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Coup in the Graphics Performance War  ATi's X800 Pulls Off
Another Coup in the Graphics Performance War  ATi kept quiet
last month after NVIDIA launched its very impressive GeForce
6800 Ultra and the NV40 graphics processor that will become the
foundation for NVIDIA product lines in the future. Indeed,
information about the Canadian company's latest design was a
rare commodity. The inevitable rumors about ATi's design
pervaded chat rooms on the Internet, many of which cited
"reliable" sources and ended up transforming misinformation into
outlandish fairytales.  Today, ATi introduces its new line of
high-end graphics cards, called the Radeon X800. This family of
cards is based on ATi's youngest graphics processor core,
codenamed R420. The "X" in the product name may raise hopes of
DirectX 10 support or something of the sort, but this is not the
case. Instead, the X stands for the Roman numeral 10. It seems
that after the Radeon 9800 line, ATi simply