Many expected ATI to show off their GPUs in development at CeBIT 2002 but were disappointed by the canadian based company. The Inquirer now speculates that this was due to ATI concentrating in their integrated chipsets A3 & A4 similiar to Nvidia nForce products. Furthermore it is to be expected that ATI is targeting Nvidia's NV30 chipset - which is rumoured not to be entitled GeForce 5 - with their R300 GPU as a competitive product. Maybe Taiwanese CompuTex in June 2002 will be chosen as a presentation platform for R300. Additionally to add to the confusion of R300 specifications some websites claim to have learned of them. As little is known about the true capabilities of the new ATI GPU we advise that you'll take these with a on of salt. If you're interested nonetheless hit read more...
Preliminary R300 specs as seen on various websites: 0.15 micron technology 350 Mhz core speed future 0.13 micron manufacturing process for 400 Mhz core speed 8 rendering pipelines textures processed per pipeline: 2 or 4 800 Mhz DDR memory speed 12,6 GB/s bandwidth 2 TruForm processing units HydraVision support DirectX 9 support (PixelShader 2.0, displacement mapping...) HyperZ 3 256 MB of memory Pixel fillrate 2.8 mil Texel fillrate 8.4 mil Support for 256 Bit memory These specs are rumoured and in no way official!
Preliminary R300 specs as seen on various websites: 0.15 micron technology 350 Mhz core speed future 0.13 micron manufacturing process for 400 Mhz core speed 8 rendering pipelines textures processed per pipeline: 2 or 4 800 Mhz DDR memory speed 12,6 GB/s bandwidth 2 TruForm processing units HydraVision support DirectX 9 support (PixelShader 2.0, displacement mapping...) HyperZ 3 256 MB of memory Pixel fillrate 2.8 mil Texel fillrate 8.4 mil Support for 256 Bit memory These specs are rumoured and in no way official!
