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ATI to Announce The New R520 in June?
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Posted by Donster on: 2005-04-08 14:25:55 815
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By Anton Shilov @ X-bit Labs
A spokesperson for graphics cards maker Sapphire Technologies revealed some peculiarities in regards the launch of ATI Technologies’ new visual processing unit known under R520 code-name. According to the official, the chip will be introduced early this Summer.
ATI’s R5xx architecture will not resemble that of the previous generation products and NVIDIA’s GeForce 6 architecture known as NV4x; particularly ATI will implement efficient flow-control, a crucial feature for pixel shaders 3.0, that will not bring speed penalty it does on existing SM3.0 hardware, according to sources. The future of the graphics hardware lies in higher number of ALUs ops per texture ops, unified pixel and vertex shaders as well as some other requirements of Microsoft Windows Longhorn operating system, such as virtualization and context switches. While ATI agrees on the long-term goals for its roadmap, it does not name feature-set of actual products and says all the architectural changes will be implemented gradually, not at once.
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