X1300 PReview a little early ;)

[wireframe]

shouldn't the 256MB make a difference in say... CoD2?

It should even make a difference in CoD1.

 

[AlphaWolf]

No.

And that's because they havent annouced them officially yet...

Well Vista isn't officially announced yet either. And if you look at the list it does have the radeon xpress crossfire edition, even though it says the page was last updated Aug. 2.

 

[Skrying]

Well Vista isn't officially announced yet either. And if you look at the list it does have the radeon xpress crossfire edition, even though it says the page was last updated Aug. 2.

And Crossfire was brought up, and even marketed since almost June I believe.

 

[chrisATI]

Why else would it debut with 256 MB?

i16/fp16 blending with AA

...

 

[AlphaWolf]

...

Now that you're here you may as well leak some info.

 

[Moloch]

...

good luck with that.. single digit framerates...

 

[ZoinKs!]

Yeah, I'll be quite surprised if the x1300 class can do hdr + aa at playable speed. If it can, then that bodes well for x16/1800.

Also, for what it's worth, pcpop has what looks like a preview up:
http://www.pcpop.com/doc/0/111/111034.shtml

No benchmarks afaict, but a bunch of pretty pics of the board and two screenshots from AoE3. For some reason, they also put up comparison screenshots from 6600gt. I can't read the language but guess it was meant to show x1300 running sm 3.0 code.

I just had a thought: are those AoE3 pics running hdr + aa?

 

[Razor1]

Yeah, I'll be quite surprised if the x1300 class can do hdr + aa at playable speed. If it can, then that bodes well for x16/1800.

Also, for what it's worth, pcpop has what looks like a preview up:
http://www.pcpop.com/doc/0/111/111034.shtml

No benchmarks afaict, but a bunch of pretty pics of the board and two screenshots from AoE3. For some reason, they also put up comparison screenshots from 6600gt. I can't read the language but guess it was meant to show x1300 running sm 3.0 code.

I just had a thought: are those AoE3 pics running hdr + aa?

nope lots of jaggies all over both the 6600 and the x1300 look at the tower butracies in the first set of pics and the second set the big orange dome.

 

[Jimmers]

How do they get away with saying Doom3 is a DirectX 9 benchmark?

 

[Xmas]

Don't forget FP10 and 3Dc.

The 10-bit per channel format is fixed point.

 

[Putas]

Interesting how it owns 3dm05 with 2 vertex shaders. I believe this little puffy can be overclocked to a new heights.