ATI's next line will have??

[Cole]

http://theinquirer.net/?article=26319

ATI'S MULTIMEDIA team did great homework with its Rc5xx series. We were expecting something interesting from ATI in terms of multimedia, but we didn’t expect that ATI will have dual link transmitters on the whole product range. Just a few months back, you were supposed to pay some serious money to run your Apple or Dell display at 2560x1600 resolution. ATI now calls its video capability aVivo.

Just to clarify, we learned that the whole series 5 products will have two dual link transmitters. This means that R520, RV530 and RV515 cards can support two displays running at 2560 x 1600 resolutions. I don’t recall that a single card was capable of running two such displays before, and now even the sub $100 Radeon X1300 based on RV515 will be able to power two displays, each running at 2560x1600.

Our sources close to ATI implied that display capabilities of $99 card will beat flagship $499+ Geforce 7800GTX when it comes to resolution support. Ouch, Nvidia really.

Our friends at Hexus shows the dual link capabilities of R520XT in action here.

At the same time, the Radeon X1800, R520 and Radeon X1600, RV530 will be able to do hardware decoding of HD H.264 while the entry level card will be able to do software High Definition. There is a possibility that R515 will be able to do HD H.264 as some engineers are playing with it, so they might learn that there is enough power in that chip anyway to do the HD.

From what we've seen, R520 and the rest of the Fudo generation offers good display options and the display industry has to love ATI, as it will give them the possibility to make even larger displays with even higher resolution. µ

 

[Qonfused]

Seems kinda worthless if the card itself can't run 2560x1600 alone.

 

[J_Tweedy]

nice, but still not sure whether resolution's a huge drawcard just yet- most are fairly happy on their 17 and 19 inch screens.


.... aren't they?

 

[Lahire149]

Well ATI got something right.

 

[Ren.182]

Wow, nice.

I'm actually excited about these cards again. I think ATi have just kept quiet about what these cards can really do. Bring on the full specs!

 

[duffers20]

I really hope that they have more good news about the capabilities of there new cards.

 

[MiccyNarc]

Methinks no one is really going to care.

As previously said, everyone loves their 17/19/21 inch screens. Having a widescreen res like that is nice, for probably 10,000 people.

 

[TheGrimSweeper]

Methinks no one is really going to care.

As previously said, everyone loves their 17/19/21 inch screens. Having a widescreen res like that is nice, for probably 10,000 people.

precisely. this will only appeal to a small market.

 

[Cole]

Yes but lets not forget, it was thought that the ATI Cards could only do 1600x1200 at 60hz and no higher than that at all.
It looks like that was completely wrong.

 

[Asus]

Yes but lets not forget, it was thought that the ATI Cards could only do 1600x1200 at 60hz and no higher than that at all.
It looks like that was completely wrong.

That is when in Crossfire mode for supporting the X800 cards.