Reality's Fringe
03-16-2006, 11:15 PM
Someone posted an interview in the newest Edge magazine in which the ATI guys spill a little about the Revo's power:
"“ATI’s X800 engineering team decided to take the best aspects of R300, improve on them, and spice up the formula a bit by adding a few new features. ATI’s stated goal was to deliver twice the performance of their previous high-end VPU, all without drawing significantly more power, generating an excessive amount of heat, or drastically increasing production costs.”"
Now I'm aware that this is merely the TEAM that worked on the X800, but the fact that the team is working on it may mean that they are closely related(since they are not the same team that created the R300 for the GC)...or it may not. Who knows, but the X800 is nothing to sneeze at.
Yes, I am hoping that the Revo looks as good if not better than the X800. If it manages to squeeze out better visuals I will pop a nasty all over my keyboard. Anandtech benchmarked the X800 at over 66 fps with Far Cry running at 1280*1024 with 4XAA and 8XFSAA, so imagine how that'd look on my Wal-Mart flatscreen CRT.
"“ATI’s X800 engineering team decided to take the best aspects of R300, improve on them, and spice up the formula a bit by adding a few new features. ATI’s stated goal was to deliver twice the performance of their previous high-end VPU, all without drawing significantly more power, generating an excessive amount of heat, or drastically increasing production costs.”"
Now I'm aware that this is merely the TEAM that worked on the X800, but the fact that the team is working on it may mean that they are closely related(since they are not the same team that created the R300 for the GC)...or it may not. Who knows, but the X800 is nothing to sneeze at.
Yes, I am hoping that the Revo looks as good if not better than the X800. If it manages to squeeze out better visuals I will pop a nasty all over my keyboard. Anandtech benchmarked the X800 at over 66 fps with Far Cry running at 1280*1024 with 4XAA and 8XFSAA, so imagine how that'd look on my Wal-Mart flatscreen CRT.