Reckoning on it being the "most powerful graphics card".
October 7, 2005
[This unedited press release is made available courtesy of Game Developer and its partnership with notable game PR-related resource Games Press]
Author: GeCube
Info-Tek Press Release
For Immediate Release
Taipei, Taiwan, October 7, 2005--Info-Tek Corporation, the supplier of the world's leading graphics card brand GECUBETM, has announced the release of the new GECUBETM RADEON X1800 graphics card. Utilising ATI's newest R520 architecture, the GECUBETM RADEON X1800XT graphics card propels the gaming industry into another visual dimension, featuring a 625HMz core clock speed yielding 1.5GHz memory clock speed and on-board 512MB GDDR3 memory. Both the GECUBE RADEON X1300 and GECUBE RADEON X1600 will be released simultaneously with the world's most powerful graphics card, the RADEON X1800.
The highly anticipated release of the GECUBE RADEON X1800 with ATI CrossFireTM Platform and Multi-VPU Technology support, will introduce cutting-edge technology plus an entirely new 512MB memory platform to unlock the potential of 3D gaming. The powerful 512MB GDDR3 memory of the RADEON X1800 lets users experience unparalleled game elements and intensely realistic colours at higher resolutions like 1920x1440 and 2048x1536. The doubling of memory also enhances visual quality and speeds up responsiveness without affecting performance.
The GECUBE RADEON X1800 512MB memory also affects game developers, whom may now set the bar for visual performance higher than before for next-generation games currently in production. Memory-intensive processes such as storing high definition textures, concurrent access to multiple high definition source maps, and techniques for multiple rendering targets will now be obsolete. Marking a momentum shift in the gaming industry, 512MB memory will now allow developers to concentrate on other gaming facets and worry less about memory usage.
GECUBETM X1800 Technologies
The World's Most Advanced 3D Technology: Enjoy smooth shader-rich gaming with the most advanced 3D arsenal including: a 90-nanometer GPU, an ultra-threaded core 3D architecture, and 512-bit ring-bus memory controller.
AvivoTM from ATI Technologies Inc.: Avivo includes hardware and software technologies that refine video capture and playback, and greatly improve display quality such as 64 times the number of colors currently available in current PCs backed by unprecedented 10-bit processing via Avivo's display engine.
CrossFireTM Platform support: CrossFire employs multiple RADEON visual processing units (VPUs) working together in your PC. In other words, you may combine RADEON graphics cards on one motherboard to speed up your gaming prowess with "supertiling," a high-performance GPU sharing that evenly divides the processing and graphics rendering workload between the dual graphics cards.
Dual DVI: The GECUBE RADEON X1800 graphics card supports 16 pixel shader pipelines and 6 vertex engines for extreme 3D image processing that provide a smooth and refined image display and enhanced colour saturation. The RADEON X1800 also supports dual DVI for a more detailed picture quality and enhanced functions.
Shader Model 3.0 Support: Brand new pixel and vertex shaders are grouped together to create realistic lighting and shading for 3D gaming in order to enhance gaming backgrounds and portray convincing gaming situations.
Specification
Product Name GC-X1800XLD-VID3
GC-X1800XTD-VIE3
ASIC
R520XL (90nm)
R520XT (90nm)
Core/Memory
500MHz/1.0GHz
625MHz/1.5GHz (Dynamic)
Pixel Pipeline
16
16
Shader Model
3.0
3.0
Memory Bus
256-bit (512-bit Internal Ring Bus)
256-bit (512-bit Internal Ring Bus)
Memory Type
GDDR3/256MB
GDDR3
512MB/256MB
Interface
PCI Express x16
PCI Express x16
TV-Out
S/HDTV-out
S/HDTV-out
DVI
Dual DVI
Dual DVI
D-Sub
Yes (By Dongle)
Yes (By Dongle)
Video-In
Yes (AVIVO)
Yes (AVIVO)
HDTV
HDTV by S to YPbPr cable ( default included)
HDTV by S to YPbPr cable ( default included)
Multi-VPU Support
Crossfire ready
Crossfire ready
Cooling
ATI Original Fan
ATI Original Fan
Product Name GC-RX1600PG2-D3
GC-RX1600XTG3-D3
GC-RX1300-D3
GC-RX1300GE2-D3
GC-RX1300PG2-D3
ASIC
RV530PRO (90nm)
RV530XT (90nm)
RV515LE (90nm)
RV515LE (90nm)
RV515PRO (90nm)
Core/Memory
500/780MHz
590MHz/1.38GHz
450/500Mhz
450/533Mhz
600/800Mhz
Pixel Pipeline
12
12
4
4
4
Shader Model
3.0
3.0
3.0
3.0
3.0
Memory Bus
128-bit (256-bit Internal Ring Bus)
128-bit (256-bit Internal Ring Bus)
128-bit
64-bit
128-bit
Memory Type
DDR2
256MB
GDDR3
256MB
DDR/256MB
DDR2/256MB
DDR2/256MB
Interface
PCI Express x16
PCI Express x16
PCI Express x16
PCI Express x16
PCI Express x16
TV-Out
S/HDTV-out
S/HDTV-out
S/HDTV-out
S/HDTV-out
S/HDTV-out
DVI
Dual DVI
Dual DVI
Yes
Yes
Yes
D-Sub
Yes (By Dongle)
Yes (By Dongle)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Video-In
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
HDTV
HDTV by S to YPbPr cable ( default included)
HDTV by S to YPbPr cable ( default included)
HDTV by S to YPbPr cable ( Optional)
HDTV by S to YPbPr cable ( Optional)
HDTV by S to YPbPr cable (Default Included)
Multi-VPU Support
Crossfire ready
Crossfire ready
Crossfire ready
(Software)
Crossfire ready
(Software)
Crossfire ready
(Software)
Cooling
Integrated Fan
Integrated Fan
Passive
Passive
Integrated Fan
About Info-Tek and GECUBE
GECUBE is a brand name, property and trademark of Info-Tek Corporation. Products under this brand name include graphics cards and computer peripheral hardware products.
Info-Tek Corp., established in 1990, has been devoted to contract manufacturing services for motherboards and interface cards. Four main production centers have been established both in Taiwan and China. The Multimedia Business Unit of Info-Tek is dedicated to the development, marketing and sales of the GECUBE brand name and products along with its own independent R&D team. The supporting marketing and sales network provides total multimedia solutions. For more information, please visit us at http://www.gecube.com.
n Media Contact:
Ms. Sarah Chard [email protected] Tel: 0870 420 8130
ATI and RADEON are trademarks or registered trademarks of ATI Technologies Inc. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.
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