ATi x800pro specs

[JCLW]

http://www.allstarshop.com/shop/product.asp?pid=8988&sid=QDW3SU88MR308NT1TVC71XN9HSTJ27C2

In case it gets pulled (as I'm sure it breaks NDA):

ATi RADEON X800 PRO 256MB DDR AGP8X TVO/DVI (Retail)
Built by ATi
12 parallel pixel pipelines
256-bit quad-channel GDDR3 memory Interface
8 extreme parallel pixel pipelines
6 parallel vertex processing engines

Our Price: $499.00
Pre-Order (ETA:05/07/2004)

The ATI RADEON™ X800 PRO delivers frame rates that surpass any previous graphics processor making it the world’s most powerful VPU. With up to two times the performance of the acclaimed RADEON™ 9800 PRO, the RADEON™ X800 PRO provides an extremely smooth, responsive HD gaming experience, putting capable gamers in complete control of even the most demanding game titles. A radically new architecture based on the latest .13 micron, low-k manufacturing process with ultra fast and efficient GDDR3 memory combine to produce extreme data rates and unbelievable acceleration in a quiet, cool, single-slot solution.

BREAKTHROUGH IMAGE QUALITY
The RADEON™ X800 PRO defines a totally new High-Definition Gaming experience for the avid gamer by maximizing performance and image quality in higher detail and at higher resolutions than ever before. ATI‘s new and revolutionary 3Dc™ image enhancement technology brings characters to life and scenery to greater realism by enabling significant improvements to the image detail of character art with increased performance and lower memory usage. 3Dc™ is slated to become the industry standard to support more complex high-definition visual effects in real time.

ADVANCED 3D ARCHITECTURE
The RADEONTM X800 PRO features SMARTSHADER™ HD, the most advanced pixel
shader engine with 12 parallel pixel pipelines capable of an incredible 6 igapixels/second fill rate in full precision! With six programmable vertex shader pipelines, capable of up to 7000 million vertices per second and an overall capability of over 140 million floating point operations per second(Giga FLOPS), the RADEON™ X800 PRO delivers the most beautifully rendered high-definition 3D animation for the ultimate in intense, interactive game play.

CUTTING EDGE VIDEO TECHNOLOGY
The RADEON™ X800 PRO gives you more than just a great gaming experience. It also has sophisticated video processing, filtering and acceleration features that make multimedia applications more efficient, inspiring and fun. With VIDEOSHADER™ HD, the RADEON™ X800 PRO takes advantage of its advanced shader processing engine for user programmable video effects, video quality enhancement, and encoding and decoding of many video standards, including MPEG1/2/4, Real Media, DivX and WMV9. The RADEON™ X800 PRO also supports the latest high-definition and wide display formats, giving users bigger and more vivid movie, gaming and Internet experiences.

SMARTSHADER™ HD
Support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 programmable vertex and pixel shaders in hardware
Direct X 9.0 Vertex Shaders
Vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
Single cycle trigonometric operations (SIN & COS)
Direct X 9.0 Extended Pixel Shaders
Up to 1,536 instructions and 16 textures per rendering pass
2nd generation F-buffer technology
accelerates multi-pass pixel shader programs with unlimited instructions
32 temporary and constant registers
Facing register for two-sided lighting
128-bit, 64-bit & 32-bit per pixel floating point color formats
Multiple Render Target (MRT) support
Complete feature set also supported in OpenGL® via extensions

SMOOTHVISION™ HD
3Dc™ - Normal map image compression technology resulting in high detail image quality
2x/4x/6x Anti-Aliasing modes
Sparse multi-sample algorithm with gamma correction, programmable sample patterns, and centroid sampling
Lossless Color Compression (up to 6:1)at all resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions
Temporal Anti-Aliasing
2x/4x/8x/16x Anisotropic Filtering modes
Up to 128-tap texture filtering
Adaptive algorithm with bilinear (performance) and trilinear (quality) option

3DC™
High quality 4:1 Normal Map Compression
Works with any two-channel data format

HYPER Z™ HD
3-level Hierarchical Z-Buffer with Early Z Test
Lossless Z-Buffer Compression (up to 48:1)
Fast Z-Buffer Clear
Z Cache optimized for real-time shadow rendering
Optimized for performance at high display resolutions, including widescreen HDTV resolutions

VIDEOSHADER™ HD
Seamless integration of pixel shaders with video in real time
FULLSTREAM™ video de-blocking technology for Real, DivX, and WMV9 formats
VIDEOSOAP™ noise removal filtering for captured video
MPEG1/2/4 decode and encode acceleration
DXVA Support
Hardware Motion Compensation, iDCT, DCT and color space conversion
All-format DTV/HDTV decoding
YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays
Adaptive Per-Pixel De-Interlacing and Frame Rate Conversion (temporal filtering)

[navicaph]

wish i had 500 bucks to blow

[JigPu]

12 parallel pixel pipelines capable of an incredible 6 igapixels/second fill rate
Means it should have a core speed of 500MHz. Though what the "8 extreme pixel pipelines" are is beyond me....

Vertex programs up to 65,280 instructions with flow control
32 temporary and constant registers
Sounds like vertex shader 2.X or 3.0. Since all the predictions have been leaning to a lack of 3.0 support, I'm going for 2.X.

Sweet looking card there :)
JigPu

[Overclocker550]

they could get in big trouble, perhaps ati wont let them sell any cards for this. 500MHz core sounds right, although rumors point it at 475

[Steven4563]

sounds like a nice card i cant wait to see how it does and not only keep seeing the specs on paper ( monitor :D )

[xtrmeocr]

sounds like 8 pipelines will have dual alu's and will be capable of a dual issue, and the other 4(8 for the xt) will be single's.

from a yield POV this sounds pretty bad, if 1 out of the 8 "extreme" pipes are bad, then do they have to scrap the entire chip?

this is going to be a close one, supposedly all 16 pipelines on the gf6800 are capable of a dual issue.

[JigPu]

Originally posted by xtrmeocr
sounds like 8 pipelines will have dual alu's and will be capable of a dual issue, and the other 4(8 for the xt) will be single's.

from a yield POV this sounds pretty bad, if 1 out of the 8 "extreme" pipes are bad, then do they have to scrap the entire chip?

this is going to be a close one, supposedly all 16 pipelines on the gf6800 are capable of a dual issue.
All the specs I've read say that the pipelines on the 6800 are 16x1. The Inquierier had something up a while ago saying they had 8x2 pipelines that could function as 16x1, but that was pretty much dropped once more about the card came out.

Unless by "dual alu" you don't mean 2 texture units / pipeline... In which case, could you explain more?

JigPu

[xtrmeocr]

right i'm not talking about texture units i'm talking about pixel shader units(alu's)

the gf6800 is a 16x1, 16 pipelines with 1 TMU per pipe and 2 shader units per pipe.

[Cyrix_2k]

Check the link now. They pulled the pic & description, but they now have some of the specs listed in table form.

ATi RADEON X800 PRO 256MB DDR AGP8X TVO/DVI (Retail)
Built by ATi
12 parallel pixel pipelines
256-bit quad-channel GDDR3 memory Interface
8 extreme parallel pixel pipelines
6 parallel vertex processing engines

Our Price: $499.00
Temporarily out of stock (ETA:05/07/2004)
We currently do not carry this product and is not orderable.

[DDR-PIII]

Originally posted by Overclocker550
they could get in big trouble, perhaps ati wont let them sell any cards for this. 500MHz core sounds right, although rumors point it at 475

it IS 475Mhz on core and 450 on mem.