Radeon X800 XL
As for the R430, in terms of architecture it was the direct successor of the R423 (RX800XT PCI-E), with one small but important caveat - the use of a thinner 0.11 process technology. Accordingly, the card was not so voracious in terms of power consumption, and given that the standard frequency of the chip was also not sky-high, even more so. Consequently, the card did not require additional power supply (the 75 watts that it received through the PCI-Express slot were quite enough) and a monstrous cooling system for trouble-free operation.
In combination with the most "cool" technical characteristics at that time - 16 pixel pipelines, 6 vertex units, 256Mb of video memory with a 256Bit bus - everything looked very rosy.
Specifications ATI Radeon X800 XL
| Name | Radeon X800XL |
| Core | R430 |
| Process technology (µm) | 0.11 |
| Transistors (million) | 160 |
| Core frequency | 400 |
| Memory frequency (DDR) | 490 (980) |
| Bus and memory type | GDDR3 256 Bit |
| Bandwidth (Gb/s) | 31.3 |
| Pixel pipelines | 16 |
| TMU per conveyor | 1 |
| textures per clock | 16 |
| textures per pass | 16 |
| Vertex conveyors | 6 |
| Pixel Shaders | 2.0b |
| Vertex Shaders | 2.0b |
| Fill Rate (Mpix/s) | 6400 |
| Fill Rate (Mtex/s) | 6400 |
| DirectX | 9.0b |
| Anti-Aliasing (Max) | MS-6x |
| Anisotropic Filtering (Max) | 16x |
| Memory | 256-512 |
| Interface | PCI-E/AGP |
| RAMDAC | 2x400 |