ATI's roadmap beyond the 9800?

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I haven't been following the bleeding edge vid card wars much lately,
while I know the 9800 series are great cards, does anyone have info
about what ATI's next product refresh will be like, or when it will
happen? The 9700 Pro & 9800 line are already DX9 cards and should be
"good enough" (I hope) for HL2 and Doom3. Is there any indication
that the next product line will offer a breakthrough in features or
performance? Is buying a 9800 now a good choice, or is there
something coming out that is worth waiting for? I hang onto my video
cards a long time so I'd prefer something with a good amount of
future-use capability.
 
Allways ready (and in this case expecting) to be prooved wrong, but I saw it
posted somewhere that ATi were pushing their major product releases back to
2 year intervals. Not sure when this is supposed to start from, but thier
next big thing is supposed to be DX10 compliant. I guess in the mean time
there will maybe be a few more minor releases based on the current GPUs
first (taking my 9800XT as onjly being a sooped up 9700 I wonder when the
policy started).

CrimsonLiar
 
rms said:
R420 should be out in April, somewhere around 2x9700pro performance, so's
the rumour.

rms
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12x1 or even 16x1 pixel render lines... for what the stories tell.
12x1 has the highest probability though. And on a smaller processor
method they will go even. They rode it out this time easily within a
rather "big" size :-)
 
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