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Radeon 9900 updates / news
This article was written by rage3d, so give them the credit. It was written on July 18, 2003.
"ACCORDING TO OUR RELIABLE sources, the R360, meant to be the basis of ATI's nextgen high end card and rip the performance crown from the NV35 has taped out. The baby bounced into life more than a fortnight ago.
This chip is meant to work at over 400MHz for both core and memory, and ATI is shifting to its next development phase, meaning the chip will be ready to hip and to hop sometime in September.
R360 is still a nameless chip as it remains to be seen whether it will be called Radeon 9800 something or even the Radeon 9900.
Expect anything on this "whether" front. The NV35, Geforce FX 5900 Ultra is not so much greater a performer than the Radeon 9800 PRO, R350 - and people close to ATI believe that it won't be difficult for the R360 to outperform the FX 5900 Ultra.
This will leave Nvidia with a gap where it could lose its performance leadership again for at least two to three months, until its mystical NV40 arrives. Even then, ATI reckons it has an answer codenamed Loki, and also more prosaically as the R420, targeted for the NV40."
This article was written by rage3d, so give them the credit. It was written on July 18, 2003.
"ACCORDING TO OUR RELIABLE sources, the R360, meant to be the basis of ATI's nextgen high end card and rip the performance crown from the NV35 has taped out. The baby bounced into life more than a fortnight ago.
This chip is meant to work at over 400MHz for both core and memory, and ATI is shifting to its next development phase, meaning the chip will be ready to hip and to hop sometime in September.
R360 is still a nameless chip as it remains to be seen whether it will be called Radeon 9800 something or even the Radeon 9900.
Expect anything on this "whether" front. The NV35, Geforce FX 5900 Ultra is not so much greater a performer than the Radeon 9800 PRO, R350 - and people close to ATI believe that it won't be difficult for the R360 to outperform the FX 5900 Ultra.
This will leave Nvidia with a gap where it could lose its performance leadership again for at least two to three months, until its mystical NV40 arrives. Even then, ATI reckons it has an answer codenamed Loki, and also more prosaically as the R420, targeted for the NV40."
