Overclockers get to test R520?

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..or is it AMR? :)
http://www.ati.com/gitg/promotions/ultimatelan/index.html

In the “Rock Around the Overclockâ€￾ event, hosted by ATI’s Terry Makedon, world champion overclockers will compete for the world record in 3DMark 2005 using ATI and partner hardware.
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"World record in 3dmark 2005". An X850XT-PE won't do. :)

The best benchers and overclockers are invited. More in the thread over at xtremesystems.org.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52851

They will supply the mobo and CPU, and I believe, a never seen before Graphics card
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Says "Oppainter", one of the invited guys.

I dunno, R520 already? What do you think? I guess we have to wait and see. February 25th- 27th it is then. 8)
 
Nice find :)
2 weeks away, not sure which one i'd prefer they show though, amr or r520 :?:
And never before seen can be read subjectively so :?
Exciting :D
 
Ati trying to win the enthusiast crowd back from nvidia?
If they really wanted to do that, they'd put another spin on the X800XL so it can hit 450~mhz.
But it is cool they're doing that, but they really need to get some agp X800XL's out!!!!!!!!!!
 
Anyone see this further down the OC's forum??

Not sure how accurate this info is but seems to be close.
ATI R520...Due out in May 05
24 "Pipelines"
32 Texture Units
96 Arithmetic Logic Units (ALU)
192 Shader Operations per Cycle
700MHz Core
134.4 Billion Shader Operations per Second (at 700MHz)
256-bit 512MB 1.8GHz GDDR3 Memory
57.6 GB/sec Bandwidth (at 1.8GHz)
300-350 Million Transistors
90nm Manufacturing
Shader Model 3.0
ATI HyperMemory
ATI Multi Rendering Technology (SLI)
Launch: Q2 2005
Performance: Over 3x Radeon X800 XT !!! (for single R520)
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http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52851

About half way down.

US
 
You forgot some features that a confidential source told me:

16x stochastic FSAA
FP32 blending, texturing
Programmable Primitive Processor/Tesselator
oh, and a bridge in Manhattan
 
Unit01 said:
2 weeks away, not sure which one i'd prefer they show though, amr or r520
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Or maybe it's not R520 or AMR at all.
But if ATI are serious when they talk about the 3dmark-05 WR they need something. :)
I haven't checked the ORB for a while, but i think NVIDIA has a ~4000 point lead, (SLI vs X8*0 XT-PE) and thats a lot.
 
DemoCoder said:
You forgot some features that a confidential source told me:

16x stochastic FSAA
FP32 blending, texturing
Programmable Primitive Processor/Tesselator
oh, and a bridge in Manhattan
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...but is it VIC-II compatible in register level? ;)
 
IbaneZ said:
But if ATI are serious when they talk about the 3dmark-05 WR they need something. :)
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Given '05's propensity towards Vertex Shading, this could just boil down to a "super-cooled", highly overclocked X850 as they did with X800 previously.
 
DaveBaumann said:
Given '05's propensity towards Vertex Shading, this could just boil down to a "super-cooled", highly overclocked X850 as they did with X800 previously.
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But even with extreme-as-hell OCing I don't think ATi could make up the point spread in 3dm2k5 with just a single X850. :?

I don't know what it is, time to go bug Terry again... ;)
 
DaveBaumann said:
Given '05's propensity towards Vertex Shading, this could just boil down to a "super-cooled", highly overclocked X850 as they did with X800 previously.
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You're probably right. (And of course you already know. :LOL: )

It's gonna be a great event though, even if we won't see a record/new hardware.
Hopefully nothing will burn up or explode when the madness starts. 8)
 
Uh. . .anyone see ATI letting overclockers start performing the dark arts on multiple R520s right now? If they have some, how many could they have at this point? Enuf to run considerable risk of meltdowns on some? This seems like a vanishingly-small possibility to me.

If it's not a super-cooled X850, then it must be AMR. Maybe a new spin or pcb version of X850 that supports AMR?
 
geo said:
Uh. . .anyone see ATI letting overclockers start performing the dark arts on multiple R520s right now? If they have some, how many could they have at this point? Enuf to run considerable risk of meltdowns on some? This seems like a vanishingly-small possibility to me.


If it's not a super-cooled X850, then it must be AMR. Maybe a new spin or pcb version of X850 that supports AMR?
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Why not could be a good PR thing if it's done right. Not only one r520 but 2 :D or they have a super special board where they can put 4 cards in it :oops: ;)

or maybe.....no that's enough for today

ps: 1000th post 8)
 
Unknown Soldier said:
Anyone see this further down the OC's forum??

Not sure how accurate this info is but seems to be close.
ATI R520...Due out in May 05
24 "Pipelines"
32 Texture Units
96 Arithmetic Logic Units (ALU)
192 Shader Operations per Cycle
700MHz Core
134.4 Billion Shader Operations per Second (at 700MHz)
256-bit 512MB 1.8GHz GDDR3 Memory
57.6 GB/sec Bandwidth (at 1.8GHz)
300-350 Million Transistors
90nm Manufacturing
Shader Model 3.0
ATI HyperMemory
ATI Multi Rendering Technology (SLI)
Launch: Q2 2005
Performance: Over 3x Radeon X800 XT !!! (for single R520)
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http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52851

About half way down.

US
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Note the quotes around pipelines. I'm betting this is the same thing ATI did last year by spreading the 12 "xtreme" pipelines info for the R420, when as we all know now the thing actually had 16 (which I suppose in some messed up math world could be considered 12 "xtreme" pipelines)
 
Ratchet said:
Note the quotes around pipelines. I'm betting this is the same thing ATI did last year by spreading the 12 "xtreme" pipelines info for the R420, when as we all know now the thing actually had 16 (which I suppose in some messed up math world could be considered 12 "xtreme" pipelines)
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Notice that TU and ALU are multiples of 16 as well, but TU is not a multiple of 24. Strongly smacks of someone hinting at 16ps/8vs in some type of quasi-unified/interchangeable structure.

Of course this assumes it isn't all wild fancy in the first place, which I wouldn't put any of my money on.
 
london-boy said:
radeonic2 said:
Ati trying to win the enthusiast crowd back from nvidia?
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That implies that NVIDIA has the enthusiastic crowd now? :|
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Obviously.
6800GT anyone?
they tell everyone to get a 6800GT and clock it to ultra speeds.
The X800 pro (unless vivo) will always be a 12 pipe card, and will never have the performance of an X800XT, wher as the 6800GT easily can have the performance of the 6800 ultra.
Head over to [H] forums, and other hardware forums and see what people are suggesting for people with 200- 400 bucks to spend.
It's all nvidia in that market, its onlythe 450+ market ati has a hold off.
 
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