Radeon 9800 SE : The Low Buget Wonder !

[David G.]

From what I can understand from their chinese ( I don't know a bit of that language ) , it seems that the cards will use a 9500 Pro setup for the memory chips .

The thing is that the memory will be very cheap : TSOP 3.6 NS memory will be used instead of the curent high speed BGA chips .

The speeds will probably be the same as Radeon 9500 Pro : 275/550 but the cards will be powered by a full fledged R350 .

What's wonderfull is that the VPU will probably go easily @ 400 Mhz and the memory will get at least 600 Mhz DDR .

The price range should be up to 249 $ ERP .


I wonder why ATi is bringing such a solution to the market ... is it because the stock of R300 based cards is runing out ?

Is it because they have a surplus of R350 VPUs ... ?

 

[Evildeus]

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6820

 

[Slides]

I saw some benchmark where it appeared to be slower then the 9600.

edit: LOL, yeah that's it.

 

[David G.]

Hey ... BIG quiestion that it seems I've totaly ignored : will they ise 128 or 256 bit PCB ?


... nice that dual CRT output although a DVI to CRT output adapter would have been more practical ....