The french site Clubic.com has exclusive informations about ATI's next gen 3D chip, here's a small extract in english :
Reliable industry sources relatively close to ATI, told french website Clubic.com, ATI is going to have a sixteen pixel pipelines part starting this spring. Being part of the R420 familly this part is supposed to be a R420 and will likely be available in AGP 8x & PCI-Express 16x flavors. This news comes as a big surprise since the upcoming so called X800 was supposed to be a 12 pixel pipelines only VPU which would have fallen short in terms of performance when compared to NVIDIA?s brand new NV40.
For More Info Warp2 .... Clubic.com
Reliable industry sources relatively close to ATI, told french website Clubic.com, ATI is going to have a sixteen pixel pipelines part starting this spring. Being part of the R420 familly this part is supposed to be a R420 and will likely be available in AGP 8x & PCI-Express 16x flavors. This news comes as a big surprise since the upcoming so called X800 was supposed to be a 12 pixel pipelines only VPU which would have fallen short in terms of performance when compared to NVIDIA?s brand new NV40.
For More Info Warp2 .... Clubic.com