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ATI X800GT spotted

Mainstream X800 eight pipe card

WE JUST LEARNED that ATI has its own GT part. Nvidia has 6600GT, 6800GT both shipping and is about to start shiping first of its series seven GT, Geforce 7800GT.

ATI on the other hand will soon introduce, possibly very quietly, its X800GT card. In Nvidia world GT means fast and available while in ATI world GT stands for mainstream and cheaper than XT, and XT PE. Those two companies are well known for its communication problems as they simply can not talk or agree about almost anything. They both do agree that making more money than previous quarter is a great thing.

ATI X800GT is eight pipelines card based on R430PRO chip developed on 110 nanometre marchitecture featuring 160 million transistors. It will be available as both 128MB and 256 MB card in both cases featuring 256 bit memory interface. Card will be clocked at 392 MHz core and 700 MHz memory and will come with GDDR3 or DDR1 memory. Its PCIe 16 X card but I guess ATI can make AGP version pairing this chip with its well know Rialto bridge chip.

This card will look exactly like X800 standard card but except 12 pipelines, X800GT will have eight of them enabled. The X800 STD 128 MB version with 12 pipelines cost less than €200 so you can expect that ATI's X800GT should come even cheaper. I suggest ATI wants to put the pressure on Geforce 6600GT as X800GT will be Crossfire capable and possible priced at same range. So now lack of Crossfire support for X700PRO cards suddenly makes sense? Who needs X700 when you have X800GT for those systems, clever indeed. Cards should resurface very soon.

Source: Inquirer
 
AFAIK no one has a crossfire system yet.Good work ATi :keep on releasing more X800-whatever cards,with no SM3.0.Will there ever be anything other than the X800 from ATi?Even Fanatics must be wondering now.
C'mon is no one getting tired of this X800-whatever ,bullshit?
 
The X800 series's story-X800pro and X800-XT,X800XT-PE.Don't go down well with the market,so X800,X800XL and X850.Within the X850-the vanilla X850 ,the X850 "PRO",the X850XT,THE X850XT-PE!Not to mention the X800SE.
Man.I'm having a headache keeping track of X800 monikers.So here comes the X800GT!
ROFL.
 
Geforce2MX, Geforce2MX 200, Geforce2MX 400, Geforce4MX 420, Geforce4MX 440, Geforce4MX 440-SE, Geforce4MX 440 - AGP8x, Geforce4MX 460, Geforce4MX 4000 .. phew, what a long list :eek:hyeah:
Now which part is sold more - X800's or Geforce MX cards? The average consumer has been made the biggest fool by nvidia thru their MX series cards, and continues to be fooled (long live the MX4000, All hail the upcoming MX400000 ;) )
 
^^ To add to that FX5200, FX5100, FX5500, FX5300(yes all of these exist!) on top of that the 64bit variants of the same which there is no way to distinguish from the 128bit parts. Atleast ATI has the SE postfix for the cards that are 64bit. ITs not that I'm not blaming ATI for the same... esp for the 9000/8500/9100/9200 fiasco... but atleast there's a way to know which is a 64( 128 )bit craptacular part and which is a real 128(256)bit part.
 
To add insult to injury, the MX4000 models come with a 32-bit mem bus (the "higher-end" MX4000s come with a more generous *ahem* 64-bit bus).
No no, dont rub your eyes, you're seeing it right. Dont believe me? Go check out an XFX MX4000 64MB card at your nearest store now - seems to be one of the popular models ;)
 
Oh yeah,remember the site boycottsapphire.com(or something like it.) about 9800 pros being only 128-bit?FanATics just won't admit that ATi is desperate,no matter what.
BTW,about the fx5200 and MX440:these variants were low-end cards that serious gamers never buy anyway.The X800 on the other hand is supposed to be a high-end part.
Seriously, can you honestly say that the X800 naming is not a fiasco?
And the GF2MX and the GF4MX are NOT the same cards,mind you.
And lest hope for fanatics' sake that the R520 actually comes out and doesn't become a Voodoo 6,but then ATi can always have the X850 XXT UPE(ULTRA PLATINUM EDITION) to compete against the 7800U right? :rofl:
 
Voodoo 6... oh, that was never made.... by 3dfx?
Wonder what happened to 3dfx?
Oh, what was that? They were bought out by nVidia? Ooooh! Now nVidia can make products just like 3dfx!
 
The GF4MX is not GF2MX,period.They are similar but different cores.As different as the GF3 and GF4-similar but different.Infact the GF4MX is to the GF2 what the GF4 was to the GF3.
By the same yardstick if the GF4MX is a GF2MX,the X850 is a 16-pipe 9800. ;)
 
KingKrool said:
Voodoo 6... oh, that was never made.... by 3dfx?
Wonder what happened to 3dfx?
Oh, what was that? They were bought out by nVidia? Ooooh! Now nVidia can make products just like 3dfx!
Click to expand...
Or may be they can buy ATi and stop all driver support for FanATics. :rofl: Just like they bought 3Dfx.But the problem with ATi is it has nothing to offer to Nvidia in terms of R&D unlike 3Dfx.
 


heres the link.. they have some good pics and looks like they even tried to unlock pipes (unsuccessfully)

benchmark and compares with 6600gt + 6800le on page 4

http://www.hkepc.com/hwdb/x800gt-1.htm

Specs of X800GT

X800GT : 470MHz /780MHz 128MB DDR1 256-bit 8 pipelines

X800GT : 470MHz /980MHz 256MB GDDR3 256-bit 8 pipelines
 
^^ Lol, I wonder whether these cards will perform better than my 6800 which is 16 x 6...

I mean will the faster clock speeds be able to make up for the lack of pipelines ?

Cause it beat the 6600GT and the 6800LE marginally in real-world tests...
Dont talk about 3D Mark, cause ATi always does well in synthetic tests...
 
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