New Xenon dev kits shipping

[bbot]

According to this TheInquirer article:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20146


So Dave Baumann, are to clinging to the idea that R500 will be a fundamentally different design from R520 "Fudo"?
Qroach, have you gotten the new dev kits?

 

[kyetech]

already got flamed for posting two inq links.... one of them was this topic !!

 

[Cryect]

Why wouldn't he be still clinging to the R500 will be completely different architecture from the R520?

Is there anything real to suggest that ATI has completely changed their minds in the past few months on not having the R500 having unified shaders?

 

[bbot]

Various news sources are saying that the R500 will simply be R520 with a 10MB cache. So according to them, no unified shaders.

 

[Dave Baumann]

bbot, take a look at the following slide from a recent Press "ATI ISV Conference"

That context of that was discussed as a path to Longhorn.

Various news sources are saying that the R500 will simply be R520 with a 10MB cache. So according to them, no unified shaders.

Such as?

 

[Acert93]

I thought the R500 taped out last month? The jist I have gotten here is that the R500 is the evolution of the scrapped R400 and the precursor of desktop R600 part. I have not heard any reasons why the R500 would not have unified shaders... any links?

There is still a lot of secrecy about the R500/520 and the NV50 and the new consoles... but from lurking here for a long time it seems Dave is pretty reliable and has some good inside sources. I guess we will find out in a month or two if the R500 is a R520 derivative or the R600 precursor.