R520: The Never Ending Story?

Vikingod · Oct 5, 2005, 06:50 PM

2005 has hardly been a banner year for ATI. Following on from the success of the R300 generation of products, and obviously moving fast from the removal of the initial R400 project from the roadmap, which was almost certainly partly due to the addition of XBOX 360's "Xenos" graphics processor to the roadmap, ATI moved into a series of products based on the R420 architecture. The architecture itself bore much similarity to R300's, with some changes to the shader capabilities, but with the high end products primarily leaning on the performance of the 130n low-k process and a whole bunch more parallelism.
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Oct 5, 2005, 06:50 PM	#1
Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,197 Rep Power: 112 System Specs	R520: The Never Ending Story? 2005 has hardly been a banner year for ATI. Following on from the success of the R300 generation of products, and obviously moving fast from the removal of the initial R400 project from the roadmap, which was almost certainly partly due to the addition of XBOX 360's "Xenos" graphics processor to the roadmap, ATI moved into a series of products based on the R420 architecture. The architecture itself bore much similarity to R300's, with some changes to the shader capabilities, but with the high end products primarily leaning on the performance of the 130n low-k process and a whole bunch more parallelism. __________ Read More / Source: Beyond3D