> > R500: > > > > Froogle found plenty of hits: "about 1,808 for ATI X1300", "about > > 913 > > for ATI X1600", and "about 302 for ATI X1950". > > > > Newegg has X1300 for US$59.99 + $7 shipping. > > Ok, let me rephrase by quoting wikipedia; "The Radeon X1000 series > using the core was introduced on October 5, 2005. ATI has released > the successor to the R500 series with the R600 series on May 14, 2007."
You wrote that R500 was no longer sold, but R500 appears to be widely available, along with older design chips. They are still selling Rage. > So ATI released their newer chipset well over a year ago, and now > some drivers are starting to work. I'm willing to bet that above > results are stock items, not new items produced by ATI. > > > R600: > > > > ATI is still playing catchup getting the docs out. > > > > "AMD has yet to publicly release the R600 (Radeon HD 2000 / > > Radeon HD 3000) > > documentation, but the xf86-video-radeonhd developers at Novell > > have had > > this documentation under NDA." > > I rest my case. ATI's doc publishing project isn't caught up yet, even ATI says that. But they probably will get caught up, and working open source drivers will follow. OGP's doc publishing project isn't caught up either, as we just learned today. The OGD1 schematic isn't up to date. ATI's documentation isn't going to be as complete as OGP's. But it looks like it will be complete enough to be very serious competition for most users. This competition needs to be addressed. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
