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n°486276
06-20-2002 at 06:00:14 AM

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<b>ATi R300 Specifications (HARDWARE)</b>
By Brian Neal
Wednesday, June 19, 2002 10:00 AM EDT
Thanks to xbitlabs for posting about this site, which has published several slides from a presentation by ATi regarding the upcoming R300 and RV250 3D accelerators. The slides apparently confirm a number of previously rumored specifications, including the R300's 8 pixel pipelines and 350 MHz core clockrate. It is also said that the R300 will feature comprehensive support for DirectX 9 and it is listed as a DX9 part in the roadmap on the first page. A full list of specifications from the R300 slides follows:

Peak T&L performance - 150 Million Triangles/Second
350 MHz Core Clockrate
400+ MHz memory clockrate (DDR SDRAM)
8 rendering pipelines with 2 TMUs each (16 TMUs is a DirectX9 requirement)
Improved Pixel and Vertex Shaders (4 Shader Pipelines?)
Hydravision
0.15µ Production
Vertex Shaders 2.06, Pixel Shaders 2.0. Some sources claim there will be 4-pipeline vertex shader
Full DirectX9 compatibility
High quality anti-aliasing and new more complex higher order surface support
HyperZ III
Hardware MPEG-1/2/4 and DVD decoding (hardware motion compensation and DCT/IDCT).

The roadmap seems to indicate a production timeframe of Q2 2002, though this is obviously not the shipping timeframe. According to xbitlabs, the R300 is scheduled to ship in August.


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n°486313
06-20-2002 at 08:43:55 PM

don't tell me everyone already know that.


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n°486316
06-20-2002 at 09:12:58 PM

i found out two days ago :smile:

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n°486321
06-20-2002 at 09:24:48 PM

dude. :tongue:

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n°486326
06-20-2002 at 09:47:43 PM

just out of curiousity...are you planning on getting an R300?

:eek: <b>Who fixed <font color=red>ATI</font color=red>'s leaky faucet??</b> :eek:

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n°486327
06-20-2002 at 09:55:42 PM

....cause you may want to look into a NV30. Looks like a really great product, although it'll probably cost a load of money.

What's the deal with lampshades, I mean it's a lamp, why would you want a shade? :smile:

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n°486331
06-20-2002 at 11:40:06 PM

well i'm looking to replace my Geforce2 Ultra

i think we just have to wait for the benchmarks

NV30 v R300 v Matrox Par??

i'm not really loyal to Nvidia, i'm going to buy the fastest card, although that could well be the NV30

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n°486333
06-21-2002 at 12:04:20 AM

Yeah that's what I'm waiting for too. Once I see some benchies, I'll decide. Also, I'm not loyal to nVidia either, it's just that their "rumoured" specs seem much better than ATi's.

What's the deal with lampshades, I mean it's a lamp, why would you want a shade? :smile:

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n°486348
06-21-2002 at 04:18:40 AM

If i will have the cash in time, yes, this would be a possibility.

Note: I am not a nvidia fan, i don't play doom-like games, CS, Quak and whatsoever. I prefer RPG and Adventure games. Moreover i use video capturing, video editing, DVD and DivX plus TV tuner.

Finally i think for those kind of utilization, ATI used to have better quality images, better TV tuner, better hardware mpeg2 compression/decompression (hardware mpeg4 integrated with the R300) and more up to date GPU features associated to good 3D performances however.


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n°486358
06-21-2002 at 07:11:43 AM

why did you say that?!?


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n°486393
06-21-2002 at 07:56:22 PM

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why did you say that?!?


Is there something wrong with what I said?

What's the deal with lampshades, I mean it's a lamp, why would you want a shade? :smile:

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n°486490
06-23-2002 at 08:53:27 AM

.15 micron at 350mhz, wonder how they are pulling that off?

Chuck232
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n°486493
06-23-2002 at 02:39:18 PM

Not too hard, GF4 Ti4600 is running at 300 and can usually go to 325MHz. Then a couple extra core enhancements and a better fan, and POW! 350MHz it is.

What's the deal with lampshades, I mean it's a lamp, why would you want a shade? :smile:

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n°486494
06-23-2002 at 03:00:50 PM

you are funny, man. :lol:
you stole the R300 specs for your GF4. LoL.

8235k8hta
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n°486495
06-23-2002 at 03:05:50 PM

haha. have you a link to provide to your nvidia "rumoured" specs?

Chuck232
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n°486496
06-23-2002 at 03:11:47 PM

Wha?? No Galvin or whoever was asking how ATi was gonna get a .15um core to 350MHz and I said that nvVidia already has the GF4 cores to 300MHz plus a bit of overclocking will get them to 325MHz usually, so why can't ATi. Then if ATi adds some core enhancements, it'll probably reach 350MHz. I feel like I'm repeating myself here!

What's the deal with lampshades, I mean it's a lamp, why would you want a shade? :smile:

Chuck232
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