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Monday, November 22 2004

Ati X850 Details Leaked?  by Craig D at 11:23

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The Inquirer has posted some details of the next set of Radeon cards, the X850

The fastest of them all, the Radeon X850XT Platinum edition is clocked to not that an impressive 540MHz core and 590/1180MHz GDDR 3 memory. The card has two DVI slots for two TFTs.

The second in the X850 hall of fame, the Radeon X850 XT, is clocked to 520MHz core and 540, 1080MHz memory and just like the X850XT PE has sixteen pipelines.

The third solution is called the Radeon X850 PRO and it's clocked to 520MHz core too, and 540, 1080MHz memory but will come with twelve pipelines.

It will launch these cards on the first of December early in the morning but expects to have those cards on the market in early January 2005.

Seems the X800XT/PE still isn't avaialable in any real quanitity and is already being replaced.
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Tricky
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22 November 2004 11:51
Doesnt seem all that impressive, for a 'new' card. Minor speed change and we gain 'better optimised aarchitecture' and some thermal improvements. :/ should be called the X801 rather than X850

My brothers has a x800 pro, it runs at XT PE speeds and has the missing pipelines unlocked via a bios patch. Which for me makes the top end cards seem like less value for money, if a lower card can do the same job.
Stan
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22 November 2004 16:29
omg mine is allready replaced !!!!
Allways the way they will keep giving us little tweaks till there next major release.


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