The NEXT LAST R600 Rumours & Speculation Thread

TBH having followed Sampsa's work since the beginning, even though he was invited to ATI's OC'ing show etc, he hasn't been tied to ATI the same way Kingpin seems to be to nV, not even close, and Sampsa has used both GF's and Radeons always.
Macci on the other hand, well, the guy works for AMD nowadays, I think that tells enough

 

Reading thru AMD's GDC slides, I under the the asumption that "Whiteout" was coded on the Frost Bite engine. Or maybe everybody knew that all along?

 

We know what whatever happens, AMD will have their hand forced by the 17th april release of Nvidia lower end parts (I think Fuad got trolled wrt the delay). Its serious now.

 

Me too. I'm tired of GX2's. Double cores just to take the performance crown is weak and boring. Hopefully Kingpin has something more exciting in his LN2 testbed.

More OT in the R600 thread.

 

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2099141&postcount=61
24k in 06 is just out there. And it looks like a single 8800GTX not 2 as 06 only reports one.

 

No it's not, it's SLI.

http://overclockingpin.com/scores.html

 

Like I said, "while breaking Overklokk's 24k record" [wink]
And it's SLI

 

No wonder these guys get jobs at NV/AMD. Very good PR, and guys like Macci knows how to torture a GPU.

 

. . .Again some Link .

 

Yaay, it's not loud! That obviously means it shares nothing in common with NV30

 

(lol)

 

maybe his spell check has the same disease he has?

 

I'm glad to see this thread has livened up again.

Sounds like it. No other source I've seen has confirmed what he said. Not even the Inq. Unlike all his other R600 news which is semi-common knowledge/rumors he's just reposting, he's alone in this. When the only person saying it is Fuad, I run the other way.

He's probably right about the cooler's loudness though. nVidia did a good job keeping theirs quiet, I don't see why ATI can't too. Plus their cooler looks very elaborate, so I'd expect it to do a better job cooling at similar acoustics.

 

Actually it wasn't Fuad, it was Charlie at the Inq:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38500

Not that it makes it any more reliable..

 

Some more fuel on the fire beyond guys.


I have been reading up on RD790 on pretty much every artical I can get my hands on. Has Hyper transport 3.0, HTX support, on board memory in the north bridge to cut down latency, but most of all, has 2 PCIe 2.0 sockets and has a grand total of 52 PCIe lanes.

Now I want to know why is ATi bringing out PCIe 2.0 already? RD790 is slated for a June/july release which is right after R600. PCIe 2.0 cards can work backwards with PCIe 1.0 slots. I'm really starting to think R600 is a PCIe 2.0 card... which makes it a really great investment in the long run.

http://www.dvhardware.net/article15911.html

 

As i said before, PCIe 2.0 additional bandwidth is of smaller importance the higher you go in the GPU price ladder.

 

We get that from our Asian office and customers all the time (crush rather than crash).

At first I'd correct people, but eventually it became obvious that's just the english word they use for when software breaks.

 

Although if rumors are true that R600 can do bridgeless crossfire, than PCIE 2.0's additional bandwidth may be the only thing that allows it.

Regards,
SB

 

ah interesting!