Any new info on the ATI RS480 and RX480 chipset?

[{Sniping}Waste]

It should be out soon but there is very little info on it like who is going to use it.

 

[Psikotiko]

Radeon Xpress 200 G and non G will support all socket Athlon 64/FX and Opteron CPUs, dual channel memory, PCIe 16X + four PCIe 1X slots, PCI slots, eight USB ports, AC 97 audio, four S-ATA drives, two parallel ports and Raid 0 and 1. As you notice, it doesn't have any LAN support even though Nvidia and Via do support this feature.

So ATI has two chipsets on the way - one with integrated graphic and one without. At least for a time, ATI will remain alone in the integrated PCIe area and its chipset will provide quite powerful graphic power, for a chipset of course. It is based on RV370, X300 core and it will use UMA (unified memory architecture).

The ATI chipset is a bifurcated answer, just like Via's K8T890 chipset but I am sure that ATI has to be price competitive as we hearing that it has already won some significant OEM and retail motherboard deals.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19424

 

[Pete]

Hmmm, how does UMA work with A64's integrated controller? Does it route the IGP's memory calls? Is this better/worse/indifferent than a separate NB controller for the IGP?

 

[chavvdarrr]

http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2264&p=4

Although there is a lot of support for ATI's upcoming chipsets (you'll read about them here next week), almost all the manufacturers were saying that their ATI products will be Intel-only. The worry is that with such a strong competitor in the Athlon 64 realm(nf4) that their ATI products won't sell; there's also a lack of confidence about ATI's ability to supply their South Bridges. Whether or not the fears are well founded, none of the motherboard manufacturers expressed much interest in an ATI Athlon 64 chipset just yet. We'll see what happens next week, there may just be a few changed minds.

Sadly I think that possible - with ATi's "record" of supplying chipsets on time...... pity, K8-IGP with relatively good performance can be a hit

Also on the previous page, there is talk about E-stepping A64's whcih will be out in '05, with SSE3 support and enhanced IGP performance

 

[{Sniping}Waste]

found some more info.
http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=29;t=000950
3Dmark 03 score around 16XX and up to 2XXX with a larger frame buffer.