Is the AMD R600 rushed and a bit crude?

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It seems like they just clocked it as high as possible without concern for power usage and size. It all looks a bit crude and ugly. Enthusiast boards should be sleek and the pinnacle of design... not some horribly knocked together massive lump of PCB with a cooling solution straight off a £10 hair dryer.

I would of hoped the progression to 65nm fabrication, would have made this faster, smaller and less power hungry than the G80, but it really doesnt seem so.

Anyone care to discuss?
 
GMâ„¢ said:
It seems like they just clocked it as high as possible without concern for power usage and size. It all looks a bit crude and ugly. Enthusiast boards should be sleek and the pinnacle of design... not some horribly knocked together massive lump of PCB with a cooling solution straight off a £10 hair dryer.

I would of hoped the progression to 65nm fabrication, would have made this faster, smaller and less power hungry than the G80, but it really doesnt seem so.

Anyone care to discuss?
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Based on the rumors if it has a 512-bit bus, 3/4 of a billion transistors, high clockspeed, and 320-ALUS I would call it an engineering wonder.
 
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Based on the rumors if it has a 512-bit bus, 3/4 of a billion transistors, high clockspeed, and 320-ALUS I would call it an engineering wonder.
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That's -almost- what they said at the pre-release of... Intel P4 "Prescott". :???:
Some even wanted to call it the "Pentium 5" (yeah, i know...)
 
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Well to put it more clearly, I am not disputing its technical brilliance, but more so in its poor aesthetics.
 
You're disputing how the cooler looks? If it's quiet and works well, who cares how it looks?
 
GM™ said:
It seems like they just clocked it as high as possible without concern for power usage and size. It all looks a bit crude and ugly. Enthusiast boards should be sleek and the pinnacle of design... not some horribly knocked together massive lump of PCB with a cooling solution straight off a £10 hair dryer.

I would of hoped the progression to 65nm fabrication, would have made this faster, smaller and less power hungry than the G80, but it really doesnt seem so.

Anyone care to discuss?
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Just curious how you could say that with how little hard info we have on the R600? :|

Also, how can it be rushed and months late? :???:
 
GMâ„¢ said:
It seems like they just clocked it as high as possible without concern for power usage and size. It all looks a bit crude and ugly. Enthusiast boards should be sleek and the pinnacle of design... not some horribly knocked together massive lump of PCB with a cooling solution straight off a £10 hair dryer.

I would of hoped the progression to 65nm fabrication, would have made this faster, smaller and less power hungry than the G80, but it really doesnt seem so.

Anyone care to discuss?
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Feel free to continue bitching about AMD's handling of R600 in the other thread.
 
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