ATI's Radeon X1800LE to have 12pipes

[FarFarAway]

It wseems ATI are really going to try to get to grips to a sector of the marjket over-run with 6800LE's

IT TURNS out that ATI will end up with at least four versions of cards based on the X1800-R520 core. We talked about X1800 XT, PRO and XL here and we finally managed to confirm some details about Radeon X1800 LE.

This card will be the cheapest version of the R520 core on the market and will be there to fight 6800 LE cards. The Radeon X1800 LE will be twelve pipelines part while its core will work at 450MHz.

The card will use memory working at 900MHz and we hope that ATI won’t price this card too high. Boards should arrive at the same time as all the R520 cards but will be available as it's not problem to make volumes of this quite reasonably clocked chip.

That means that hopefully this chip will be very desirable for those who want "bang for buck" in their Video cards. Maybe the extra pipes will be unlockable??? We'll see

Read all about it

Thanks again to Balilu for the spot :wavey:

 

[NickS]

Well..I have twelve pipes. So, does this mean my card is gonna be the same and or rape the shit out of that...cuz my card is better than the LE, while that's aiming towards the LE.

 

[FarFarAway]

Well..I have twelve pipes. So, does this mean my card is gonna be the same and or rape the shit out of that...cuz my card is better than the LE, while that's aiming towards the LE.

With all due respect to your card - this would most likely be a better performer than the 6800 - plus its 90nm so it will probably clock better too

 

[NickS]

It'll hopefully be cheap

 

[FarFarAway]

It'll hopefully be cheap

Hope so - would mean that quite a few people can upgrade to a decent card at a sensible price

 

[FragTek]

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Hrmmm... Sensibly priced and I might just go back to the dark side!

I'm interested to see how these are going to perform compared to the G70's.