ATI will launch its R590 chip early next month as the Radeon X1800 GTO with support for 256MB of graphics memory, according to internal roadmap information surreptitiously slipped [1] to website DailyTech. The data suggests the part is an X1900 with a lower clock speed and an unknown set of features disabled.

X1800 GTO boards will retail for around $279, the source claimed.

The early March timeframe suggests the part will debut at CeBIT or just before. The show, which kicks off on March 9 in Hannover, Germany, is also expected to play host to the launch of Nvidia's next-generation part, the GeForce 7900 GTX.

The site's source also claimed that ATI's next-generation R600 part, expected to be fabbed at 80nm, will ship this coming October. The R590 has also been touted in the past as a 80nm die-shrink of the R580, better known as the basis of the Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition, X1900 XT and X1900 XTX. ®

Related reviews

ATI Radeon X1900 XT and XTX [2]
Nvidia GeForce 7800 GS AGP [3]

Links

1. http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=804
2. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/01/24/review_ati_radeon_x1900_xtx/
3. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/02/02/review_geforce_7800_gs_agp/

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