ATi attempts to regain the video crown after the R520 misfire.

Anandtech is reporting that, according to internal ATi documents, their up-coming GPU is going to be dubbed "X1900". The card will feature 16 pixel pipelines, each capable of shading 3 pixels at a time, resulting in a total pixel shader capability of 48. Be sure not to confuse pixel pipelines with pixel shaders, this card will NOT be 3 times as powerful as the X1800XT, but it will deffinatly have much greater performance. Additionally, the X1900 will be clocked at even higher clock speeds than the current X1800.

The X1900 is slated for late January release, along with the RD580 chipset platform. This platform will feature a revamped south bridge, which has been a problem on most ATi chipsets thus far. It will also have two 16x PCI-E slots, instead of the old 8x/8x scheme used for SLi and first-generation Crossfire.

Both the card and platform are schedueled for a simultaneous release, and are aimed straight at Nvidia in an attempt to regain the high-end performance crown, which Nvidia has held for the last six months.

Source : GotFrag

* Crossfire > SLI