Radeon® X800 XL 512 MB graphics card

[KamisoriX]

ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT) today launched its powerful new Radeon® X800 XL 512 MB graphics card, allowing gamers to run today’s top games at the highest image quality settings possible, at very high speeds, delivering an amazing gaming experience. Further, the introduction of 512MB graphics cards allows game developers to raise the visual quality bar for their next-generation games currently in development.

The Radeon X800 XL 512MB is currently being used by today’s top developers including BioWare; Crytek; Digital Extremes; Funcom; Gas Powered Games; Grin; id Software, inc; Juice Games; Lionhead; NCsoft; Remedy and Valve. Hungry for new advanced platforms to drive development, industry pioneers are already praising ATI’s advancements powering the shift to High Definition gaming.

“New games are intensely realistic and graphics-heavy and the Radeon X800 XL 512MB is designed to maximize their impact by delivering amazing visual quality and performance,� said Rich Heye, Vice President and GM, Desktop Discrete Products, ATI Technologies Inc. “With the Radeon X800 XL 512 MB, gamers will be able to max-out their image quality settings and render highly realistic images without having to compromise on performance.�


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:D

[Psycho Pigeon]

Yep ATI rule! B)

[KamisoriX]

I was wondering why they took the 800 and not the 850.
BTW: The real new card comes out end of summer - mid winter. supposently it has 32 pipelines and a sack full with weed so you can use those pipes right away :D

[Psycho Pigeon]

hehe yeh i herd about the 32 pipelines, that's what i'll be saving for and give that ago, mmm secret stash of weed aswell ey? perfect!. Maybe they were already working on this before they released the 850, apparently the 800 had a few bugs so they brought out the 850 and added abit of clockspeed aswell, who knows.

[KamisoriX]

Here is the full ATi Press release. (http://apps.ati.com/ir/PressReleaseText.asp?compid=105421&releaseID=705309)
499$....killer price :D

[Fycus]

a dollar a megabyte, DOH!

[Silent Archer]

Originally posted by KamisoriX@May 4 2005, 11:36 PM
I was wondering why they took the 800 and not the 850.
BTW: The real new card comes out end of summer - mid winter. supposently it has 32 pipelines and a sack full with weed so you can use those pipes right away :D
A Fat ass Sack of KBizzle.... aka. Kind bud...

[fineliner]

You should read some reviews though. I would advise buying one with 256 mb. Difference in performance is one or two percent, difference in cost is about 40 percent. ;)

[KamisoriX]

the next card was ALWAYS only 2-5% stronger than the last. There was never a card that outbeats the last by a milestone.
:D

I rather wait half a year for the real new card.

[Silent Archer]

I take it this card is PCI express only?

[KamisoriX]

the pics shows only the prozotype.
the actual cards don'have 2 DVI and will be for pci and agp :D

[GM™]

Originally posted by Fycus@May 5 2005, 03:31 AM
a dollar a megabyte, DOH!
Not really, take into consideration that you're paying $100 for the GPU and cooler, $50 for the packaging, cables and games... I think the RAM is actually quite cheap considering the low yeilds... Maybe $0.5 or something if you include the markup.

[embracedeath]

And they might have better availabilty than the x800's when they first came out... :rolleyes: