Beyond 3D's Dave Baumann sent me an email about rumours or speculation if you prefer of an Radeon 9800 XT graphics card ... ATI will have another product available in a few months or so, and there are some clues as to what that product is. DDR-II RAM on the 256MB 9800 PRO, which is currently running at 350MHz, is actually rated for 450MHz operation.
When ATI went out to find some RAM for this product they couldn't get much in the way of DDR-II rated at 350MHz, but strangely Samsung had a fair amount of 400MHz+ DDR-II stockpiled but, now, unused so they sold it to ATI at a very attractive rate. Radeon 9800 PRO 256MB's may have a reasonable memory overclock because of this, but by the looks out the layout and the length of some of the traces I'll wager that this will not get up to these levels. The new product that will come out is probably likely still to be a Radeon 9800 classed product, but with a newer suffix - "XT". And while over at 3DCenter.org I noticed that Leonidas has got himself the Radeon 9600TX INF file from the latest Catalyst Drivers 3.4 for download! For more info warp2 ... 3DCenter.org.
When ATI went out to find some RAM for this product they couldn't get much in the way of DDR-II rated at 350MHz, but strangely Samsung had a fair amount of 400MHz+ DDR-II stockpiled but, now, unused so they sold it to ATI at a very attractive rate. Radeon 9800 PRO 256MB's may have a reasonable memory overclock because of this, but by the looks out the layout and the length of some of the traces I'll wager that this will not get up to these levels. The new product that will come out is probably likely still to be a Radeon 9800 classed product, but with a newer suffix - "XT". And while over at 3DCenter.org I noticed that Leonidas has got himself the Radeon 9600TX INF file from the latest Catalyst Drivers 3.4 for download! For more info warp2 ... 3DCenter.org.
