9800 XT was slightly faster than the 9800 PRO had been, while the 9600 XT competed well with the newly launched GeForce FX 5700 Ultra. The RV360 chip on 9600 XT was the first graphics chip by ATI that utilized Low-K chip fabrication and allowed even higher clocking of the 9600 core (500 MHz default). The 9600 SE was ATI's answer to NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5200 Ultra, managing to outperform the 5200 while also being cheaper. Another "RV350" board followed in early 2004, on the Radeon 9550, which was a Radeon 9600 with a lower core clock (though an identical memory clock and bus width). Worthy of note regarding the R300-based generation is that the entire lineup utilized single-slot cooling solutions. It was not until the R420 generation's Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition, in December 2004, that ATI would adopt an official dual-slot cooling design. New interface Also in 2004, ATI released the Radeon X300 and X600 boards. These were based on the RV370 (110 nm process) and RV380 (130 nm Low-K process) GPU respectively. They were nearly identical to the chips used in Radeon 9550 and 9600, only differing in that they were native PCI Express offerings. These were very popular for Dell and other OEM companies to sell in various configurations; connectors: DVI vs. DMS-59, card height: full-height vs. half-height. Later the Radeon X550 was launched, using the same chip as Radeon X300 graphics card (RV370). Models See also List of AMD graphics processing units References External links 3D Chip and Board Charts, by Beyond3D, retrieved January 10, 2006 ATI's Radeon 9700 (R300) – Crowning the New King, by Anand Lal Shimpi, Anandtech, July 18, 2002, retrieved January 10, 2006 ATI Radeon 9700 PRO Review, by Dave Baumann, Beyond3D, August 19, 2002, retrieved January 10, 2006 Matrox's Parhelia - A Performance Paradox, by Anand Lal Shimpi, Anandtech, June 25, 2002, retrieved January 10, 2006 Infos zur ALDI Grafikkarte Radeon 9800 XXL (in German), Infos about ALDI graphic card Radeon 9800 XXL, retrieved November 21, 2006 AMD Radeon R3xx 3D Register Reference Guide techPowerUp! GPU Database ATI Technologies products Graphics cards Computer-related introductions in 2002