ATI to launch R481 soon

“ EVEN THOUGH RIALTO should be ready in the next few days, ATI decided to make one more AGP high end chip. We were surprised when we saw a R481 chip listed but it hasn’t taken us long to find out more about it.

R481 is a R480, for the Radeon X850 with an AGP interface. ATI won’t bridge this chipm it will make it nativem as ATI decided to do native chips as long as it makes sense to do so. We heard this from the ATI CEO back at Computex 2004. “