Unless the RV670 can more than stand up to the competition.
So, do we know anything about RV670 yet?
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Yes, in the retail market. But for the OEM market it is different. Not the first tier OEMs (who already know both products) but more for the smaller, that are not worth doing an NDA, yet still go for 1000+ cards. At the moment NV (or their board partners) seems confident, only pointing oit that GeForce 8X00 has not been bad so far, while you hear more promises/rumors from the other side.
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It looks like RV670 is R600(with DX10.1) shrunk down to 55nm.
Daily Tech commenting on the story...
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9073
and here is a pin layout of rv670... notice that it's identical to R600's pin layout.
http://www.chiphell.com/attachments/20070921_c3a42236cfe075ae95e8p7ibkjohFcbZ.jpg
Daily Tech commenting on the story...
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9073
and here is a pin layout of rv670... notice that it's identical to R600's pin layout.
http://www.chiphell.com/attachments/20070921_c3a42236cfe075ae95e8p7ibkjohFcbZ.jpg
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More confusion
I have no idea why dailytech write this, source is coolaler forum, there is pictures from CCC, so the card is working :smile:
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Maybe I should not say Intentical, but rather similar. I'm talking about the pattern, not the count. I would imagine it having less pins.
Seem to be R600 downscaling to 55nm and becomes RV670...
Oop: Mis-reading the UVD on slide.... apologise to delete it...
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Fruitzilla forgot to mention that the HD2900GT will be launched at or around the 8th of October and will only be around for one month. But they will probably at another news item in a few hours (or tomorrow) where they mention that... They have to keep attracting people.
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Hehe. Ok... so my next guess is that tomorrow they'll post that RV670 will after all be launched (not a paper launch) in November. First thing I heard earlier this week was mid-November, but today I was told late November.
They will, probably not till tomorrow, since their source is VR-Zone and VR-Zone just posted news that AMD Plans To Launch RV670 By Mid Nov
Now we just need to know more about the number of ROPs and their configuration... But then again, if perf is as good as some rumours are claiming, then I'm sure it'll be good on that front!
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so what does the slide mean by 320sp per GPU?
I believe the answer can already be found somewhere in this thread...
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Gah if there is one that that's dissapointed me about AMD this round (and Nvidia last round) is the apparent focus on a GX2 style card as the high end.
Unless they've come up with some revolutionary way to handle multi-GPU rendering that has somehow not leaked onto some forum somewhere, it's just not looking too promising.
I can deal with slower than expected performance if it brings something new to the table (R600), but a GX2 style card is the devil's child as far as I'm concerned. Shame... Granted I'm sure their marketing will love it if it manages to claim top spot in select benchmarks (ala 7950 GX2).
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Unless they've come up with some revolutionary way to handle multi-GPU rendering that has somehow not leaked onto some forum somewhere, it's just not looking too promising.
I can deal with slower than expected performance if it brings something new to the table (R600), but a GX2 style card is the devil's child as far as I'm concerned. Shame... Granted I'm sure their marketing will love it if it manages to claim top spot in select benchmarks (ala 7950 GX2).
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SB- I have hope that Crossfire 2.0 address the main issues with multi GPU rendering. In the mean time, I'm not sure if this is a marketing and collective initiative to garner more platform mind share. Maybe it's a initiative to improve AFR rendering and perhaps a new platform approch to how crossfire works. I say this because RV670 is CF2.0 ready from marketing slides I can gather. But what does this mean?
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Yes, but why is CF2.0 being marketed under RV670 only? Maybe their are hardware limitations that had to be overcome. Ohh, it would be nice to have multi monitor support with CF. I'm also aware of tri fire and quad fire, but they can't add anymore without somewhat improving the issues at hand now.
