AMD's R600 to suffer another delay

[Ciderax]

THE FIRST AMD/ATI graphics chip just cannot enter the world without much screaming and wriggling.

In fact, it's looking more like Nvidia is going to be to the market first with an 80 nanometre version of the G80 graphics chip, rather than ATI's 720 million transistor monster.

The last revision of the prototype chip - upon which a certain "pre-review" is based - also suffers from problems which are serious enough to get another re-spin, sources tell me. This re-spin puts a hold on the launch for another couple of weeks, and now R600 is looking like an early March launch, probably the week before SnowBIT in Hangover. However, AMD/ATI is making severe changes to the whole line up and we can say that this launch, when it happens, will be very, very shocking for the 3D industry.

We learned about the performance and feature characteristics and they're looking pretty impressive in more than one way, although you can expect that Dr. Spinola's engine is getting into defensive mode, saying people "don't understand what the R600 is".

However, engineer teams are working around the clock to make this launch as good as possible.

One small note on the tech demos. Prepare for your mandibles to drop, because Adrienne should look like a high-school attempt at 3D graphics compared to ATI's thing.

Source: winbeta.org

[arbek]

should be interesting to see what the new card performance would be like.

[sylv3rblade]

hmm.. ATI's R600 is really making my mouth water buit just thinking, doesn't it need a newer board, one released together with the card to maximize card efficiency?

[Einhanderkiller]

Originally Posted by sylv3rblade

hmm.. ATI's R600 is really making my mouth water buit just thinking, doesn't it need a newer board, one released together with the card to maximize card efficiency?

Any PCI-e x16 slot should work fine with these new cards. However, the next generation cards (series after NV's G80 and ATI/AMD's R600) should start getting close to starving the bandwidth that PCI-e provides. By then, [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] boards should have been released.

[zubu]

t can support resolutions up to a mind blowing 2560×1600!



180FPS! OH MA GAWD!

The R600 Specs are:

* 64 4-Way SIMD Unified Shaders, 128 Shader Operations/Cycle
* 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs
* 512 bit Memory Controller, full 32 bit per chip connection
* GDDR3 at 900 MHz clock speed (January)
* GDDR4 at 1.1 GHz clock speed (March, revised edition)
* Total bandwidth 115 GB/s on GDDR3
* Total bandwidth 140 GB/s on GDDR4
* Consumer memory support 1024 MB
* DX10 full compatibility with draft DX10.1 vendor-specific cap removal (unified programming)
* 32FP internal processing
* Hardware support for GPU clustering (any 2^n number, not limited to Dual or Quad-GPU)
* Hardware DVI-HDCP support (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection)
* Hardware Quad-DVI output support (Limited to workstation editions)
* 230W

Multi-GPU cluster solutions will be available for the workstation market only until March, 2007.

Processing Power:

* 105,000,000,000 SOps (Shader Operations Per Second)
* 2,000,000,000 TCps (Triangle Calculations Per Second)
* 28 GTps (Gigatexels Per Second)

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Good day sir nVidia!

[sylv3rblade]

Nvidia was leftout on Oblivion >_<

[Einhanderkiller]

zubu, that's a very questionable article. The website on which that article originated had that as its only article. Level505 looks like its just out to make some ad money--just look at the amount of ads on the page. And furthermore, the results don't even look correct. In articles all over the net, the 8800GTX has scored much higher with similar configurations in those games.

[ch1pz]

I hadn't heard of that PCI-E 2.0. I figured the PCI-E x16 would be coming to a close sooner or later. Is 2.0 supposed to be PCI-E x32? I assume bus speed is the main improvement.

[SlaughterMe]

O_o i totally had the same opinion

[Master Penguin]

lets hope it'll drop the prices of other cards...