Computex 07: There is no 65 nm R600
We learned a disturbing bit of news and that is that all the informations including the “leaks within AMD†about the 65 nanometre were false.
AMD wants to find some high profile mole(s) and deliberatly planted these two codenams and a chip specification. Fudzilla has seen these documents and can confirm that there were at least a few mentions of R650 or R670, but I have to dissapoint you all, as it is not real.
R600 is the best you will see from ATI until Christmas and you will have to find your peace with it.
However RV670 exists.
Computex 07: There is no 65 nm R600
We learned a disturbing bit of news and that is that all the informations including the “leaks within AMD” about the 65 nanometre were false.
AMD wants to find some high profile mole(s) and deliberatly planted these two codenams and a chip specification. Fudzilla has seen these documents and can confirm that there were at least a few mentions of R650 or R670, but I have to dissapoint you all, as it is not real.
R600 is the best you will see from ATI until Christmas and you will have to find your peace with it.
However RV670 exists.
We are 3 weeks away from "Q3 2007". You think we might have heard something about it if a 1 billion transistor chip was just a few months away from release at this point?
My wooden cube says H108 for R650/70/whateverty.
BTW, I doubt ever-so-slightly that Dave is going to reveal AMD's release schedule for unannounced products - but I am a pessimist.
This is putting additional pressure on AMD as well, with the hyper-clocked GDDR-4 version of R600. Even though we heard on several occasions from DAAMIT that the product has been cancelled, partners are preparing the card for the market. From our talks with partners and game developers, we learned that 512MB is abysmal amount of memory for today's world of FullHD and XHD resolutions.
So it seems the 1GB version is required for the ATI R600, but it remains to be seen whether anyone will bring out 1GB GDDR-3 boards.
What and how could ATI/AMD improve R650 core, since it will be shrink at 65nm tech, which means it will have more space to boost performance.
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Will it? If, and that's a fairly decent sized if, another big R6 chip shows up, don't automatically expect it to be 65nm.
Computex 07: There is no 65 nm R600
We learned a disturbing bit of news and that is that all the informations including the “leaks within AMD†about the 65 nanometre were false.
AMD wants to find some high profile mole(s) and deliberatly planted these two codenams and a chip specification. Fudzilla has seen these documents and can confirm that there were at least a few mentions of R650 or R670, but I have to dissapoint you all, as it is not real.
R600 is the best you will see from ATI until Christmas and you will have to find your peace with it.
However RV670 exists.
First page of this thread:
So, where is the news?
Next time when you quote something from fruitzilla don't forget the link
BTW. its only fruitzilla, so.... :smile:
Follow-up, in the form of someone actually selling such a card (in OEM form, I think):As we don't seem to have an R600 rumours and speculation thread any more, I'll post this here....
The Inquirer still reckons there will be a 1GB R600 card. The story is about 8800GTX Ultra prices being cut to sub-$600.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40128
They also claim Sapphire is about to launch a 512MB GDDR4 R600 card:
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40160
This means 80nm, or 55nm, or any other choice?
Looking for r600 and 80nm, amd can't do anything with r600 on 80nm, they have months to try something but TSMC 80nm HS process failed with r600.
Didn't Dave Orton actually talk about the 650? Don't know about the process node though.