sushrukh
04-14-2007, 12:02 PM
AMD's Shrinked R600
" We don't know much but we can confirm that ATI is working on a smaller R600 marchitecture based chip codenamed R650. It is officially messed up with R600. The R600 chip is simply too hot and it has terrible heat dissipation and this problem has to be fixed. Dissipation of 230+ Watts is simply too much for any graphic chip and any standard.
We are seeing R520 got swapped with R580 situation all over again and this can definitely confirm that R600 won't have a good and great life. R600 will be replaced as soon as possible as soon as the R650 redesign is done. This is a very expensive but desperate move.
We don't know any schedules about R650 but we are sure that it comes later than Q2.
We had a chance to compare two cards, at least in measurements and we found out that 12.4 card PCB is almost the same like the 9.5 one. Both cards have circa 9.5 inch PCB with some different components.
This means that the cooler makes the size. The OEM card, also known as 12.4 inch one is as big because it has bunch of copper and heat pipes on a big cooler while the 9.5 inch card has much smaller cooler.
I am sure that 12.4 massive cooler can remove some massive temperature out of this horribly hot card and that is exactly what OEM's wants."
Link :- http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=472&Itemid=1
ATI prepares for DX10 AGP :- http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=454&Itemid=1
G84 AGP is not coming soon :- http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=453&Itemid=1
" We don't know much but we can confirm that ATI is working on a smaller R600 marchitecture based chip codenamed R650. It is officially messed up with R600. The R600 chip is simply too hot and it has terrible heat dissipation and this problem has to be fixed. Dissipation of 230+ Watts is simply too much for any graphic chip and any standard.
We are seeing R520 got swapped with R580 situation all over again and this can definitely confirm that R600 won't have a good and great life. R600 will be replaced as soon as possible as soon as the R650 redesign is done. This is a very expensive but desperate move.
We don't know any schedules about R650 but we are sure that it comes later than Q2.
We had a chance to compare two cards, at least in measurements and we found out that 12.4 card PCB is almost the same like the 9.5 one. Both cards have circa 9.5 inch PCB with some different components.
This means that the cooler makes the size. The OEM card, also known as 12.4 inch one is as big because it has bunch of copper and heat pipes on a big cooler while the 9.5 inch card has much smaller cooler.
I am sure that 12.4 massive cooler can remove some massive temperature out of this horribly hot card and that is exactly what OEM's wants."
Link :- http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=472&Itemid=1
ATI prepares for DX10 AGP :- http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=454&Itemid=1
G84 AGP is not coming soon :- http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=453&Itemid=1