Early Evaluation of the R600

[Lemur]

This is the first comprehensive preview I've yet seen of ATI's upcoming DX10 card, the R600. Feast your eyes on the bleeding edge, me mateys ...

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