ATI Announces the Radeon X1800 GTO Video Card

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:55 am

ATI Announces New Price-Performance Leader: Radeon® X1800 GTO Featuring Advanced Gaming Performance at an Exceptional Value

MARKHAM, Ontario – March 9, 2006 – ATI Technologies Inc. (TSX: ATY,
NASDAQ: ATYT) today announced the newest family member of the Radeon® X1800 series, the Radeon® X1800 GTO. Available from ATI’s add-in-board partners by the end of the month at a suggested retail price of $249, the Radeon X1800 GTO delivers outstanding gaming performance that will dominate other graphics options in its price class.

With simultaneous support of high definition rendering (HDR) and anti-aliasing (AA)—functionality unique to ATI—the Radeon X1800 GTO is the ideal choice for those who want their games to look their best.

“ATI recognizes that there are gamers at every price point—and the Radeon X1800 GTO is a clear price-performance winner at $249,” said Vijay Sharma, Director, Desktop Discrete Graphics, ATI. “The X1800 GTO is an important addition to the Radeon X1800 series further strengthening the mid-range market and giving users a powerful gaming card with a range of multimedia functions.”

Featuring the same ultra-threaded shader architecture and revolutionary new memory architecture of ATI’s award-winning Radeon X1800 XT and Radeon X1800 XL GPUs; the Radeon X1800 GTO rounds out the series at an unbeatable value-to-performance ratio. In addition, ATI’s Avivo visual technology ensures the Radeon X1800 GTO delivers superior high definition video playback and image quality.

Radeon X1800 GTO has 12 pixel shader processors, a 256-bit GDDR3 memory interface and operates at 500 MHz core and 1000 MHz memory speeds—ensuring it has the performance headroom to support the most visually intensive games and applications today and well into the future. It will also ensure an exceptional experience with Microsoft’s next-generation operating system, Windows Vista, when it launches later this year.

For more information about the Radeon X1800 GTO please visit. http://www.ati.com

About ATI Technologies
ATI Technologies Inc. is a world leader in the design and manufacture of innovative 3D graphics, PC platform technologies and digital media silicon solutions. An industry pioneer since 1985, ATI is the world's foremost graphics processor unit (GPU) provider and is dedicated to deliver leading-edge performance solutions for the full range of PC and Mac desktop and notebook platforms, workstation, set-top and digital television, game console and handheld device markets. With fiscal 2005 revenues of US $2.22 billion, ATI has more than 3,400 employees in the Americas, Europe and Asia. ATI common shares trade on NASDAQ (ATYT) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (ATY).

Legit Reviews has this card and completed our testing. Out of respect to nVidia we will be publishing this article tomorrow. ATI does not have these cards ready and they wont be in retail markets till at least next month. Nvidia is already shipping product and you can buy their 7600GT today. This reminds us of the X700 XT launch of a couple years ago when the cards never ever hit the market. I'm not sure how ATI can sell R520 cores for under $250, but it will be interesting to see.

pointreyes · Post by **pointreyes** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:29 am

Still trying to figure out if my purchase of the X1800XT for $300 was a good deal for multimedia usage. I have been told that the 7900GT can beat the X1800XT but I'm not a gamer; however, I am a multimedia person.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:33 am

The 7900GT does beat the X1800XT hands down... You will see in a future article.

pointreyes · Post by **pointreyes** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:02 pm

I haven't even recieved the X1800XT yet and I'm already planning to send it back. Probably do a refuse delivery.

From what I can tell.
PureVideo is better than AVIVO and the ATi fans are louder than the nV fans. Both of those factors are enough to tell me to forget it.