ATI's Radeon'R' X1800 XT Breaks 1 GHz Speed Barrier

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ATI's Radeon'R' X1800 XT Breaks 1 GHz Speed Barrier
Wednesday October 26, 8:00 am ET


PORI, FINLAND--(CCNMatthews - Oct. 26, 2005) -
Finnish over-clockers make world GPU history

An independent team of Finnish over-clockers has made world history by over-clocking a graphics processor to engine clock levels above 1 GHz. The record was set on the recently-announced Radeon® X1800 XT graphics processor from ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX:ATY - News; NASDAQ:ATYT - News).

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Noted Finnish over-clockers Sampsa Kurri and Ville Suvanto achieved graphics engine clocks of 1.003 GHz and a memory speed of 1.881 GHz (940.50 MHz DDR (dual data-rate) memory clocks) with maximum system stability and no visual artifacts.

The team, optimistic that higher speeds could ultimately be achieved with the Radeon X1800 XT, attained the record speeds using a custom-built liquid nitrogen cooling system that cooled the graphics processor to minus-80 degrees Celsius. "We're just warming up," joked Kurri. "But we believe that the Radeon X1800 XT has even more over-clocking headroom, and in the coming weeks we expect to achieve higher clock speeds and even greater performance levels."

"It's impressive to see the Radeon X1800 XT architecture achieve 1 GHz core speed and approach 2 GHz memory speed, which far exceeds the specifications of the memory devices," said Stan Ossias, Sr. Product Manager, Desktop Products, ATI Technologies Inc. "Once faster GDDR-4 memory arrives next year, users can expect to see the hidden potential of ATI's innovative new memory controller design complement our powerful shader engines with massive additional memory clock scalability."

A screen shot can be found at: http://www.muropaketti.com/r520_ghz.png .

Radeon X1800 XT's extreme clock-scaling capabilities are made possible by a series of key innovations that include use of the state-of-the-art 90-nanometer semiconductor process technology, an efficient new Ultra-threaded Shader Model 3.0 architecture, and a revolutionary new 512-bit ring-bus memory controller.

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[photonman]

ev ilness

[rburley]

It seems the new ATI's are best for overclockers.
Not so long ago a X1800XT beat 2 7800GTXs in SLI

[nGAGEd55]

It seems the new ATI's are best for overclockers.
Not so long ago a X1800XT beat 2 7800GTXs in SLI

But remember, to do that u'll need a steady supply of dry ice to keep it at a chilly -80C to achieve that type of performance

[Chris]

It seems the new ATI's are best for overclockers.
Not so long ago a X1800XT beat 2 7800GTXs in SLI

Problem is that they used stock SLI 7800GTX's compared to a dry-iced X1800XT...it's not really a fair comparison.

[rburley]

I know its not fair:
only 2 gtx's, it shoulda been 3 to make it more fair

[Scooby_Doo]

well i don't think a single 7800 gtx over clocked could bet 2 ati cards in a crossfire config under the same conditions... Just shows how much more dynamic and adaptive ati cards are/ can be.

[Decotey]

Price is also a factor.
As far as I know the price of the X1800 is gonna be a good R1 000 more than a 7800gtx
And under personal experience, I would take nvidia over ATI anyday/

[rburley]

I tend to be biased towards ATi rather thean nvidia but when u think about it they both really the same, both do the job equally well. From now on i am going to buy the best price vs performance card regardless it ati or nvidia