RADEON 8500 ULTRA IS COMING!!!

[RadeonMAXX]

Wooo man the core can probably overlcock near or on 400 mhz Massive fillrate !

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Tweaked Out Radeon!

Win 98SE
Duron 800
Radeon SE
IWILL KK266 http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1489&p=10

3DMark2000 default 6499 250/230mhz

3DMark2001 default 3440 250/230mhz

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[leoku]

Originally posted by steppy76:
The best part is that you won't even have to pay for it...the 8500 is being released with a 300MHz core(a bonus of 50Mhz that NV would make you pay for 6 months from now). Thanks to Ichnewmon at rage3d for the heads up.

I doubt the trueth of the statement. Rage3D has nothing posted in the homepage about the core clock hike.

I seriously think this is another hoax made by some ATI nuts. Look what the "ATI 8500 finalized benchmark" thread has done.

[steppy76]

Go to rage3d now and you will see news on the front page. Although the hike is only 25mhz instead of 50.

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P3 866 256 pc133 ram
radeon 32ddr 40 gig hd 48x cd-rom
sb live x-gamer 5.1

[richardginn]

why not go for the 50???

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[KeeperMarius]

The heat in which a graphics card produces has a lot to do with the way you design it. When you're saying 300mhz can't be produced on a 50-60+ million transitor chip on a .15 micron, you're thinking in terms of Nvidia. ATI chips in general run a lot cooler than Nvidia's simply by design. Take the Radeon for example. They took the same R100 core and made the "RadeonSE", or at least that's what we call it, and made it run cooler with an updated stepping. (Though I haven't a clue exactly how they did it.) AMD does it. Intel does it. Nvidia does it. 3dfx *did* it. It's not uncommon for companies to do this, but hey, we're getting the benefit from it anyways, so no complaints here.

(Now, let's all not jump to conclusions on how fast the R2 will be. There's no official statement yet, though if you take a close look at Newegg's advertised R2 and you'll see a fillrate of 2.6 gigatexels. Divide that by 8 and do the math guys. I think that'd be pretty b@d@***...)

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T-Bird 1200/200
384mb PC-133 RAM
ATi Radeon 64mb
Windows 2000 Professional

[Humus]

Originally posted by richardginn:
why not go for the 50???

I suggest it may have something to do with that it's easier to get your hands on 275MHz DDR than 300MHz DDR in case the want to get the advantage of syncronized mem and core.


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Tweak your Radeon. Get Raid on Tweaker here

[Belial]

I hope ATI starts making chipsets too; we need more competition and lower prices too. If it wasn't for ATI right now; the geoforce 3 would still be sky high in price. Nivida fans must feel pretty threatened by the fact they may not have the fastest card out; Nivida is counting on it and making the next miniscule speed upgrade for them now. ATI fans go for quality and Nivida fans go for speed; seems how they like to market their wares.

Also since memory speeds are still so low why can't they just put all the video memory on the chip itself and not have any ram at all? wouldn't it be faster to have all the video memory on say a 1.4 ghz video chip? I mean come on they only use 64meg of memory for most cards now anyway so why not just put it all on the chip as L1 or whatever.

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ASUS CUV4X-C
Win 98 SE
PIII 1000mhz/133 FSB 148
Sony 21" G500 monitor
2 sticks 256K pc133 cas 2
Radeon all-in-wonder ddr
Maxtor 7200 ata100 60 gig
ALS 4000 sound card
U.S. 56k modem
floppy & cd rom drive
ANTEC 601 case

[This message has been edited by Belial (edited September 25, 2001).]

[steppy76]

They've got a P4 chipset on the way. From what I read about Nforce at anand, that sounds like it would be a great P4 chipset.

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P3 866 256 pc133 ram
radeon 32ddr 40 gig hd 48x cd-rom
sb live x-gamer 5.1

[Sooung]

Originally posted by Darkman:
I don't understand how a chip on a 0.15 micron still can get up to 300 mhz , doesn't it need to go to 0.13 micron?

How dim.
My Pentium 3 running at 1001Mhz OC'ed (with intel HS, watercooling on the way) from 933Mhz is built on a 0.18micron process.

[Darkman]

Originally posted by sooung:
How dim.
My Pentium 3 running at 1001Mhz OC'ed (with intel HS, watercooling on the way) from 933Mhz is built on a 0.18micron process.

My celeron 1000 can work up to 1150mhz and it also is 0.18 micron, but i was saying that if it already was possible why not do it from the beginning.

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