More R600 Details

[BlackAxe3001]

http://www.dailytech.com/ATI+Release...rticle6903.htm

All the good info is there.

Discuss!

EDIT: Pictures

Keep in mind that these are pictures of the OEM model. The retail one should be more like the 8800 or similar cards.

[Whacker]

Keep in mind that these are pictures of the OEM model. The retail one should be more like the 8800 or similar cards.

I believe those model pics were/are intended for desktop Macs.

I wish AMD/ATI would hurry the hell up and release their next gen cards (and cpus) so the price wars will heat up again.

Bonus link: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38923

Rumors are ATI's top end card and Nvidia's 8800 Ultra/8900 series cards will be just shy of $1k USD at launch.

[Bijo]

Bonus link: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38923

Rumors are ATI's top end card and Nvidia's 8800 Ultra/8900 series cards will be just shy of $1k USD at launch.

Oh, 1k... that's nothing. Everybody can afford that. All they gotta do is a little improvising, like secretly robbing a bank, or stealing from the government, taxes and such. No, I'm not joking!







The price wars should be going on again.

[Lemur]

Apparently the R600 will do sound, physics, and comes with a detachable vibrating wand. For, you know, sore backs and feet ...

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Sound and physics are the buzzwords for AMD's R600

GPU is a GPU no longer

By Theo Valich: Thursday 19 April 2007, 16:35

DAAMIT'S R600 SIMPLY can't be called a GPU anymore. GPU stands for Graphics Processing Unit, while R600 can be shortly described as GSPPU - Graphics, Sound and Physics Processing Unit.

It seems now that the System-on-a-Chip concept implemented in R600 was far beyond anything Graphzilla's rider Jen-Hsun ever talked about, and the roar of angry beast will be heard in city of Satan Clara.

We hear that Sound Physics has been buzzed for quite some time, and we are massaging our contacts to bring you as much detail as possible. It seems that R600 GPU will be less CPU-bound than it has been in the past, since a lot more parts of the scene will be calculated and rendered on the GPU itself.

R600 combines graphics with audio and physics process in a whole another way, and those 64 vect5D shader pipelines yield in 320 scalar units total, directly comparable to Nvidia's 128 scalar ones. Now, 128 scalar units at 1.35 GHz is still a tad more efficient that ATi's own 320 at 740 MHz, but ATi's pipeline is more complex than it was previously thought.

Who'd have thought that ATI would overtake Nvidia in a race to multi-purpose GPU and make consoles of today with their PowerPC CPUs look so 1990s? Perhaps R600 was really worth the wait after all.

[Xiahou]

And will probably cost more than a PS3.

[Husar]

Why do they never mention energy consumption?
Time to build my own nuclear reactor I think.

[Bijo]

Why do they never mention energy consumption?
Time to build my own nuclear reactor I think.

You mean TWO nuclear reactors........ plus somebody sitting in your garden cycling to give that extra power it needs