4 (NV25) core logic in Febuary since a heavy amount of R&D was completed during the XBox developement stages many months ago. Not to mention Nvidia has always been on target with product launches in the past, whereas the same certainly can't be said for ATI.

 

[Compellor]

It's PURE marketing hype...nothing more.

 

[rbV5]

<< how the hell is R300 coming in Feburary? >>



IIRC the R300 is being developed by the ARTX team(developed the Gamecube accelerator), not the ATI team that developed the Radeon Line. They've been working independant of the Radeon and FiregL teams so who knows? Those guys are supposed to be top notch...we'll see.

 

[EMAN]

I thought Radeon was developed by ART X too.

 

[rbV5]

OOPS

 

[BFG10K]

While February might be pushing it a bit I think we'll see these cards much earlier than we expect. Also nVIdia has been awarded a patent for a certain way of doing TBR (Gigapixel's technology I suspect) so we might see TBR in the GF4.

Things are looking very interesting indeed.

 

[The_Lurker]

<< I thought Radeon was developed by ART X too. >>



Nope, the Radeon was created by ATi, i think ArtX was acquired after they made a deal with Nintendo or something like that. Either way, they weren't part of ATI when the Radeon's were made. As for the R300 coming out in Feb, i certainly hope so, although ATi's never been too good at meeting deadlines, then again, it's ArtX now so who knows? Not too suprised w/ the GF4, although it doens't seem to be too big a dif from the GF3, (Like from the GeForce to the GeForce 2). WOnder what the R300 will have that'll make it stand out?

 

[Angus]

no way..ati is always stick on their one year cycle.....and even with one year cycle, they have a hard time to keep up their plan

 

[DKNG]

I agree with Angus. How can the R300 come out in february, didn't the R200 just come out a couple of months ago. Maybe the RV250. I'm not that sceptical about the GF4(NV25) since the GF3 (NV20) came out this past March.

 

[DClark]

Last I heard, the R300 was to be released in Spring 2002 (that's from March to June, I think). There isn't going to be an R250 (though I don't remember hearing that there was one in the first place).

They may "introduce" them, as stated in the article, but the first Radeon 8500 and GeForce3 Ti500 weren't in the public's hands until well after the introduction. I would be suprised if the new cards were released before a firm release date on Dx9 was given by Microsoft.


ArtX is supposedly designing the R300; they had nothing to do with designing the R200 or R100, but I think they may be responsible for the tweaks in the recent series of leaked Radeon drivers (from the 7189s to the current 9005s on Win9x/Me, and from around the 3271s to the current 6006s for Win2K/XP).

ATi announced the intention to buy ArtX on February 16th, 2000 and completed the aquisition on April 5th 2000. That means they've had almost 21 months working on the R300 so far (the R200 would have already been designed by ATi, I'd guess), if they started working on it at around the time ATi completed the purchase of the company. That's plenty of time to design a graphics core. As for what the R300 will have, another thread was posted somewhere showing the R300 with 8 pipelines of 4 textures each and running with a >300mhz clock speed. Whether that's true or not, we'll know in Spring.