ATI has announced the official product name and specs for its next high-end graphics card, the Radeon 9700 Pro. The Radeon 9700 was revealed a few weeks ago, and it has been trumpeted as the first ATI product to promise significantly better performance than archrival Nvidia's lineup can deliver.

　　ATI has finalized a few details of the card's specs since last month's preview launch. Most notably, we know now that the chip in the Radeon 9700 Pro will run at 325MHz, while the 128MB of memory will run at 620MHz. High clock speeds are an important part of performance, but the Radeon 9700's performance potential comes from its next-generation features, like the fact that it has eight pipelines for processing pixel effects, compared with four in current cards. The new card will also have 256-bit paths to memory, which doubles memory bandwidth and should prevent memory speeds from being a bottleneck.

　　The Radeon 9700 Pro will ship to retail stores starting August 19 and will carry a list price of $399. For more information, read our in-depth preview of the card. We'll have a full review of the Radeon 9700 Pro in the coming weeks.