Whoa...

[superfly]

Looks like ATI is getting ready to beat Nvidia to the punch for a second time...www.rage3d.com/#1034776458....


Nice...A 9700 card potentially outfitted with up to 550 mhz DDRII memory,wich would give the card ~35 gig/sec of bandwith to play with...

[Technoid]

Expensive

[DGhost]

and since ATI """pioneered""" another memory technology outside of DDR2, i can't decide what to make of it... or even if it will ever hit market...

[superfly]

Probably the usual 400$ entry fee...Still expensive though,but damn,with bandwith like that it,would probably be a good 50~75% faster in AA and Aniso,even compared to a 9700 pro,which is anything but a slouch in that department....


Kinda makes you wonder what cards will be able to pull off in 2 year's time if the current trend of essentially doubling performance every 12 months continues....Yikes.

[superfly]

Originally posted by DGhost
and since ATI """pioneered""" another memory technology outside of DDR2, i can't decide what to make of it... or even if it will ever hit market...

Heard about that as well,but i believe that GDDR3 will only show up late next year,perhaps with the R400 chip,and essentially that memory is still largely based on DDR II anyhow...