RV570XT (X1900GT) pixellated

WHILE BROWSING through my Computex folder, yours truly managed to miss a real gem in action: the RV570XT chip, to be known as name-sharing Radeon X1900GT.

MSI showed the card with all the spec, so we'll just repeat what ATI or AMD-ATI has in store for a mystical event on September 8th, 2006. Under the name of RX1900GT-VT2D256E, MSI plans to offer its vision of X1900GT.

The GPU comes with 16 ROP units, which means the chip is capable of handling 16 pixels per clock, 36 Pixel Shader and eight Vertex Shader units. Memory interface is nice and wide 256-bit one. Coupled with 256 MB of GDDR-3 memory clocked at 600 MHz DDR (1.2 GHz), we reach the number of 39.8 gigabytes per second.

However, there is a tricky point here. MSI will advertise this product as "Same 3D Image with RX1900XTX". Now, does MSI know something about the way lower-end ATI chips render 3D scenes or not?

Probably all just one misunderstanding. Expect the card in store in late September or even beginning of October. By that time, you can expect DirectX 10 compliant GeForce 8800 in stores. µ