AMD Talks ATI Radeon 3000-Series

[Unknown Soldier]

Advanced Micro Devices said on Thursday that even though its ATI Radeon HD 2000-series graphics chips family has experienced massive delays, the company is still positioned to deliver competitive graphics solutions to the market place. ATI, graphics product group of AMD, will concentrate on releasing “DirectX 10+” graphics chips next year as well as on improving the multi-GPU technology.

“In the enthusiast segment you can’t sit still. So, we will refresh Spider [AMD’s 2007 enthusiast platform – Editor] and will certainly bring quad-cores on 45nm in 2008, we will have a new enthusiast chipset and certainly we will have a new high-end GPU family as well in 2008 on the Leo platform,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager of graphics product group, at AMD's Technology Analyst Day.

Unfortunately, not a lot of information is known about AMD’s code-named R700 graphics product family. What was released was that the new graphics cores will support DirectX 10+ capabilities, PCI Express 2.0 interconnection, ATI Avivo HD video engine, universal video decoding (UVD), DisplayPort connector as well as ATI CrossFire multi-GPU technology.

The new family of products will be produced using 55nm process technology, which is available already at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). Therefore, if AMD executes itself flawlessly and does not tie together releases of new 45nm central processing units and 55nm graphics processing units, the new R700 family of chips may emerge already in the first half of 2008, something, which ATI needs crucially, as the latest two families – ATI Radeon X1000 and ATI Radeon HD 2000 – from the company emerged on the market considerably later than competing solutions from Nvidia Corp.

News Source: X-bit Labs

 

[Davros]

On a related note :

During today's analyst day in Sunnyvale AMD demonstrated a Phenom X4 system running at 3.0GHz (with just a regular stock heatsink and fan) on their upcoming RD790 chipset. Paired alongside this platform were three Radeon HD 2900 XT cards running in CrossFire mode (although it appears the third card was not connected).

During today's briefing AMD confirmed that RD790 will support PCIe 2.0 as well as support up to four graphics cards in CrossFire mode. AMD also dropped a few hints on what gamers can expect next year. On the CPU side, we'll see the first 45-nm CPUs from AMD shipping with up to 6MB of L3 cache, while 2008 will also see the debut of AMD's R7xx graphics family. R7xx will be built on 55-nm process technology.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

R700 goes Display port

AMD's next generation graphic chip will support DVI and Display port. This is what the creators of the hardware and display industry wants to push as the standard.

As HDMI is a dual link DVI interface with audio capability, it should not be hard to add HDMI over DVI support on the list of features, but the main connector should be the Display port.

VESA has been pushing its standards for years and it looks like this is unlikely to change in 2008 and for years to come. It looks like Nvidia’s high end cards will also go Display port, but it is too soon to tell.

News Source: Fudzilla

 

[Silent_Buddha]

Now all we need is a 24" monitor that supports 3800x2400 or greater resolutions. I'm assuming that a 4 lane displayport "port" would be able to support this rather than having to use dual dual-DVI ports.

Regards,
SB

 

[AnarchX]

Leaked AIB informations? @ MyDrivers:
http://66.249.91.104/translate_c?hl...ivers.com/1/88/88448.htm&prev=/language_tools

translation says:

new strategie:

-mainstream will divided in 2 segments: $79-149 and $149-299(midrange)

- new high-end and midrange GPUs every 6 months, and low-end and "sub-mainstream" every 12 months

R7xx launch schedules:

- high-end and midrange R7xx in the end of Q2 2008, low-end and "sub-mainstream" will come later (maybe Q3?)

- in Q4, the strategie following, will be a new high-end GPU launched -> R780 in 45nm, about the new midrange part I see nothing in the translation

 

[nutball]

Now all we need is a 24" monitor that supports 3800x2400 or greater resolutions.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-54982

Sadly defunct now, and hooooogely expensive when it was new (~$12k IIRC), but the technology does exist to build them.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

Aye the images on that screen were absolutely breathtakingly beautiful. Especially 3D images where the aliasing at native res was not quite the eyesore it is at 1920x1200 on that screen size. 2x was enough to clean up most of it, and 4x made things quite pretty.

However, the pixel response on the panel was incredibly slow.

Considering all the progress that has been made since then (2003), I wish some panel maker would step up and offer something more performant.

Regards,
SB