ATI Annouces "X1K" Family of Graphics Processors

October 6th, 2005

Yesterday ATI announced its new line of GPUs, the X1K family. This family includes the flagship Radeon X1800 XT and XL GPUs (codenamed R520), the mid-range Radeon X1600 XT and Pro GPUs (code named RV530), and the mainstream Radeon X1300 and X1300 Pro GPUs (code named RV515). For a detailed overview, see the articles at ExtremeTech or Beyond3D. ATI has also announced preliminary plans to enable GPGPU development by publishing a detailed spec and a thin abstraction interface for programming the new GPUs.

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