Radeon 8500 Maxx ??

[MuFu]

RADEON 8500 MAXX? LOL...

(Just copied from R3D...)

There is absolutely NO dual R200-based board in development (FACT!) and there never will be unless ATi want to pull a very, very strange marketing manoeuvre and kill some R300 sales. Technically it is possible using the "Bridget" AGP bridge chip found on the 8500DV, but I doubt they can justify it from a logistical point of view.

The string, "RADEON RV250 SECONDARY" = ati2mtag_RV250, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_496E" found in [ATi.Mfg] is most likely for a driver used when a daughtercard configuration is detected but may concern a second VGA on the mainboard or daughtercard.

MuFu.

P.S. Nice pic though; looks cool if you really squint or are slightly pissed. Has the right sorta shaped blobs...

 

[Tahir2]

Hmm the more you look at it the more fake it seems... or maybe it is the lack of sleep making things clearer. Er, quite.

Anyway now I notice that the perspective is wrong on the second GPU too. Still impressed though. Also there are no specular shading or shadow mapping on the FAN CONNECTOR on the first GPU either. Some of the capacitors on the 2nd GPU do not seem to be correctly Z Buffered either.

Yea, I hear ya.. I'll shut up now and go to bed.



Edit: Did you notice the fact that the 45 degree tilted edges don't seem to be filtered correctly either?

 

[Bambers]

You forgot to point out that vertical edges arn't AA'ed so well in fog

 

[Doomtrooper]

Re: RADEON 8500 MAXX? LOL...

(Just copied from R3D...)

There is absolutely NO dual R200-based board in development (FACT!) and there never will be unless ATi want to pull a very, very strange marketing manoeuvre and kill some R300 sales. Technically it is possible using the "Bridget" AGP bridge chip found on the 8500DV, but I doubt they can justify it from a logistical point of view.

The string, "RADEON RV250 SECONDARY" = ati2mtag_RV250, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_496E" found in [ATi.Mfg] is most likely for a driver used when a daughtercard configuration is detected but may concern a second VGA on the mainboard or daughtercard.

MuFu.

P.S. Nice pic though; looks cool if you really squint or are slightly pissed. Has the right sorta shaped blobs...

 

[Dave B(TotalVR)]

Its definately fake, but well done.


The real giveaway is the lighting, the author must have just 'forgotten' about that, look at the two chips, see how one casts a shadow (exactly the same as in the 8500 pic I might add) and the other doesn't, but the capacitor behind it does. For this to be right the light would have to be right up close to the card, but it isn't as we would see the bulb in the pic.

Dave