Anand has the details about r520,rv530,rv515

[no-X]

Here... But where are all reviews?

edit: tEd: X800GTO 128MB = X800 128MB, X800GTO 256MB is faster (490MHz GDDR3)

 

[tEd]

One thing I hadn't considered when thinking about R520 sharing its TMUs between vertices and fragments (if indeed it does) is point sampling - which I presume is going to be the predominant form of texturing in vertex shaders. In Xenos it seems that point sampling can run in parallel with texture filtering. 16 pipes of each.

Although I don't think point sampling actually requires pipelines, as such - just a set of coordinates and a wait until the results turn up (it would be great to get clarification on this). Although, having said that, the texture coordinates need to be calculated, which would be pipelined. Erm, I dunno...

Anyway, if R520 has only 16 pipelines to access textures, whereas Xenos has "32", split equally into point-sampled and filtered, then R520's vertex shaders are looking down the barrel of a serious bottleneck...

Jawed

When the TMU's really would be unified between vertex and pixel than it should be possible to use higer filtering on vertex shader than point sampling but afaik that's not possible with r520.

 

[Jawed]

I've just remembered that "hybrid" word that fell out of favour a while back.

I suppose you could say hybrid means that the TMUs are shared for vertex and fragment shading.

Jawed

 

[Geo]

Here... But where are all reviews?

edit: tEd: X800GTO 128MB = X800 128MB, X800GTO 256MB is faster (490MHz GDDR3)

I wonder what NV would say about this part and demo: http://www.x800gt.com/eng/gaming

 

[_xxx_]

I wonder what NV would say about this part and demo: http://www.x800gt.com/eng/gaming

They'd ROTFL, just like I have to

 

[CMAN]

Why did they spend so much time on that website, but not send review boards out. In addition, why spend the money when you are launching a new family in under a month?

 

[Geo]

It seems to have been an initiative of the German office, so I guess I'd answer "local factors" of some sort, from their perception of their local market to such mundanes as internal politics at that particular office and resources twiddling their thumbs looking for something to do --maybe they had a bright intern with web skillz this summer --"Sure, kid, why don't you do something with this. . .". Just an example.

 

[Hanners]

Why did they spend so much time on that website, but not send review boards out. In addition, why spend the money when you are launching a new family in under a month?

Tweak Town seemed to get an X800 GTO sample, if nobody else did.

As for spending the money, I guess this is a good way of clearing out your inventory.

 

[no-X]

Why did they spend so much time on that website, but not send review boards out. In addition, why spend the money when you are launching a new family in under a month?

There are 10 official graphics card partners (scroll down), so the GTO doesn't look like a short-time product, small advertisement will not harm.

 

[Dave Baumann]

Tweak Town seemed to get an X800 GTO sample, if nobody else did.

I've got a Sapphire Ultimate Edition sitting under my desk.

 

[Geo]

deleted.

 

[Hanners]

I've got a Sapphire Ultimate Edition sitting under my desk.

I finally get my hands on an X800GT, then someone sticks an 'O' on the end and I feel out of the loop again.

 

[Rys]

And I've got a couple too, since we're all sharing

 

[trinibwoy]

Tweak Town seemed to get an X800 GTO sample, if nobody else did.

Ah, everybody's on the bandwagon now

For example, with the X1800 due out soon with a 16 pixel pipeline architecture there is no doubt that a much higher core and memory speed will be used for it to compete against the 24 pixel pipeline nVidia offering we call the 7800GTX.

 

[CMAN]

How will the RV530 affect the sales of the X800 GTO? The one article said the GTO is priced around $210, while the X1600 is supposed to be about $199. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind ATI putting out good cards at good prices, but it seems the GTO will be a short lived product. I'm just not understanding the purpose (other than maybe doing all they can to get rid of inventory).

 

[Carl B]

How will the RV530 affect the sales of the X800 GTO? The one article said the GTO is priced around $210, while the X1600 is supposed to be about $199. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind ATI putting out good cards at good prices, but it seems the GTO will be a short lived product. I'm just not understanding the purpose (other than maybe doing all they can to get rid of inventory).

Yeah, I definitely think getting rid of inventory is the plan with that card.

 

[Jawed]

Didn't the GTs pretty much sell out within a few weeks?

Jawed

 

[Arty]

Didn't the GTs pretty much sell out within a few weeks?

Jawed

Yes.

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23025

 

[Ailuros]

We need a vs_3_0 texldl benchmark :smile:

For better or for worse?

 

[CJ]

It seems to have been an initiative of the German office, so I guess I'd answer "local factors" of some sort, from their perception of their local market to such mundanes as internal politics at that particular office and resources twiddling their thumbs looking for something to do --maybe they had a bright intern with web skillz this summer --"Sure, kid, why don't you do something with this. . .". Just an example.

The German ATi Office sure has a sense of humor. Look at the color of the t-shirt from the loser and the shirtnumber. And of course they have to add that the X800GT wins a reward on a nVidia fansite on the frontpage.