ATI debuts Radeon X800 XT

today introduced the Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition graphics card. Leveraging superior shader technology and offering improved rendering, the company says Mac users can now experience high-definition gaming at even faster frame rates. The Radeon X800 XT is single PCI-slot solution that doubles the performance of the previous generation graphic cards, offering Power Mac G5 a solution that supports high resolution monitors such as Apple's 30-inch Cinema HD Display. The new GPU offers a host of new features, including dual digital display connections, (one Dual Link DVI and one ADC port), 16 pixel pipelines, six vertex pipelines and 256MB of GDDR3 memory. The new card will be available for $500.

"The real-time subdivision surface engine that is at the core of modo(TM) derives significant benefit from the increased acceleration of the RADEON X800 XT," said Brad Peebler, President, Luxology. "modo users building complex models will gain an extra level of creative freedom from the powerful combination of modo and the X800 XT."




The card will be available through standard Mac retail channels as well as ATI's Website. ATI will also show case the card Macworld Expo (Booth 2217).



"With the RADEON X800 XT, ATI has significantly impacted the user experience for two critical segments of the Mac market, gaming and content creation," said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President, PC Business Unit, ATI. "Mac users can perform the full gamut of tasks without any diminishing returns in performance."

by MacNN Staff