ATi unveil R420

[Malfunction]

Ummm... why does it say "Radeon X800 demo," while there are two XBoX controllers at that workstation?

http://www.oc.com.tw/article/0404/imgs/ati-RANCH-015B.jpg

 

[Joe DeFuria]

"Someone:"

1) Get a pic of the full card
2) Get a close-up of those ram chips.

This particular model looks to be single DVI, unfortunately.

 

[engall]

So do we guess this says 500MHz Core and 600MHz RAm for X800?

http://www.oc.com.tw/article/0404/readgoodarticle.asp?id=2533

No. This says X800 want 500Mhz ram even 600MHZ. And that means the final spec of R420XT isnt set.

 

[Joe DeFuria]

Ummm... why does it say "Radeon X800 demo," while there are two XBoX controllers at that workstation?

http://www.oc.com.tw/article/0404/imgs/ati-RANCH-015B.jpg

The XNA demonstration boxes (that used R420 cards), included the demonstration of using X-box controllers to show the new input capability when using XNA.

That demonstration pic looks like the "crash" XNA demo.

 

[MuFu]

Looks good - obviously the Pro.

 

[rainz]

R420

nice !!

RainZ

 

[jolle]

using Xbox controllers on PC hasnt been exactly difficult either..
get a adaptor, or just swap the cable, which is USB but with a different looking connector..
there is even some driver for it somewhere..

but if it was officially supported, so much the better, specially for Xbox ported games developed for the Xbox and not the PC..

 

[Malfunction]

Ahh.. thank you Joe

 

[digitalwanderer]

SPECULATE: So what's the new card's logo? Lotsa teeth in there. . . Alligator? Dragon?

No, it's a close-up of the bottom half of their Radeon Gargoyle Guy. (See the 9800 clock demo)

Thanks Engall, now I know what the card I'm dreaming about looks like! 8)

Its my pleasure.You are fanATIc ,aint you?

No, I'm not. I'm a hardcore hardware enthusiast. 8)

I just think I got a much better shot at owning an R420 before an nV40 for some weird reason. (HINT: nVidia has blacklisted me, but I'm still on friendlies with ATi )

 

[Rodéric]

SPECULATE: So what's the new card's logo? Lotsa teeth in there. . . Alligator? Dragon?

Isn't a Dragon an irradiated reptile anyway ?

 

[digitalwanderer]

So do we guess this says 500MHz Core and 600MHz RAm for X800?

http://www.oc.com.tw/article/0404/readgoodarticle.asp?id=2533

問題四：在Radeon X800產品中，ATi採用的是DDR 3的記憶體，對ATi而言直接跳過DDR 2而採用DDR 3的意義為何？對整體價位會有影響嗎？又目前DDR 3記憶體的良率足以提供Radeon X800系列產品的量產嗎？

ANS：其實ATi會直接採用DDR 3記憶體的原因是相當單純的，因為目前DDR 2的頻率最高只有到450MHz，並沒有辦法達到Radeon X800所要的500甚至600MHz，對我們來說，價格不是絕對的問題，重要是要達到那要的規格，就必須要用到那樣等級的產品。而在良率部份，目前包括三星、現代、英飛凌、美光等公司都可以提供我們所需要的DDR 3記憶體，所以在產品的良率跟產能都還足夠負荷新產品的使用

I was guessing it'd be around 500/600, but I was sort of hoping for an 500/833 if they could get enough of it in time.

Could you just freaking imaging 1666Mhz memory? On the tea-time card?

Fuck, I'd have to buy myself one!

 

[Malfunction]

using Xbox controllers on PC hasnt been exactly difficult either..
get a adaptor, or just swap the cable, which is USB but with a different looking connector..
there is even some driver for it somewhere..

but if it was officially supported, so much the better, specially for Xbox ported games developed for the Xbox and not the PC..

Ya, I know about the USB adaptors, though why do it? Guess it is just more of a PR stunt than anything else as wouldn't a mouse be enough?

Thought there may have been more to get excited about than what it actually is, that's all.

 

[Nappe1]

ARGH! Are all future cards going to carry a dustbuster?

no. latest revision of parhelia does not have dustbuster neither molex connectors.

 

[digitalwanderer]

Ya, I know about the USB adaptors, though why do it? Guess it is just more of a PR stunt than anything else as wouldn't a mouse be enough?

It could also be they didn't want anyone monkeying around/crashing their game demo on the floor so they just left two controllers accessible to play the demo with. (That's what I'd do.)

 

[JCLW]

BabelFish does a good job translating the whole thing. Use Chinese-trad to English.

 

[anaqer]

The white square in the top right looks like the big connector and the slightly yellow box below looks like a smaller power connector.

It's really hard to see, but I'd say that's the sort of connector you find on motherboards to plug the CD audio cable in... I remember seeing those on other VGAs as well some time ago ( maybe on a nonpro 9600 or something like that ). I have no idea what it's for though.

 

[notAFanB]

So do we guess this says 500MHz Core and 600MHz RAm for X800?

http://www.oc.com.tw/article/0404/readgoodarticle.asp?id=2533

問題四：在Radeon X800產品中，ATi採用的是DDR 3的記憶體，對ATi而言直接跳過DDR 2而採用DDR 3的意義為何？對整體價位會有影響嗎？又目前DDR 3記憶體的良率足以提供Radeon X800系列產品的量產嗎？

ANS：其實ATi會直接採用DDR 3記憶體的原因是相當單純的，因為目前DDR 2的頻率最高只有到450MHz，並沒有辦法達到Radeon X800所要的500甚至600MHz，對我們來說，價格不是絕對的問題，重要是要達到那要的規格，就必須要用到那樣等級的產品。而在良率部份，目前包括三星、現代、英飛凌、美光等公司都可以提供我們所需要的DDR 3記憶體，所以在產品的良率跟產能都還足夠負荷新產品的使用

it is referring to using DDR3 and skipping DDR2 altogether (for the required 500MHz to 600MHz Memory clock)

this paragraph is not refering to the Core clock of the r420.

 

[Ostsol]

SPECULATE: So what's the new card's logo? Lotsa teeth in there. . . Alligator? Dragon?

Isn't a Dragon an irradiated reptile anyway ?

No, they're the beasts that killed the dinosaurs and are sleeping under London!

 

[Doomtrooper]

 

[digitalwanderer]

Coward, come out and play!