Official 9800pro specs "leaked" by FIC

Nah - I think it's the full suite they have access to now (which includes Specctra etc...). They were using Power PCB before.

MuFu.

 

"The agreement is initially for three years and includes a broad range of Cadence technology"

http://www.cadence.com/company/pr/012003_ATI.html

 

The only area where ATI might not be able to compete is in the $99 low end market. With Nvidia having a directx 9.0 card vs ATI's budget DirectX 8 cards.

 

If you can call the NV34 a DX9 card

 

Well according to xbitlabs the Radeon 9800 will be launched tommorow.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1046790346

 

Yeah I saw that after I posted it. (Argh details!) but the heading of the article says tommorow. 8) heh.

 

6th

xlabs didnt say any new simply digest known leaks

but they didnt right about unlimited ps in FX. limited but big.

 

So whats up with the 512 kb Flash?
Those Flashes I have read about isn't exactly fast compared to DDR RAM (rather big latencies). And it’s the first time I have seen a Flash as a feature for a graphic card. (Or have I just missed it?)

 

I bet this is just the standard 64KB graphic card bios, nothing really revolutionary .

 

That seems.. unlikely.

 

Actually, this is the first leak I've heard that mentioned changes to AA and Aniso algorithms.

And I think somewhere nVidia claimed that the FX architecture was "essentially unlimited" in terms of instructions, and they more or less "arbitrarily" imposed instruction limit counts on the products. (For example, the QuadroFX apparently imposes twice the instruction limit as the GeForceFX variant).

 

As I said before, that was a PR document.
Imagine the agony of a PR-bunny who can only add "512 kb of Flash memory". Damn, that must have hurt. Which is odd - it would make sense if the R350 was simply a faster, bugfixed spin of the same core and this was the only additional feature bullet they could think of. But that doesn't quite jive with FIC offering both the A97 and A98 at the same clocks at the same time. Unless, of course, they have R300 inventory or are contractually obliged to sell a certain quantity.

Hmm.

Entropy

 

Or maybe ATI has made too many R300's and needs to "dump" them, so their cost to FIC will be considerably less than the R350.

 

Well that page has been pulled down. So either the information is incorrect and FIC is correcting it (one wonders why they didn't just make the simple HTML change if that were the case), or it is indeed correct, but ATI didn't want the beans to be spilled before their announcement this week.

I'm willing to bet on the latter..

 

somethimes better to read news posts all to end even at theinquire

Whats they say two+ days ago:

 

Works only with the latest beta, I hope ATi releases new drivers soon then I will retest this issue and post an article an the mod. files.

Thomas