Headline: The return of the King—ATI X1800XT 16pipes reaches 9972 in 3DMark 05

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X1800XT Spec:
Core Code: R520 (TSMC 90nm with Low-k)
Pixel Shader: 16 pipelines
Support hi-quality AVIVO
Support Shader Model 3.0, DirectX 9.0c, etc.
Support H.264 hardware acceleration
GPU Core speed: 625Mhz
Video RAM: GDDR3 512MB
Video RAM speed: 1.5Ghz
RRP: US$ 499 (256MB), US$549 (512MB)
ETA: 08/11/2005

Digital-Info received R520XT, the high-end version of X1800 family from ATI Taiwan today.


Here is a picture of the long-waiting ATI X1800XT, a real big video card


Dual-slot cooling solution is adopter as is showed in this picture


A picture of the back


A picture with the HSF ripped off


Picture of the die, here, we feel the charm of 90nm technology, it seems that the long wait is worthy


136pin FBGA Samsung GDDR3 ram chip


Ram chip model is SAMSUNG K4J52324QC-BJ12(Samsung Official Datasheet )!


Powered by the ASUS A8N32-SLI-Deluxe that will hit the market very soon, the potential of ATI X1800XT is fully revealed



Test Setup:
CPU:AMD Athlon64 3700+(Sandiego)@ 310*9=2.8G

Cooler:Thermalright XP-120

Memory:Corsair TWINXP1024-3200XL*2

M/B:ASUS A8N32SLI-DELUXE

HDD:WD740GD

VGA:ATI X1800 XT(Core:691MHz Mem:1628MHz)

POWER:Seasonic 600W


System power consumption when idle is 276W (power factor is about 0.5, thus the idle power consumption of X1800XT is 138W)


System Power consumption when running 3DMark 05 is 323W (with pf= 0.5, the full-load power consumption of the card is 161W)


ATI Driver


3DMark05 DE9,218When test has forgotten the accent is 2.8G..... Under and so on can again put New Picture


3DMark05 OC9,973


Benchies of single card breaking 10000 will be put up later….

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