ATI R420 "skateboard" spotted

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K" <"kayjaybee said:
Do enlighten us.
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"THERE WILL be two versions of ATI's forthcoming R420 - one one based on
high end memory DDR2. Or let's say GDDR 3 as Nvidia and ATI call it lately.
"

So we're left to guess that other one one isn't. :-p

"Hopefully it runs cooler then DDR 2, but bear in mind that the current
Nvidia 5950 Ultra has its memory passively cooled at 950MHz."

Hopefully it runs cooler than DDR2, even though DDR2 doesn't run too hot.

"ATI is not ready to talk about clock speeds but we guess that it will be
close to 1000MHz, or that's what the firm hopes"

ATI haven't spoken about it, yet the enquirer seems to know that "the firm"
(presumably ATI) are hoping for it to be 1GHz, I wonder how they know this.

"ATI is famous for faster clocked memory able to match the performance of
higher clocked memory cards"

What?

"Cards will be equipped with 256MB or DDR 1 memory 8x32 chips"

Cards will be equipped with 256MB OF DDR1? What happened to the DDR2 stuff?

"We still don't know whether the slower memory version of R420 will have a
chip that runs at the same speed."

Well they seem to be talking about the faster one, but I'd have guessed the
faster one to use GDDR3, from their earlier comments, not DDR1. And which
chip are they referring to? GPU? Since the R420 is the GPU, not the card
(with memory, and everything else), they seem a little confused.

Ben
 
Ben Pope said:
"THERE WILL be two versions of ATI's forthcoming R420 - one one based on
high end memory DDR2. Or let's say GDDR 3 as Nvidia and ATI call it lately.
"

So we're left to guess that other one one isn't. :-p

"Hopefully it runs cooler then DDR 2, but bear in mind that the current
Nvidia 5950 Ultra has its memory passively cooled at 950MHz."

Hopefully it runs cooler than DDR2, even though DDR2 doesn't run too hot.

"ATI is not ready to talk about clock speeds but we guess that it will be
close to 1000MHz, or that's what the firm hopes"

ATI haven't spoken about it, yet the enquirer seems to know that "the firm"
(presumably ATI) are hoping for it to be 1GHz, I wonder how they know this.

"ATI is famous for faster clocked memory able to match the performance of
higher clocked memory cards"

What?

"Cards will be equipped with 256MB or DDR 1 memory 8x32 chips"

Cards will be equipped with 256MB OF DDR1? What happened to the DDR2 stuff?

"We still don't know whether the slower memory version of R420 will have a
chip that runs at the same speed."

Well they seem to be talking about the faster one, but I'd have guessed the
faster one to use GDDR3, from their earlier comments, not DDR1. And which
chip are they referring to? GPU? Since the R420 is the GPU, not the card
(with memory, and everything else), they seem a little confused.
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Ahh, I see. I've had correspondance with Fudo on a couple of occasions and
his grasp of English isn't the greatest but he does know his stuff perhaps
he just fails to get it accross sometimes. Anyway his English is better then
my Serbo-Croat :)

K
 
K" <"kayjaybee said:
Ahh, I see. I've had correspondance with Fudo on a couple of occasions and
his grasp of English isn't the greatest but he does know his stuff perhaps
he just fails to get it accross sometimes. Anyway his English is better
then my Serbo-Croat :)
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Point taken. My experiences with Serbo-Croat are that I know somebody who
is one. Cool guy.

Anyway, that's what editors are for... it seems the enquirer likes to be the
first with the news... or certainly early, maybe they deem editors as a
hindrance to getting the story early.

Ben
 
Thomas Andersson said:
I found this bit funny:

""Skateboard" is the code name that these Canadian fellows have for this
card, just wait and see what name it uses for R423 GDDR3. It will be related
to snow as well"

Since when is skateboards related to snow??
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It's a type; they probably meant "snew".

Jon
 
Ahh, I see. I've had correspondance with Fudo on a couple of occasions and
his grasp of English isn't the greatest but he does know his stuff perhaps
he just fails to get it accross sometimes. Anyway his English is better then
my Serbo-Croat :)
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There is no such thing as a Serbo-Croatian, there never was. Trust me,
I'm Croatian.
 
Point taken. My experiences with Serbo-Croat are that I know somebody who
is one. Cool guy.
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There isn't a Serbo-Croat nationalty, you've got something confused.
 
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