ATI RADEON X1600 PRO and XT come into focus earlier than expected

HEXUS has just learnt that that ATi's largest Add-In-Board (AIB) partner, Sapphire Technology, has finally started to ship its range of products based on the ATi RADEON X1600 GPU (RV530).

Even though, relative to some of ATi’s own RADEON X800 based products, the performance gain of RADEON X1600 is questionable, it seems that because there are apparently huge shortages of all ATi product in the channel, means that the RADEON X1600 is still likely to sell well.