3Digest, August 2005:
ATI RADEON X850 XT PE 256MB DDR3 (540/1180 MHz) PCI-E
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This GPU is presented by ASUS EAX850XT Platinum 256MB PCI-E card.
Features:
- ATI RADEON X850 XT GPU (16 pixel and 6 vertex pipelines), 540 MHz clock;
- Samsung 1.6ns BGA chips, 590 (1180) MHz default clock rate, 256-bit bus;
- Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode is 8640 megapixels/sec and 8640 megatexels/sec.
Theoretical and analytical videocard reviews, containing functional analysis of ATI graphics cards
By the end of the month the product costs $480-500, supports DirectX 9.0c. It's almost the most powerful ATI card for the AGP segment today.
PCX x16 interface, 256 MB GDDR3 SDRAM in 8 chips.
On August 10, 2005 the latest drivers from ATI were 6.553 (CATALYST 5.7) for Windows XP. CATALYST 5.8 was released a bit later, so it wasn't used for testing.
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