i know you all look at ati's monster..the 9700 pro and think..thats what i want for xmas..well i'm here to tell you to wait!..check it out..
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6557
ATI HAS GOT SOME new plans for the new year.
Its Chief Operating Officer (COO), Dave Orton, is the chap that sure made a difference in ATI from the time he joined two a half years ago when his company ArtX was bought by the Canadian graphics firm.
We spoke about financial results of ATI since by its financial logic it started its Q1 2003 on the first December and some things needed to be concluded.
What we heard from Dave Orton is that ATI is very optimistic after the staffers saw NV30 at Comdex and of course he uses every possible weasel language finesse to avoid the words banned by ATI – the Lexmarked Geforce and Nvidia.
We know that ATI is working on a new, upcoming refresh that should come soon enough to compete with NV30 -- its R350 part with a hint that this card will be on market in the Spring.
As for the R350, ATI said that it is playing with the Radeon 9700 PRO with DDR II memory so we canexpect this kind of memory on R350 parts while GDER 3 is new graphics RAM that ATI preaches will find its place in some of the future products introduced by ATI in next year.
We assume that R350 will stick with DDR II for now and if the firm decides to use 256 bit memory interface we could have some seriously broad bandwidth with these cards.
As for R400 – the completely new core -- ATI promised us that we will see this card as soon as June/July giving Nvidia one more trouble to bear as the R400 could bring some interesting new stuff in computer graphics while Nvidia is struggling to ship its NV30 by February or even later, we now understand.
Still, ATI needs to face a process problem, how to make a successful 0.13µ (micron) graphics processor unit (GPU) – that Nvidia managed with the NV30.
If ATI continues its trend to keep its promises, Nvidia might have a very serious competitor.
By January, things should be much clearer, never mind when Sumer is i-cumin in. µ
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/20...1205017630.htm
ATI has been doing well lately. Their Radeon 9700 GPU is clearly the fastest GPU on the market, and the upcoming GeForce FX GPU won't be widely available until next March. By that time--or shortly after--ATI should have the R350 part out, which should be fabbed on a 130 nm process. ATI's COO, Dave Orton, has stated that the R400 will definitely be out by next summer. The R350 will probably use DDR-II, and the R400 may use the next-generation GDER 3 memory standard. GDER 3 is designed for graphics applications, and ATI may be the first company to use it. The R400 will be a new core and should also be fabbed on a 130 nm process. The R350 will probably be equal in speed or slightly faster than the GeForce FX. The extent to which ATI will be able to dominate the high-end of graphics technology will be determined in large part by how quickly Nvidia can get back to 6 month product introductions. Essentially, the GeForce FX will come out a year after the GeForce 4 was introduced. During the past 5 years Nvidia has risen to dominance by rigorously maintaining 6 month product introductions, a feat competitors found difficult or impossible to match. Now the situation seems almost reversed: ATI has acclimatized itself to 6 month product introductions and Nvidia is struggling to keep up.
For the lazy sho'ers...
Current king: ATI 9700 pro
King around jan-feb: Nvidia Geforce FX
King very soon after that: ATI R350 (no name given yet)
King in summer: ATI R400 (no name given yet)
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