AnandTech's R520, RV530 and RV515 Pre-NDA: 16 pipes, 16 shaders

[Karma]

It speaks for itself:

AnandTech's R520, RV530 and RV515 Pre-NDA Extravaganza (http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2532)

Responsibility is being able to say when you are wrong.....

[Ugly n Grey]

wrong about what Karma?
interesting read I have to wonder how they can release so much data and not have a problem. The lower end cards are also interesting....
thanks for posting!

[Karma]

wrong about what Karma?
interesting read I have to wonder how they can release so much data and not have a problem. The lower end cards are also interesting....
thanks for posting!

As mentioned in the article, they are not under NDA until tomorrow. From then on they aren't allowed to post anything they receive from ATi (in the next few days/weeks they receive the R520 & start benchmarking it).

[Hicks]

Cool.

Iam thinking how are ATI going to keep the costs down with 700mhz 512mb memory on there card?

[LowRun]

If Anand got it right the pricing is stupid. From X1800 Pro to X1800 XL it will cost you 50$ and you'll get 50MHz more on core, 256MB more ram running 125MHz faster, when it will cost 100$ to only gain 50MHz on core and 75MHz on ram going from X1800 XL to X1800 XT. Honestly, i can see no reason to buy X1800 Pro or X1800 XT.

[Tim]

This looks bad IMO, the price is what? 600 bucks!!

You can get a GTX for $450! Even if the performance is slightly better I'm not even considering buying it :stick:

[C Stat B]

X1600 looks good IMO, which is one positive. 40W Power Consumption for the PRO is cool. Hopefully they'll only be about $150/£100 at launch.

[Dillusion]

Pipelines arent everything. ATi could have a 16 pipe card that smashes nvidias 24 pipes. Anandtech stated in their 7800GTX review how little extra pipes are doing compared to new architecture and clock speeds.

[z24]

Thats not look too good for ATi if there is another NV card waiting in the Wind just to catch the little 16pipe Red Bird from Canada :p:

Well thats just hope the R520 really have 1.33 time more power on its pipe or Shader :D Other wise i don't see any reason not to go for XFX 7800GTX OC :cool:

[Comp-Freak]

Link is now down?

[Karma]

Thats not look too good for ATi if there is another NV card waiting in the Wind just to catch the little 16pipe Red Bird from Canada :p:

nVidia cancelled releasing a "7800 Ultra" a few weeks ago.

[rick_fx]

Link works fine here Comp-freak :)

[Jort]

This looks bad IMO, the price is what? 600 bucks!!

You can get a GTX for $450! Even if the performance is slightly better I'm not even considering buying it :stick:

and what was the prize of the 7800gtx when it just hit the streets :rolleyes:

[zakelwe]

The nvidia 7800GTX card is not a true 24 pipe card all the way through, so judging by pure number of pipelines it's getting more and more difficult as we go more and more into shading. True a 24 pipe card would have the beating of a 4 pipe card but really what you need to know is how much shading a card can do and output per second, and nobody, who knows will say at the moment.

Religiously quoting pipelines is like someone saying the Intel Prescott is better than the AMD FX because it does more GIGAHERTZ !

Lets see what happens with the benches. Up to now the only quotes we have seen is 3dmark 05 results and they are terrible for judging cards, I'd swap you all the 05 results in the world for 3dmark03 GT2, GT3 and most specifically GT4 nature. 3dmark04 GT4 nature is still a very good test of a video card for todays and the next 6-12 months games.

Regards

Andy

[Comp-Freak]

Link works fine here Comp-freak :)Indeed, I can't open it with IE, but I can with FF, strange ;)

If AnandTech is right about the prices, I don't see a reason to buy a X1800XT, just OC your XL and you've saved $100 :rolleyes:

[Vapor]

Or OC your XT to even higher clocks...it's justifiable in many minds.

[Arkangyl]

For the XT vs. XL bit; I'd assume the XT's are the better speed bin (FX-55/57 vs. 3700/4000+) and thus will OC beyond what the XL can do. But for stock the XL will probably be fine.

Someone said the NDA ends tomorrow? does that mean benchmarks tomorrow or has Anand not yet recieved the cards?

[ZX7891]

nVidia cancelled releasing a "7800 Ultra" a few weeks ago.

they cancelled the 7800ultra but they can always rename it ;)

[Stuperman]

Someone said the NDA ends tomorrow? does that mean benchmarks tomorrow or has Anand not yet recieved the cards?

the NDA starts tomorrow, so I guess that means that review cards ship tomorrow or thye next day.....

p.s. I vote wait and see, the only way that the R520 is an X850+sm3.0 would be that all the engineers and executives at ATI really hate thier jobs.

[Karma]

Hint:

If the R520XT has a 650MHz core (17% higher than the X850XT), but runs 35% faster than the X850XT, what changed?