ATi R520

[Pressure]

Not much info out on this card yet besides that it uses PS 3.0 and that it's going to be GDDR4. According to The Inquirer the card is due out sometime in May. Hopefully some more information will be out soon. How much more powerful do you think the R520 line will be compared to the R420 line?

 

[The Terminator]

I would bet itll be much more powerful, I think well see even bigger gains then we did between the 9800 line and the x800 line.

 

[Pressure]

Right now we can only hope for the best.

 

[X|Rolando]

... and hope for one slot cards w/o mumbo-jumbo fans.

 

[`unreal]

whats so bad about the huge fans and things, i dont mind them at all

 

[l337x3r1cx]

too bad i just bought an X850... oh well... not like itll be easy to get these things till next year lol

 

[Washuu]

GPUs are only going to hotter and hotter, they are already pushing their limits for temps.. afaik, 50-60C as some see as being normal temps, just is way to much stress for any microprocessor.

 

[DrDevin]

Pure speculation but it could be a dual GPU version of the current X800. Doesnt seem like a realistic rumor though http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=23807

 

[`unreal]

It could also possibly be quite crap. But then again this has come much quicker than I was expecting - im going to wait for the gen after this to upgrade to the next. Knowing ATi though, they are going to put up a good fight, so it could quite possibly be stupidly fast.

 

[Pressure]

It could also possibly be quite crap. But then again this has come much quicker than I was expecting - im going to wait for the gen after this to upgrade to the next. Knowing ATi though, they are going to put up a good fight, so it could quite possibly be stupidly fast.

This was the line I was waiting for before I made the new computer I was going to use for the next few years. Hopefully it is stupidly fast so I have something that'll last a good few years.

 

[`unreal]

Well looking at the rumour for the specifications,

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 (AMR)
Launch: Q2 2005
Performance: Over 3x Radeon X800 XT !!! (for single R520)
16x stochastic FSAA
FP32 blending, texturing
Programmable Primitive Processor/Tesselator

It will either be stupidly fast OR theres some ATi fanboy trying to scare nVidia with his rumours. Either way it doesn't really interest me too much since i won't be investing in this particular line up.

 

[Pressure]

Well looking at the rumour for the specifications,

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 (AMR)
Launch: Q2 2005
Performance: Over 3x Radeon X800 XT !!! (for single R520)
16x stochastic FSAA
FP32 blending, texturing
Programmable Primitive Processor/Tesselator

It will either be stupidly fast OR theres some ATi fanboy trying to scare nVidia with his rumours. Either way it doesn't really interest me too much since i won't be investing in this particular line up.

These are just rumors. There are quite a few possible things on there but I doubt it'll be 3x as fast as the X800 XT, but if it is kudos to ATi. One thing I see wrong is that they say the memory is GDDR3 but in reality it's going to be GDDR4. I can only hope that it has 512mb memory, that would be awesome. We just have to wait and see when it comes out or wait until ATi officially released more information. Hopefully this card is damn good because I want to get one around fall/winter this year.

 

[VirusType2]

Well looking at the rumour for the specifications,

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 (AMR)
Launch: Q2 2005
Performance: Over 3x Radeon X800 XT !!! (for single R520)
16x stochastic FSAA
FP32 blending, texturing
Programmable Primitive Processor/Tesselator

It will either be stupidly fast OR theres some ATi fanboy trying to scare nVidia with his rumours. Either way it doesn't really interest me too much since i won't be investing in this particular line up.

Holy crap!
This graphics card sounds "`unreal"!

seriously, it sounds unbelievable! I've only got 4 pipelines =(
I feel like i'm playing Atari =(

 

[Washuu]

does GDDR4 even exist?

 

[Pressure]

Obviously it does if ATi says the card is going to be GDDR4 .

 

[Bakurei]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21382

Let it be r520.

 

[Pressure]

That article is about the R480s having 512 memory. If they can do it with those cards they can surely do it with the R520s.