The LAST R600 Rumours & Speculation Thread

How much fillrate would it lose with 4 loops?

 

Will you be replacing your 8800? or is it Have you be replaced your 8800?

 

I guess I'll be shocked that I won't have much reason to be shocked after all (you may shoot me now LOL)

 

It was? I'm running a 1950 XTX and I hate its cooler as much as I hated the 1800/1900 design. Up, down, up, down. Tempted to just put that 1900 I installed the Zalman cooler on back in despite the (slight) performance difference.

 

Has D3D10.1 even been defined? And even if it existed at this point, nobody would care--all the G80s that wouldn't support it would relegate D3D10.1 to the same place as D3D 8.1.

 

So let's start decoding Geo's messages...

Overall performance less then a 100% increase over 8800...

But it could very well be around 50%...

So in other words, it's all pretty much positive isn't it?


P.S. I just can't decode the damn bandwidth statement!

 

Wow you're talented - you got a performance advantage of 50-100% just from those statements?

 

Didn't you hear about the brand new depleted uranium HSF it uses?

I'm still betting it's something to do with tiled based rendering. That was one of the more significant differences between standard GPUs and Xenos. Maybe they did a whole lot more than just decouple the ROPs. Besides for a lot of applications the ROPs are just wasted transistors. With the ROPs removed they'd have a general purpose processor that could be used for a whole lot of things.

One of the interesting features with EDRAM was that it had built in logic to handle a lot of the AA operations.

 

Well what would be a positive surprise to you? 20% performance advantage six months later? Come on! It just HAS to be around 50%. I never said 50-100% though. I said less than a 100 and probably around 50!

 

Positive surprise would be a $300 sticker price...but fantasies aside, I'd be pretty happy with enough spare horsepower to leave me confident of good framerates at 1920x1200 2xAA in any title till Spring 2008. There's always room for cool architectural stuff for us to geek out over too

 

To expect too much in order to get frustrated afterwards is a form of masochism. The more conservative one holds his expectations the more chances he has to get pleasantly surprised.

 

On the other hand, artificially lowering your expectations isn't exactly to going to magnify your delight if they're easily exceeded

 

Coolers can be had cheaply! Get one for the new card. Just be careful when you replace it so that you don't void the warranty. I'm a really big fan of... cooling solutions .

 

I guess for you the more the merrier doesn't have much value then.

Seriously now to expect +50% across the board is a mighty tall order. IMHO of course.

 

Yeah true. But I'm all played out...waiting for G80, waiting for R600. Must be getting old. In any case the waiting game is tiresome, which is why geo really, really sucks right now

 

With great power (NDA) comes great responsibility (jealousy).

 

Tall order? The power of the understatement! Unless by "tall order" you mean "miracle from a parallel universe" ATI would probably sell their soul to average 50% increase in performance, let alone +50% across the board. But as a consumer, hey, if ATI can get 50% improvement across the board sign me up

 

I wonder if the long board is a dual GPU board.