Items tagged with ATI
Last week we gave you a run down on the features and performance of Asus' new CrossFire Xpress 3200 board, today we'll give you a close-up sneak peek on Abit's offering, the AT8 32X. Abit AT8 32 X CrossFire Xpress 3200 Motherboard This mobo from Abit looks to be a bit more cost targeted than Asus' board which has dual...
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OCZ Technology Introduces Enhanced Latency PC-3200 Platinum XTC Modules Sunnyvale, CA—March 2, 2006 - OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced the release of PC-3200 Platinum 1024MB XTC and PC-3200 Platinum Revision 2 XTC. The...
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Corsair Announces Committed RAM Allocation from Infineon, and Continued Support for AMD Enthusiasts Using exclusively Infineon's Rev. C DDR SDRAM, Corsair's XMS-3500LL PRO 2GB kit ramps up to deliver ultra-low latency performance Fremont, CA (March 1, 2006) – Corsair(R) Memory, Inc., a worldwide leader in high...
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ATI Delivers the Fastest Gaming Platform with the CrossFire'TM' Xpress 3200 Chipset MARKHAM, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 2006-- World's fastest gaming performance, unprecedented overclocking capabilities and maximum stability combine to unleash new age of enthusiast motherboards ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY)(NASDAQ:ATYT), has changed...
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ATI has been coming on very strong these past few months, bolstering their GPU line-up with a slew of new products, ranging from the entry level Radeon X1300 all the way on up to the flagship Radeon X1900 XTX. The company's well documented execution problems from 2005 are behind them, and they seem to be firing on all...
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Beyond3D has posted word from 3DLabs that the company is exiting the professional 3D GPU market and will instead be focusing their attention on handheld graphics. Being a cornerstone of the OpenGL 2.0 spec amongst countless other contributions, the loss of yet another competitive GPU vendor is sure to be a loss for the consumer. Regardless,...
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Anandtech has posted an article which outlines the current status of ATI's upcoming RD580 with motherboard vendors in Taiwan. With the launch of this chipset, ATI will have single-chip answer to NVIDIA's nForce4 SLI x16 chipset allowing its Crossfire technology ample bandwidth. With a launch pending in the near future, it appears as though...
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Beyond3D has posted confirmation that ATI's next generation GPU will be based off of technology currently found in the Xbox 360's XENOS GPU. Without question, this seems to guarantee a unified shader architecture which will arrive just in time to match with DirectX10's support for such an architecture. With the efforts already made to go down...
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Though it's capable of CrossFire support, the ASRock 775XFire-eSATA2 won't be breaking any speed records. Even so, with a price tag of around $80, this motherboard looks to be a great mainstream solution. "ASRock brings another cost/performance motherboard into the...
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DailyTech brings word that ATI has responded to the latest complaints regarding the company's supposed support for HDCP functionality with its products. HDCP content protection is said to be fully supported by ATI's latest GPU's. However, products using these GPU's lack the appropriate decryption keys at the board level to actually allow for...
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The Asian hardware website Hardspell has written a brief article (translator required) that analyzes a supposedly leaked ATI roadmap slide. Glancing at the image which was seemingly stolen from another website called HKEPC, it appears as though ATI will have an 80u core for every product range except the flagship part. Here, the X1900 XTX...
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OCZ Technology Unveils Next Generation DDR2-1000 (1GHz) Solution to be Showcased at this Year's CeBIT Sunnyvale, CA—February 21, 2006—OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today announced the release of the PC2-8000 Gold XTC DDR2 Series designed to run 1GHz+...
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Our friends at PC Perspective have evaluated ATI's latest multimedia flagship, the All-In-Wonder Radeon X1900. As its name implies, this card features a Radeon X1900 class GPU along with all of the multimedia functionality the All-In-Wonder line is famous for. PC Per liked the AIW X1900 quite a bit, and so did we. Here's our evaluation for...
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Another month, another driver release. This month, ATI's recent release seems aimed at fixing a host of various driver bugs. However, the "Known Issues" list is equally as long as the "Issues Resolved" list, but with a monthly driver release schedule, there's hope many of them will be fixed soon. Click here for the driver...
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When ATI launched the Radeon X1900 last week, the company didn't simply unveil a single new high-end sku. Instead, they announced a total of four new X1900-based products; the high-end Radeon X1900 XTX, the slightly lower clocked Radeon X1900 XT, the X1900 CrossFire Edition, and the product we'll be evaluating here, the All-In-Wonder...
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Tech Repo Tech Report has just posted their review of ATI's latest flagship All-In-Wonder graphics card based on the new X1900 GPU. Despite having significantly lower clock speeds for both GPU and memory, the latest AIW card still retains the full 48 pipelines of the R580 core. Given the lower frequencies and the fact that the card "only"...
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Major OEMs and System Builders Choose ATI's Radeon(R) X1900 Radeon(R) X1900 products available immediately around the world MARKHAM, ON – January 24, 2006 – ATI (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT) today launched and has made available its newest graphics processors for gaming and multimedia enthusiasts, the Radeon(R) X1900. The Radeon X1900...
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In October of '05 ATI officially unveiled a new family of graphics cards based on the company's R520 GPU core and its derivatives. With the R520 ATI introduced a new "Ultra-Threaded" architecture, along with their new Ring Bus memory controller, and a more powerful video engine dubbed AVIVO, among numerous other things. Unfortunately...
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The Inquirer reports that they are receiving word that ATI's upcoming RD580 Crossfire chipset will be slightly delayed until late February or early March. Based on a new Xpress 3200 chipset, RD580 should provide a healthy increase in performance as well as address several of the shortfalls of ATI's previous chipsets. For those looking to mate...
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Xbit takes on the Creative Labs SoundBlaster X-Fi and has this to say..."Well, we have just got acquainted with the true successor to the legendary sound card family from Creative. It is very nice that the company decided to continue working on the sound processing algorithms focusing on the realistic sounding for headphone listening. This...
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Just in time for the weekend, Fudo has posted an interesting bit of news regarding the next motherboard ATI will be cooking up for Intel. Apparently, we won't be seeing any earth-shattering changes in this next iteration aside from the switch from DDR to DDR2 memory. However, Fudo does leave us with a hint regarding the next motherboard to...
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The guys at NGOHQ took some time with ATI's X1800 to see what this card could do in the overclocking arena. What they found was the X1800 was quite the little overclocker indeed. Utilizing ATITOOL, this experiment yielded impressive results, all without any physical modifications required. This is a brief write up that didn't...
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