R520 Infomania

Yup, and quadritouple the Rxxx series performance too.

I have it on good authority from Team DX....

 

I can, since it cannot be much of an upgrade over r520, just a tweak, revision, speed bump. although December 2004 *is* actually pretty early.

maybe that means R520 will be ready to go sooner. like April-May, and then R580 in the fall.

 

whoa!

I was thinking that, surly R580 was only going to be a minor tweak of R520 like R350 to R360 or R420 to R480.

but it does make sense that R580 is now probably a significant boost over R520 especially if Nvidia has G70 and even faster/more powerful G80 coming down this year.


heh, the graphics wars & one-upmanship NEVER end

 

r580 being just a simple refresh in ati terms , taped out in dec.04 seems really early to me but maybe they just planned with a longer timespan this time because of the new process. This could mean they taped out 3 0.09um SM3.0 parts in 04

 

Well, I just think that there's a larger gap between intial tape out and launch than conventional wisdom dictates, rather than this latest generation being anything unusual.

 

Take a guess when ATI first recieved R520 back...

 

When they received the first one back from the fab? Over a year ago.

 

Anyone feel like giving their idea of the definition of taped-out?

 

that was a copy/paste

cycle time usually 6-8weeks

 

July - August last year.

 

many months before December

 

Why, whould you even tell us if we were close?

You should change that to:
Where's CMKRNL when you need her?

Of course I could be way off, BUT I thought CMKRNL was a female...

 

No.

 

So true and yet so hard to resit playing his game... Curse you Dave (in a good way of course)

 

I'd be really impressed if this is ATI's route. especially after the dissapointingly small leaps of R350 and R360 over R300, as well as R480 over R420.

 

The man is good, I gotta admit. No one knows how to whip some speculations into a frenzy pre-launch the way good old Dave does.

 

512-bit bus for R580 ??? you said "so R580 is the one with the 512-bit bus"

I am assuming Jawed, that you were aware of some ATI VPU on a roadmap with 512-bit bus? whatever it was you got to see (roadmap, post, website, etc) can I see too ?

 

Well I started that load of nonsense so have the right to un-start it.

I believe R520 came back in early December. What is suprising is the lack of new info after CeBIT. You would have thought that all that beer would have loosened a few NDA-monkeys up a little. I bet more than a couple of employees woke up with that "OMG what did I tell Fuad?" feeling.

 

Before X800XT PE actually available.

 

Dude clearly isn't technical. If I was an IHV employee on the way to one of those shindigs I'd load up on esoteric DX7 tidbits and dribble 'em out "confidentially" as elements that the next gen will support. . .keep meself in free beers all night.