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More Ati Leaks (Old?)

aeonrevolution

aeonrevolution

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Got this from Elite Bastards, one of the blokes from the site was PM'ed it:

R520XT CF
Core: 600Mhz
Mem: 512MB GDDR3 @ 700Mhz
Cooling: Dual Slot
Releasedate: End of October

R520XT
Core: 600Mhz
Mem: 512MB GDDR3 @ 700Mhz
Cooling: Dual Slot
Releasedate: End of October

R520XL
Core: 500Mhz
Mem: 256MB GDDR3 @ 500Mhz
Cooling: Single Slot (?)
Releasedate: Beginning of October

R520LE
Core: 450Mhz
Mem: 256MB GDDR @ 250Mhz
Cooling: Dual Slot
Releasedate: End of October

RV520XT CF
Core: n.a.
Mem: n.a.
Cooling: Single Slot
Releasedate: Mid December

RV520XT
Core: 600Mhz
Mem: 128MB/256MB GDDR3 @ 700Mhz
Cooling: Single Slot
Releasedate: Mid November

RV520Pro
Core: 500Mhz
Mem: 256/512MB DDR @ 250Mhz
Cooling: Single Slot
Releasedate: Mid December

RV515Pro
Core: 600Mhz
Mem: 256MB/512MB DDR @ 400Mhz, HM Support
Cooling: Single Slot
Releasedate: End of September

RV515LE
Core: 450Mhz
Mem: 32MB/64MB Low Profile, 256MB/512MB ATX @ 250Mhz, HM Support
Cooling: Single Slot
Releasedate: End of September

The availibility dates have also been set. The dates above are chipset/card delivery-to-factory dates. So you have to add some weeks before you can get them in stores. Of course anything can be changed by ATi at will and they have done so a lot of times.

These dates don't say anything about the date when reviews will appear since samples will be available in two weeks.

My own speculation when looking at the dates is:

It looks like they are targeting to have availibility of the new SM3.0 line before the holiday season. ATi will first release the R520XL - hence Beginning of October - which will be faster than the GF7800GTX. They probably expect nVidia to release a GF7800Ultra soon after they launch the R520XL. That's where the R520XT comes in - hence End of October. It will be faster than anything nVidia have to offer.

So in short it's:
September: RV515
October: R520
November: RV530

Of course RV530 will tell us more about R580 since they partly share some new innovations. I'm expecting ATi to have the upper hand when it comes to IQ.

And of course you have probably read about the speculation of a 450Mhz R520 card that will reach about 7200 points in 3dMark2005. I'm suspecting that the persons who leaked this info didn't release that ATi had something faster in the docks. I think this was the R520LE although the memory speed of the LE kinda through me off. 250Mhz DDR is kinda slow and leads to even less memory bandwidth than my old R9700Pro. So this either means that the R520LE is really a toned down card when it comes to pipelines (16 pipelines?) and is just blazing fast thanx to some uberpipeline architecture... or ATi have done something to their memorycontroller to make it fast.

I think it's save to assume that the R520LE is 16 pipelines @ 450Mhz. Currently the Radeon850XT scores a bit above 6k in 3dm2k5. If ATi really did manage to significantly tweak their pipelines and make it faster, 450Mhz could be enough to boost 16 pipelines to a 1k higher score. But again, this is all speculation from my part.

Once I get final 3dMark scores, pipeline config, etc I'll get back to you a.s.a.p.
 
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so many rumors and guesses, someone hit it 6 months ago or more im sure, this is all meaningless to me now, who the hell cares anymore, need the cards. I'd actually be more interested in the actual naming scheme then the frequencies. And that will leak when stuff is actually being printed, then we can get excited. k?
 
I kind of find it hard to believe that ATI can provide 512 megs of ram while keeping costs down.
 
Clock speeds mean nothing. For all we know, the R520 could be running on 16-pipes (which would make it perform hardly any better than the X850XT). I want to see some solid info on how many pipelines this card will have and how wide the memory bus will be (*fingers crossed* please make it 512-bit...).
 
GVX said:
Clock speeds mean nothing. For all we know, the R520 could be running on 16-pipes (which would make it perform hardly any better than the X850XT). I want to see some solid info on how many pipelines this card will have and how wide the memory bus will be (*fingers crossed* please make it 512-bit...).
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uh...the R520 IS running 16 pixel pipes with 8 vertex....what matters is how the pipes work, and thats it. From everything i'v read the entire core was ripped up and alot has been replaced, including heavy pipeline modification.
 
Shifra said:
uh...the R520 IS running 16 pixel pipes with 8 vertex....what matters is how the pipes work, and thats it. From everything i'v read the entire core was ripped up and alot has been replaced, including heavy pipeline modification.
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But as you and everyone else knows..it's only rumor.

No one knows what the r520 will have...
 
We can all sit there and suck our thumbs while we guess when and what the R520 will be like.

Patience people, and if you don't have any, buy the 7800 and be quiet.
 
i just love the authorative tone of how the guy wrote up his post

this card WILL have this....

it WILL be faster than nvidia

it WILL be available by october (2007?)

As everyone has said, its all rumors til ATI says so.

My guess is it WILL be out in march 2008, be 42 pipelines running at 1ghz requiring a 1.21jigawatt power supply.
 
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