Tuesday, September 06, 2005

ATI R520 To Come In Q3 2005 - Clock Speeds Revealed?

Taiwanese Digitimes.com reports that ATI has informed its clients in Taiwan that it will gradually begin volume shipments of its R-series GPUs, including the R520, RV530, RV515 and RV505 by the end of the third quarter. R-series GPUs are fabricated at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), using a 90nm processing technology, according to the sources.

More information on the R520 is available from
The Inquirer.net. It looks like ATI will launch a card with limited availability one more time. ATI did it last time with the X800XT Platinum (Phantom or Press) edition and it looks like it is going to play on that card again. They also learned that ATI's sixteen pipelines R520, aka as Fudo, is going to compete well with twenty four pipelines Nvidia 7800 GTX. ATI will launch it in the first week of October and those cards should be available just after. Some of them will be available in quantities like the 500MHz card while the 600MHZ card will be there but not in numbers.

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