We spoke with numerous people on Friday and Saturday, and it turns out that the only cards that might be available for some key partners are Radeon X1800XL cards
zer0 disse:Eu acho que são os scores reais do r520, de uma x1800xl e não de uma xt.
Um dos rumores mais insistentes, foi de a xl ser equivalente a 7800gtx, com a xt a ser mais rapida.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26243
GRAPHICS CHIP firm ATI published an interesting press release yesterday, which was not received in the usual way.
Instead of spinners spinning the inbox, the announcement was reported to us by an ATI shareholder, who frequently visits the Investor Relations part of the site.
The release was actually an announcement that ATI Technologies and TSMC have entered volume production of "multiple 90 nanometre (nm) products... including the Radeon® X1800, Radeon® X1600 and Radeon® X1300 series chips".
Judging by the content, ATI actually plans to have most if not all products available on the last day of September.
Now, if the RV515/530 are in volume production only now, it is hard to imagine that ATI should have couple of hundreds of thousands of chips available at launch. Or has TSMC surpassed itself? µ
ATI'S MULTIMEDIA team did great homework with its Rc5xx series. We were expecting something interesting from ATI in terms of multimedia, but we didn’t expect that ATI will have dual link transmitters on the whole product range. Just a few months back, you were supposed to pay some serious money to run your Apple or Dell display at 2560x1600 resolution. ATI now calls its video capability aVivo.
Just to clarify, we learned that the whole series 5 products will have two dual link transmitters. This means that R520, RV530 and RV515 cards can support two displays running at 2560 x 1600 resolutions. I don’t recall that a single card was capable of running two such displays before, and now even the sub $100 Radeon X1300 based on RV515 will be able to power two displays, each running at 2560x1600.
Our sources close to ATI implied that display capabilities of $99 card will beat flagship $499+ Geforce 7800GTX when it comes to resolution support. Ouch, Nvidia really.
Our friends at Hexus shows the dual link capabilities of R520XT in action here.
At the same time, the Radeon X1800, R520 and Radeon X1600, RV530 will be able to do hardware decoding of HD H.264 while the entry level card will be able to do software High Definition. There is a possibility that R515 will be able to do HD H.264 as some engineers are playing with it, so they might learn that there is enough power in that chip anyway to do the HD.
From what we've seen, R520 and the rest of the Fudo generation offers good display options and the display industry has to love ATI, as it will give them the possibility to make even larger displays with even higher resolution. µ
Final Words
Although ATI's announcement today kicks off Avivo, we really won't get a good feel for what the platform can really do until ATI finally launches their R5xx GPUs. ATI is saying that the first Avivo enabled GPUs should be shipping by the end of this month, meaning that the first R5xx GPUs should be available by then. Once we have hardware in house, we can really put Avivo to the test.
At this point we're mostly excited about the GPU assisted transcode and decode features of the R5xx series of GPUs, and even more excited that both features are supposed to be available by the end of this year. As we get more information on release dates and product offerings, we will of course keep you updated.
ptzs disse:Claro, os "sitios do costume" estilo Rage3D e Elitebastards são de uma credibilidade e isenção brutais quando comparados com o TheInquirer.
Os testes para mim não são secundários, até porque ninguém com verdadeira credibilidade veio dizer que são totalmente inventados. Pelo contrário, já foram confirmados, mas dizem que devem ter sido feitos com uma r520 fracota.