R420?

[jaltiere]

Anyone have any word on when ATI's new card will be benchmarked? I thought the target date was 4/26.....has that changed? I'm anxious to see how the benchmarks stack up to the 6800 Ultra from NVIDIA.

 

[LTC8K6]

It is supposedly always was May 4/5ish, with the 4/26 date being an incorrect rumor.

 

[jaltiere]

oh, ok. thanks.

 

[GTaudiophile]

May 4...one week from today.

 

[XBoxLPU]

May 4th /5th for R420

May 30th for 6800 Ultra/July 4th for full 6800 series

 

[GTaudiophile]

Rumor has it that the X800 Pro will be on store shelves the day of release (May 4).

 

[XBoxLPU]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
Rumor has it that the X800 Pro will be on store shelves the day of release (May 4).

I have heard that as well

 

[KristopherKubicki]

LTC8K6: April 26 is when the cards ship. May 4 is when the retail and NDA clear.

Kristopher

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: XBoxLPU
May 4th /5th for R420

May 30th for 6800 Ultra/July 4th for full 6800 series

MSI 6800 5/7/04

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
LTC8K6: April 26 is when the cards ship. May 4 is when the retail and NDA clear.

Kristopher

Wow and wow. They are not even going to let us preview it. Bastids. It better be good.

 

[Corporate Thug]

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
LTC8K6: April 26 is when the cards ship. May 4 is when the retail and NDA clear.

Kristopher

so we will see reviews posted midnight at some sites or is there a particular time the NDA lifts?

 

[KristopherKubicki]

you will most likely see reviews before the cards are officially no longer under embargo. ATI cant put everyone under NDA All the rest of the reviews hit May 4.

Kristopher

 

[Corporate Thug]

thanx for clearing that up Kristopher

 

[jrphoenix]

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
LTC8K6: April 26 is when the cards ship. May 4 is when the retail and NDA clear.

Kristopher

I'll take that May 4th actual retail NDA date over the April 13th paper launch any day

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
you will most likely see reviews before the cards are officially no longer under embargo. ATI cant put everyone under NDA All the rest of the reviews hit May 4.

Kristopher

This is very good news. I guess ATi told you guys to do what you want. I also figure to expect to see reviews around May 1st? *evil grin*

As Johnney 5 would said, need more input.

 

[GTaudiophile]

Should we be excited, Kris?

 

[JBT]

im glad ATI isn't doing a paper launch. I don't mind a week or so but much more than that is just agervating

 

[apoppin]

Geforce 6800 Pro on the way?

WE SPOTTED A LINK at a very famous Italian web page about a card that Nvidia didn't want to talk about at least not so far. Hardware Upgrade wrote here here that there will be more Nvidia cards on the Geforce 6800 marchitecture then Nvidia is actually telling any of us.
They already made the statement that the 6800 Ultra card clocked at 400MHz core and 1100MHz memory will cost $499 and that the 6800 non Ultra will be clocked at 350MHz core and with 700MHz memory and these cards use DDR1.

The third card that Nvidia hasn't spoken about is the 6800 PRO - very unusual choice of name if that is the final one. This card should fit in between the Ultra and non Ultra, and be clocked at 350MHz for the core and 1000MHz DDR 3 for the memory.

The Italians suspect that this card will end up with 12 pipelines and we suspect that it will be around $399.

This card should directly compete with the R420, soon to be officially named the Radeon X800PRO.

A few things that we know about ATI's X800PRO

HERE IS A SUMMARY of things we know about forthcoming ATI card. The card hidden under the R420 codename will be introduced on 4th of May but ATI swears blind that it won't have any launch party for it.
The R420PRO slower version will materialise a few weeks before the faster R420XT, X800XT.

The R420PRO should be clocked at a 475MHz core and 900MHz memory and will feature 12 pipelines. The memory it uses is GDDR3 in this version of the card.

The cards will be red and will be physically almost the same as Radeon 9800XT as theoretically we are talking about a chip very similar to R300 shrink from 0.15µ to 0.13µ with some more pipelines and algorithms.

The card will consume much less power then the Geforce 6800 Ultra and will have only one power connector. It will work in the Shuttle XPC and that is something that the ATI PR manager has confirmed. It will also fit into XPC as it's a one slot beast.

Cards won't have pixel shader 3.0 support as they're based on similar marchitecture to R300 core and will stick to PS 2.0 at the time being. 128 bit precision will also be missing as ATI chip can support 24 bit per colour - 96 bit altogether.

There's also the R420 features special 3Dc compression that we mentioned here


We'll tell you more about XT soon but it might end up faster that we were all expecting.