Web-site [H]ard|OCP published preliminary specifications of graphics cards powered by RADEON X800-series of visual processing units. Apparently, the products will differ from each-other not only by core-clocks, but also by the number of rendering pipelines.
ATI Technologies' chip known as R420 will be called RADEON X800 and is likely to be launched on the 26th of April, 2004. Higher-speed flavour of the R420 – the RADEON X800 XT – is expected to debut on the 31st of May, 2004, if the assumptions posted last week are correct. PCI Express x16 solution powered by the R423 architecture – RADEON X880XT – will see the light of the day on the 14th of June. Besides, there will also be a cost-effective version of the R420.
Visual processing unit code-named R420 is ATI Technologies' next-generation DirectX 9-supporting graphics chip.
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News source: X-bit Labs
