New Radeons on the way?

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The Inquirer has some interesting information on upcoming ATI graphics products. According to their sources, ATI is planning to unleash the Radeon X850 series next year. These high-end cards will be based on a 0.13-micron R423 graphics core and could sport a dual-slot cooling solution reminiscent of Abit's OTES and the dreaded Dustbuster.

The fastest of them all, the Radeon X850XT Platinum edition is clocked to not that an impressive 540MHz core and 590/1180MHz GDDR 3 memory. The card has two DVI slots for two TFTs.

The second in the X850 hall of fame, the Radeon X850 XT, is clocked to 520MHz core and 540, 1080MHz memory and just like the X850XT PE has sixteen pipelines.

The third solution is called the Radeon X850 PRO and it's clocked to 520MHz core too, and 540, 1080MHz memory but will come with twelve pipelines.

It will launch these cards on the first of December early in the morning but expects to have those cards on the market in early January 2005.

Source: The Inquirer