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RV380 Sighting At Intel Developer Forum

edited October 2003 in Science & Tech
Each year, Intel hosts the Intel Developer Forum, where computer hardware manufacturers get together to publically showcase their new technology. This year, IDF was held in Taipei, Taiwan on October 13th and 14th.

Working in conjunction with many leading hardware manufacturers, Intel showcased their new 775-pin Prescott CPU running on an unreleased Socket T motherboard paired with ATI's first mainstream PCI-Express video adapter, the RV380.

Details surrounding the RV380 are sketchy at the moment, but we do know that the RV380 will be ATI's highest performing main-stream video card ever built. The RV380 will have 128 MB of DDR-I memory and will be built around ATI's Low-K Di-Electric 0.13 micron process. At a minimum, 2 versions of the RV380 will be available to consumers; one that utilizes the AGP8x bus connector and one that utilizes the next-generation PCI-Express 16x bus connector.

The RV380 engineering sample showcased during the IDF demonstration was using 128 MB's of Samsung GC2A 2.8ns DDR SDRAM, which is rated for 357 MHz (1000/2.8). Knowing ATI's history of placing high-speed DDR RAM on their video cards and underclocking it, if ATI decides to match high-speed 2.8ns RAM @ 357 MHz (714 MHz DDR) with a high-clocked core (500 MHz or higher) and a 128 or 256-bit memory bus, consumers will be seeing a mainstream video card finally capable of high resolution Anti-Aliasing & Anisotropic Filtering with only a small performance hit. Now that's something to look forward to.

Although no apparent release date has been set for the RV380, rumour has it that RV380-based cards will be available early next year.
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