Our fellow-member The Inquirer published specifications and especially a photograph of a chart based on a R480 chip, which should be officially baptized Radeon X850. X850 which will be the new range of top-of-the-range chips of ATI. These chips will be engraved in 0.13 micron. They will use a slightly optimized architecture.

X850XT Platinum Edition590/1180 MHz (core/memory),and X850 XT with 520/1080 MHz. These two models will have 16 pixels pipelines, whereas X850 Pro given rhythm to 520/1080 MHz counts only 12 of them.


These chips 3d PCI-Express train will be launched about December 1, the availability of the charts is planned for the beginning of January 2005. As you can see it on the photograph, ATI will use this time a system of cooling plus strapping man, who will occupy two sites in your case.

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