ATI's R520 Specs Shown

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My dear high pitched friend Fudo at The Inq is reporting that the ATI R520 has 8 shader units and wifi 802.20! okay -- maybe not the wifi, but still some interesting rumors.

We learned that R520 will have eight Shader units. The current R420/R423 generation that come under the X800 brand has six Shader units. These extra two units will certainly speed up shading operations and that's what developers need for endless shading loops.

We also have to add that R520 comes with support for Shader Model 3.0+.

We still stick to our original story that R520 will come in spring of 2005, let's say around Cebit 2005.

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This should be interesting as right now ATI makes one of the best high end products but seems to be hurting in the midrange where the 6600GT dominates. I hope that the move to the R520 gives us some nice midrange cards.