ATI X300 with Hyper Memory waiting in the wings

04:33 - Monday 14 February 2005 by Wolfgang Gruener
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: ati, x300, with, hyper, memory, waiting, in, the, wings Category : Miscellaneous

ATI has an answer for Nvidia's 6200 Turbo cache marchitecture. ATI went public with its architecture where it can address system memory and use it for a graphics card, but so far it hasn't launched a card supporting it.

ATI calls it "Hyper Memory" and its X300 chips are capable of supporting this marchitecture. It's not so big a deal for the noisy high end market, but all OEMs and system integrators just adore it. It gives them the power and right to say that a graphic card actually has 128MB of memory, even if the real graphic card has only 16MB or real dedicated graphic RAM.

Read the complete story . (The Inquirer)


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