ATI Rage6 Details

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Well, we've seen info on the Voodoo5 from 3dfx and NV15 (kinda, here , here, here, and here) from NVidia, why not see what ATI has going? IXBT has a preview of the new Rage6 chipset which may finally be a contender with the top of the performance market.

- 25 million transistors
- 2 rendering pipelines with 3 texturing units each
- 200-400MHz core, 200mhz memory
- Pixel fillrate: 400-800 million pixels per second
- Texel fillrate:
    1 texel per 1 pixel: 400-800 million texels per second
    2 texels per 1 pixel: 800-1600 million texels per second
    3 texels per 1 pixel: 1200-2400 million texels per second
- 8-128MB local graphics memory
- 350-400MHz RAMDAC integrated into the graphics core

10:10update: You might wanna check out this SharkyExtreme article ont he chipset as well while you're at it. Thanks ilya.

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