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Radeon X700 Series

ATi Radeon X700 Series
Release date 2004-2005
Architecture Radeon R400
Fabrication process and transistors 120M 110nm (RV410)
Cards
Entry-level X700 SE, X700 LE, X700
Mid-range X700 PRO
High-end X740 XL
API support
Direct3D Direct3D 9.0b
Shader Model 2.0b
OpenGL OpenGL 2.0
History
Predecessor Radeon X300-X600 Series
Successor Radeon X800 Series

The Radeon X700 (RV410) series replaced the X600 in September 2004. X700 Pro is clocked at 425 MHz core, and produced on a 0.11 micrometre process. RV410 used a layout consisting of 8 pixel pipelines connected to 4 ROPs (similar to GeForce 6600) while maintaining the 6 vertex shaders of X800. The 110 nm process was a cost-cutting process, designed not for high clock speeds but for reducing die size while maintaining high yields. An X700 XT was planned for production, and reviewed by various hardware web sites, but was never released. It was believed that X700 XT set too high of a clock ceiling for ATI to profitably produce. X700 XT was also not adequately competitive with nVidia's impressive GeForce 6600GT. ATI would go on produce a card in the X800 series to compete instead.


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