Posted on Friday, September 15 2006 @ 2:23 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
DailyTech received more details about ATI's upcoming RV570 GPU.
ATI’s upcoming RV570 GPU is expected to arrive as the Radeon X1950 Pro with 12 pipelines and 36 pixel shaders. The ATI product advisory update states that board partners are currently receiving RV570XT ASICs. Final RV570XT ASICs is the A12 stepping. Reference boards are available from ATI beginning September 19th, 2006. ATI’s Radeon X1950 Pro reference board is clocked at 580 MHz and 1.40 GHz for core and memory respectively.
HDCP support for Radeon X1950 Pro graphics cards is optional and not required by ATI, though the reference board is HDCP compliant. ATI add-in board partners can purchase the necessary EEPROMs with preprogrammed PID keys directly from ATI if it wishes to implement HDCP compliance on its Radeon X1950 Pro products. The product advisory update makes no mention if built by ATI Radeon X1950 Pro products will have HDCP compliance or not.
More info over
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