ATI intros Radeon X800 GTO premium graphics card

NEW DELHI: ATI Technologies Inc., a leader in visualization technologies, has announced the introduction of its Radeon X800 GTO premium graphics card, the newest member of the Radeon family of products that is designed to give gamers the ultimate combination of graphics performance, gaming power and value.

"ATI's new Radeon X800 GTO will let you get into the game and lose yourself in a truly immersive gaming experience with any of today's top titles," said Rich Heye, vice president and general manager, Desktop Business Unit in a statement. "With the X800 GTO's advanced technology, ATI once again brings gamers great performance, realism and value."

ATI's Radeon X800 GTO combines a powerful 12-pipe 3D engine with 256-bit memory interface and a memory data rate of up to 1GHz for outstanding performance across the entire range of exciting new game titles on the market today. The Radeon X800 GTO's advanced 3D architecture also features SmartShader graphics technology for the most-advanced pixel shader engine available anywhere.

The statement said that the new Radeon X800 GTO delivers a fantastic gaming experience through cutting-edge technologies and capabilities. They include, mparallel 3D gaming engine, 256-bit GDDR3 memory interface for lightning fast memory speeds, SmartShader and SmoothVision graphics technologies for exceptional gaming realism, 3Dc compression technology to bring out fine details with minimum memory usage, Videoshader with programmable video performance and HyperZ for lossless Z-Buffer compression that reduces memory bandwidth by up to 25%.

The card is priced at Rs. 13, 999 (exclusive of taxes) and will be available in India next month.