ATI's R420XT is the Olympic Snowboard

ATI's R420XT is the Olympic Snowboard

Around 500/1000 MHz


By Fuad Abazovic: Tuesday 02 March 2004, 11:44

I SAID THAT the DDR 1 version of ATI cards with R420 chip is
codenamed Skateboard here, and now it's the right time to reveal what
the Olympic Snowboard codename means.
This is the most detailed batch of information that we've manage to
get since this card is getting close to its announcement, but as we
said it most likely won't be announced at SnowBIT as previously
planned.

R420XT is the high end card – the fastest one in the class - where XT
stands for extreme performance and it will rock at around 500MHz for
the GPU and around 1000MHz for the memory. Bear in mind that those are
preliminary results that might vary. This means that ATI plans to get
the cards on these speeds.

The printed circuit board (PCB) will be a 10 layer design and the
memory on this high end card will be GDDR 3 8Mx32 8 pieces of memory.
The card is AGP 4X/ 8X. ATI is a Canadian company and most of the
people like skiing, snow and hockey unlike yours truly, that ended up
damaged when I tried to drink too much beer ski.

The NDA preview of the cards will be at CeBIT so please stand in line
to sign up to see them. µ

"R420" <radeonr420 RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:51488ce2.0403021246.53c673a5@posting.google.com...
 > ATI's R420XT is the Olympic Snowboard
 >
 > Around 500/1000 MHz
 >
 >
 > By Fuad Abazovic: Tuesday 02 March 2004, 11:44
 >
 > I SAID THAT the DDR 1 version of ATI cards with R420 chip is
 > codenamed Skateboard here, and now it's the right time to reveal what
 > the Olympic Snowboard codename means.
 > This is the most detailed batch of information that we've manage to
 > get since this card is getting close to its announcement, but as we
 > said it most likely won't be announced at SnowBIT as previously
 > planned.
 >
 > R420XT is the high end card - the fastest one in the class - where XT
 > stands for extreme performance and it will rock at around 500MHz for
 > the GPU and around 1000MHz for the memory. Bear in mind that those are
 > preliminary results that might vary. This means that ATI plans to get
 > the cards on these speeds.
 >
 > The printed circuit board (PCB) will be a 10 layer design and the
 > memory on this high end card will be GDDR 3 8Mx32 8 pieces of memory.
 > The card is AGP 4X/ 8X. ATI is a Canadian company and most of the
 > people like skiing, snow and hockey unlike yours truly, that ended up
 > damaged when I tried to drink too much beer ski.
 >
 > The NDA preview of the cards will be at CeBIT so please stand in line
 > to sign up to see them. µ


The FX5950 can easily overclock to 500/1000.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->