news on r520 - 26th of May

[mesyn191]

Sayaa: Flipper wasn't based on the 8500, it was made by an outside company called ArtX and ATi bought them out just before Nintendo launched the NGC. IIRC it wasn't even in the 8500's class, it was more of a very fast DX7 product with some nifty register combiners to fake some DX8 class effects with reasonable speed.

[kryptobs2000]

Glad to see this is actually labeled a rumor for once, although to me this does seem more believeable then the 7800 gtx threads, still I think its fake though. Very sad news that ati is making the r520 basically suck to help the xbox 360, what kinda crap is that, I'm really getting tired of all of ati's bs, I hope the 7800 gtx is good. Even if the r520 is a little faster I'd still choose the 7800 if they're that close just cause I actually like nvidia... well.. I don't really like either, more of a lesser of two evils... I wish 3dfx was still around