The LAST R600 Rumours & Speculation Thread
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zgemboandislic
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I think that them having ties with AMD is also bullshit. The whole level505 IS just bullshit.
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
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Fudo on R600 delays. He basically claims the chip is ready to go, but AMD won't let ATI launch until they can ship in quantities, so an end of Q1 launch is now looking likely, with a PR launch before that.
I'm sure the 16 mem chip as well as a foot long board rumors are a gross understatement given a 512Mbit bus
Given that more than just one credible rumours float around about quite high power consumption at =/>800MHz, at over 1GHz you'd get a fancy egg boiler.
If you really want to trust that level505 crap (for which by the way if the ALU specs would be as they present them, be rather prepared for a huge disappointment) judging from the fillrates they listed the hypothetical sample they have should be clocked either at 820 or at 860MHz. Since some recent newsblurbs claim that clockspeed won't be announced until almost the last minute it might as well be quite a bit lower than implied by that level505 thingy.
vertex_shader
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Hard launch better from user aspect, but the other side its bad from PR aspect.
In this situation (other company dx10 cards in the market already) paper launch better solution i think from business aspect, or some official information will be enough to the users who's waiting for the R600 launch, when no information coming for weeks this users will be bored and buy a 8800gtx.
Users with money can't wait 5 months
It was/did?
Vr-zone says something about a 12" card for OEM's and a 9" card for end users.
http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4461
Historically (and they proved it again with G80), VR Zone has been pretty good with NV info, and pretty sh*tty with ATI info. Indeed, it's been my suspicion that most of their ATI info has actually come from NV sources or surrogates. But that looks fairly reasonable to me. I can still say "haven't heard any official launch date" because it's true, and thus we aren't under NDA.
If R600 ever appeared in the old TV show 'Reboot', that's what it would look like.
Secondly, what's with the power connectors on that board? One six-pin and one eight-pin?
I see this coming: "My R600 is longer than yours."
If R600 ever appeared in the old TV show 'Reboot', that's what it would look like.
Secondly, what's with the power connectors on that board? One six-pin and one eight-pin?
Yeah, that rumor on the 8-pin connector came out some time ago. Time for a new PSU
.But still, this rendering looks too detailed to be a fake.
Also, VR-Zone mentions a little tidbit about G84 and G88 (?) in June.
Given that the last 3" of that render looks to be just fan perhaps the oem is 12" single slot and the retail one is 9" Dual slot with the fan in a more traditional position.
Not quite sure why but I could imagine it would be possible that box shifters would prefer a singe slot solution - avoiding having to sell systems where a motherboard slot is unusable or form factor advatages perhaps.
Not quite sure why but I could imagine it would be possible that box shifters would prefer a singe slot solution - avoiding having to sell systems where a motherboard slot is unusable or form factor advatages perhaps.
vertex_shader
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Vrzone very nv pro site, they write BS many times about ATi cards.
Anyone can make a graphics like this for 10$
The graphics looks weird anyway, why the cooling area longer than the PCB?
Its looks longer than Sapphire "godfather" http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/3519_large_godfather2.jpg
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