ATI Launches X1000 Family of GPUs

Techtree News Staff, Oct 06, 2005 1312 hrs IST

ATI Technologies has launched the Radeon X1000 series, a top-to-bottom family of graphics processors.

ATI Technologies has launched the Radeon X1000 series, a new family of graphics processors. The company maintains that the top-to-bottom family built using 90-nanometer semiconductor fabrication technology, delivers better performance and image quality as compared to previous GPUs.

The Radeon X1000 has a GPU that targets a wide range of people and hopes to suit the needs of those just getting into the gaming mode, or those who are interested in editing photos and videos.

ATI maintains that customers who want all of the features and capabilities of the Radeon X1800 and Radeon X1600 but who are on a budget, would do well to go in for the Radeon X1300 which is priced at $79.

The GPUs feature ultra-threaded shader architecture to run today's shader-intense games, and a new memory architecture that makes the GPUs efficient. Graphics cards powered by Radeon X1000-series GPUs, will be available from ATI and its board partners.

Radeon X1800 and Radeon X1300 cards are shipping immediately, and Radeon X1600 cards will be shipped in October and November.

Rich Heye, vice president and general manager - desktop discrete products, ATI Technologies, said, "The Radeon X1000 family of GPUs was designed to be the best and it is the best. In terms of gaming performance, it is the fastest; in terms of image quality, it is the best looking; in terms of features, it is the richest."

USER COMMENTS

is this card comes another type like pci

by sardarji, chennai, on Feb 11, 2006 12:29 AM, Report abuse Reply

are the X1800XL and availalable in India? if yes, what are their prices?

by godofall, Chennai, on Feb 05, 2006 05:32 PM, Report abuse Reply

Tired of NSISTing. ATi has been THE company that started the hi-end graphics card market and the time has come for it to accelerate itself in the card market. By the way, imagine the output of two X1800s stripped across a Crossfire array! The advantage of ATi Crossfire ready cards is that it is chipset neutral. the CrsFre array can ALSO be setup on a Intel 975X board as it has 2 PCIe X16 slots, Newer VIA and ULi (and ATi ofcourse) are CrossFire supportive. So, those Intel-o-philic geeks aren't let down by the Gfx subsystem

by Tarun Raju, Hyderabad, on Jan 17, 2006 01:56 PM, Report abuse Reply

Check out da noo x1900 wid 48 pixel shaders and a greater clock speed.Defeats da geforce 7800gtx.

by atavistic, n delhi, on Jan 01, 2006 07:19 PM, Report abuse Reply

NSIST ON NVIDIA!!!! nothing else to say!

by Zakariya, Cochin, on Oct 07, 2005 02:12 PM, Report abuse Reply

NVIDIA IS A BETTER CHOICE I THINK SO THEN ATI, BIG GEFORCE 7800GTX 256MB ------ VALUE FOR MONEY CARD

by RONALD, CHENNAI, on Oct 07, 2005 12:19 PM, Report abuse Reply

impossible to find the product, no opinion to be made....this range of pdts is a ghost

by xxxxxxxxx, xxxx, on Oct 07, 2005 01:05 AM, Report abuse Reply

good news, better if released earlier than 7800gtx, well, better late than never...... hope for a big hole in da pockets.....you gamers........

by naveenchaudhary, meerut, on Oct 06, 2005 03:47 PM, Report abuse Reply

The X1800XT 512mb Dual DVI AVIVO is released here (UK) in 5 days, and is priced at £470

by Liam, Liverpool, on Oct 07, 2005 12:18 AM, Report abuse

What exactly does this do? And if it upgrades or makes a computer run more efficiently than make it for Windows computers.

by Cody, Moorhead, on Oct 06, 2005 11:57 PM, Report abuse Reply

What? You must be joking, right? It's a graphics card. It's *supposed* to beat out the Geforce 7800 GTX series (the x1800 is) without having to use multiple graphics cards. And it will be available for Windows PC's only at first, but will make it to Macs soon... Please tell me you just didn't understand the article

by Jeff, Greencastle, on Oct 07, 2005 12:16 AM, Report abuse

Sweetness

by Anonymous, Grafton, on Oct 06, 2005 10:39 PM, Report abuse Reply

As stated above, the X1300 is priced only $79.00 :)

by Gadget, Chicago, on Oct 06, 2005 08:21 PM, Report abuse Reply

yeah any idea what the pricing is for these??????????

by vinnie, prince albert, on Oct 06, 2005 08:15 PM, Report abuse Reply