Radeon SE?

[Auric]

What's the story on the SE? I wonder if it is going to be offered or if it was just a test to see how far they could push the current Radeon design and whether it would be a viable product.

 

[guste]

There was a comment made by one of the PR people from ATi. I really can't remember where I saw it, but they said they would release it. I saw the quote a month or so ago. Things might have changed since then. It's a slightly different design, as far as the layout of the PCB goes, so maybe they did more than just bump up the clock speed, because Radeon is not a good overclocker. I would imagine that they will do more than just bump it up to 230/230, to get good performance.

 

[kyoshozx]

I haven't heard any new news about it, except for new pictures of the board at digi life. ATI been extremely quiet lately, I wonder what kind of performance increase we should expect from the SE.

 

[Rand]

I havent heard anything beyond the usual unconfirmed rumors that have been floating around for awhile.
If it is indeed released and clocked at 230/230 then I would imagine it will either be in extremely small quantities or based on a new board revision to allow for high clockspeeds as the current Radeon core is not a good overclocker at all, and seldom do even the best of them hit much beyond 200MHz.

 

[oldfart]

Info on the SE is very sparse. Here is what one of the Rage3D mods posted:



<< Guys, it is a real Radeon SE.
I have touched, seen, and used one before....

They use a new Radeon core, thats why they have that different # and stuff. Its not fake and its NOT an R200. >>



This card will have to be more than just a Rad 64 with a little higher clock speed for it to be a sucess. I dont see why ATI would bother if it were. It would be nice to see something around GF2U speed, and hopefully cheaper!

 

[duragezic]

Maybe got some faster ram on there and then clocked core/mem aschronously (sp?)?

 

[oldfart]

Who knows. Its all speculation (even if the card does exist) until they actually show up. The photos show a huge ass GPU HS and ramsinks. The &quot;new core&quot; is interesting.