ATI Radeon X700 Pro

The fact that the performance of products initially positioned as mainstream was an order of magnitude superior to all middle-end solutions released earlier and was worthy of a high-end level was quite a sensation. September 21 - the release of the X700 line (RV410) was officially announced - ATI's response. At this point, the lineup of ATI PCI-Express solutions consisted of high-end represented by the X800 line, low-end represented by the X300 and X600 PRO lines /XT in the middle-end sector. The release of the X700 line put an end to all the existing “i”s in the list of the company’s mainstream solutions.

The X700 line, like the competitors' product, was made using a new technical process - 0.11 microns. However, this was not the first ATI solution made using this technical process. The “guinea pig” was the X300, on which this innovation was tested.

And if you do not take into account the transition to a new technological process, then the X700 was the direct successor of the X800 - all X800 technologies - 3Dc, SmoothVision, SmartShader and other “joys” were fully supported by the X700. The main differences are the reduction in the number of pixel pipelines to 8 and the use of a 128Bit video memory bus. Unlike the 6600GT, the number of vertex pipelines remained untouched; the X700, like the X800, was equipped with 6 vertex pipelines versus 3 for the GeForce 6600.

However, the GeForce 6600 had additional advantages in the form of support for shaders version 3.0 (versus 2.0+ for the X700), support for NVIDIA SLI, and, of course, the HSI bridge. The X700 line consisted of three boards - the X700XT, X700PRO, and X700, the main difference between which was in frequencies. GPU/memory. Also, the X700 Pro has a larger amount of video memory than other products in the series - the card has 256Mb of memory. In general, the situation with the X700 PRO is interesting - it had the same recommended price as the X700XT. In this case, the larger amount of video memory was "redeemed" by lower frequencies compared to the older model.

ATI Radeon X700 Pro Specifications