FWIW X1300 benchmark scores, maybe?
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X1300 pics?
http://www.hardspell.com/news/showcont.asp?news_id=17750
Errrm. . .weren't we expecting double dual-dvi? Or is that just RV530 and up?
http://www.hardspell.com/news/showcont.asp?news_id=17750
Errrm. . .weren't we expecting double dual-dvi? Or is that just RV530 and up?
Radeon X1300, RV515 goes AGP
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26471
HOW ABOUT $100 for a low end board with 512MB? At the same time the board is AGP or PCIe and will have support for HDR and Shader model 3.0? There will be solution for you. It's called RV515 and will be known as Radeon X1300, AGP of course.
At this time we can only confirm that Radeon X1300LE comes as an AGP card while we are not sure whether ATI plans to offer a Radeon X1300 PRO card as well.
The RV515 LE, Radeon X1300 LE is targeting 450MHz engine clock and 500MHz memory while Radeon X1300 PRO is targeting 600MHz clock with 800MHz memory. We know that X1300 LE comes in PCIe version supporting Hyper Memory configurations and this card will have memory working at 400 or 500MHz and the core running at 450MHz.
All those cards are 90 nanometre, derived from R520, have four pixel pipelines and use Shader Model 3.0. The card also has 128 bit memory interface, and supports Avivo video. RV515's 90nm manufacturing process enables feature integration previously unheard of in this price category such as Shader Model 3.0 support, 128-bit memory interface, Avivo video and display technology, a four way memory controller, Hyper Memory support and can address 512MB or even more memory on the card.
These cards should be available at launch on the first week of October.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26471
HOW ABOUT $100 for a low end board with 512MB? At the same time the board is AGP or PCIe and will have support for HDR and Shader model 3.0? There will be solution for you. It's called RV515 and will be known as Radeon X1300, AGP of course.
At this time we can only confirm that Radeon X1300LE comes as an AGP card while we are not sure whether ATI plans to offer a Radeon X1300 PRO card as well.
The RV515 LE, Radeon X1300 LE is targeting 450MHz engine clock and 500MHz memory while Radeon X1300 PRO is targeting 600MHz clock with 800MHz memory. We know that X1300 LE comes in PCIe version supporting Hyper Memory configurations and this card will have memory working at 400 or 500MHz and the core running at 450MHz.
All those cards are 90 nanometre, derived from R520, have four pixel pipelines and use Shader Model 3.0. The card also has 128 bit memory interface, and supports Avivo video. RV515's 90nm manufacturing process enables feature integration previously unheard of in this price category such as Shader Model 3.0 support, 128-bit memory interface, Avivo video and display technology, a four way memory controller, Hyper Memory support and can address 512MB or even more memory on the card.
These cards should be available at launch on the first week of October.
HyperMemory is, I believe, just a marketting term for storing textures in system memory, the very thing that AGP has been doing for ages. The only difference is that PCIe has more bandwidth (and I think lower latency, but I'm not certain on that), and thus can do a better job at it.CMAN said:I didn't know AGP cards could support HyperMemory....?
All R300+ cards have actually been able to render to/from system memory, its just not done for performance reasons.
Joe DeFuria
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I would think that the "reason" for 512 MB "low end cards" (aside from marketing), is for Vista. Particularly with AGP cards. We all know that AGP isn't that great (sucks) for shuffling memory "back and forth" from system to local memory. Having as much local memory as possible on AGP cards should go a long way to improving Vista performance.
I would imagine that we will be going back to some scripted "OS Graphics" benchmarks (Everyone remember Ziff Davis UI benchmarks back in the day?
) pretty soon, and particularly for AGP cards, having more local memory should be a big benefit.
I would imagine that we will be going back to some scripted "OS Graphics" benchmarks (Everyone remember Ziff Davis UI benchmarks back in the day?
) pretty soon, and particularly for AGP cards, having more local memory should be a big benefit.Joe DeFuria said:I would think that the "reason" for 512 MB "low end cards" (aside from marketing), is for Vista. Particularly with AGP cards. We all know that AGP isn't that great (sucks) for shuffling memory "back and forth" from system to local memory. Having as much local memory as possible on AGP cards should go a long way to improving Vista performance.
I would imagine that we will be going back to some scripted "OS Graphics" benchmarks (Everyone remember Ziff Davis UI benchmarks back in the day?
Will the OS really need that much video memory...oh wait, nevermind. I guess it is being programmed by Microsoft.
Jawed
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To see the pix (edit: hmm, they weren't showing before, but now they are):
http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=478276&extra=page%3D1
Pity there are no "feature test" results, e.g. texture rate and vertex shader.
Jawed
http://www.hkepc.com/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=478276&extra=page%3D1
Pity there are no "feature test" results, e.g. texture rate and vertex shader.
Jawed
Galduta said:
Let me check my pants... egads! Obviously I would like to see some official stuff, but screenshot of the chip and 3DMark05 picks go a bit to showing this is legit.
X1300 beating a 6600? The GT is in the 29xx range. Your talking about an X1300, a low end part, beating a high-midrange part from two years ago (9800Pro, ~23xx) and last years low-midrange (6600, ~25xx) and very close to the best midrange product (6600gt, ~29xx).
This is really good news for the "baseline" performance. The R9200, FX5200, GF6200, X300 (and X600) are just dogs. A really bad balance of (non-)performance and features.
Looks like the X1300 can play games like Doom 3, Half-Life 2, FarCry, BattleField 2, etc... at decent resolutions and most of the features at respectible levels. This is great news for gamers, and great news for ATI. Obviously nice to have the fastest flagship model, but many more consumers will have low end products comparatively. And in the long run the hardware the low end guys has determines what features the top end guys get. If they can get this out the door for $100 (which sounds reasonable because a 6600GT can be had for $140) then this is indeed exciting times for consumers.
I wonder how much of the R520's architecture is shared with R515?