werty316
09-16-2006, 01:41 AM
Next month, ATi will launch two cards X1650XT and X1950Pro. Right after that, we should be expecting a new card based on the R600 core.
From our friends who saw it, the size is like the 7900GX2. The length is 33cm and takes up the space of 3 PCIe slots. It uses a single GPU and require 200W with a 8 pin power connector.
http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1158301575,93080,
What?!? 200W! 3 slot cooling? That's INSANE :shock:
ATI's R600 delayed until next year
WE EXPECTED to see R600 up and ready by the end of the calendar year but it looks like we are out of luck this time.
The acquisition of ATI made things and people a little bit insecure and out of focus, so the chip won't be read for December as originally planed.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34373
YESTERDAY I SAID I was chasing more info on the Nvidia G80 chip (http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34319). The more I dug, the more my head hurt, nothing concrete, so take this with a pretty big grain of salt. In any case, there is some interesting info here.
The first thing is I was a little off on the dates, the tech day now seems more likely in late October with a launch in early November. What's a few weeks between friends? If they have not gotten back the latest silicon though, it is going to be really tight to make that schedule, chips take time to fab.
What they will talk about is the odd part. First is the arrangement of the chip, physically we are hearing that it is 2 * 2 cm, or about a 400mm die. Ouch. One of the reasons it is so big is the whole dual core rumor that has been floating around. G80 is not going to be a converged shader unit like the ATI R500/XBox360 or R600, it will do things the 'old' way.
Some people are saying that it will have 96 pipes, split as 48 DX9 pipes and 48 DX10. While this may sound like a huge number, we are told if this is the case, it is unlikely that you can use both at the same time. Think a 48 or 48 architecture. That said, I kind of doubt this rumor, it makes little sense.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34359
From our friends who saw it, the size is like the 7900GX2. The length is 33cm and takes up the space of 3 PCIe slots. It uses a single GPU and require 200W with a 8 pin power connector.
http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1158301575,93080,
What?!? 200W! 3 slot cooling? That's INSANE :shock:
ATI's R600 delayed until next year
WE EXPECTED to see R600 up and ready by the end of the calendar year but it looks like we are out of luck this time.
The acquisition of ATI made things and people a little bit insecure and out of focus, so the chip won't be read for December as originally planed.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34373
YESTERDAY I SAID I was chasing more info on the Nvidia G80 chip (http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34319). The more I dug, the more my head hurt, nothing concrete, so take this with a pretty big grain of salt. In any case, there is some interesting info here.
The first thing is I was a little off on the dates, the tech day now seems more likely in late October with a launch in early November. What's a few weeks between friends? If they have not gotten back the latest silicon though, it is going to be really tight to make that schedule, chips take time to fab.
What they will talk about is the odd part. First is the arrangement of the chip, physically we are hearing that it is 2 * 2 cm, or about a 400mm die. Ouch. One of the reasons it is so big is the whole dual core rumor that has been floating around. G80 is not going to be a converged shader unit like the ATI R500/XBox360 or R600, it will do things the 'old' way.
Some people are saying that it will have 96 pipes, split as 48 DX9 pipes and 48 DX10. While this may sound like a huge number, we are told if this is the case, it is unlikely that you can use both at the same time. Think a 48 or 48 architecture. That said, I kind of doubt this rumor, it makes little sense.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34359