Graphic Cards ATi "Fudo" with 24 plus pipelines ??

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ATI'S FUTURE R520 CHIP will end up with a minimum of twenty four pipelines. We are talking about an extremely big chip and it won't be a problem to plumb it with more than just twenty four pipes.

If we are talking about more than 300 million transistors in the chip that is 17 square mm small, we believe that we are talking about one of the biggest semiconductor chip for a computer ever built and it will be used for games.

We still cannot predict the exact number of pipelines of R520 chip. ATI placed 32 pipelines inside, but there is a chance that it will enable just 24 for a start. It will be a pure marketing decision but technically every R520 "Fudo" will have full 32 pipes. ATI can just keep these extra eight pipes for the later chip and enable them if necessary. If ATI's czars decide that they need more performance they will go with full 32 pipes.
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Omg ! This sounds too good to be true.........maybe it is..........
 
i think these chip makes, alredy have very advance technology going for them

but they are releasing it very slowly, so they can bank on evry pipeline :P and every mhz

i hope nvidia comes up with something similar :(
 
Well Sunny i would agree with you on this... They do have the tech but they release it only when they feel that thier marketshare is in danger... And yes dont worry... nVIDIA has G 70's and G80's which would feature 24 Pipes and 10 shaders... Wait till May 2005...
 
How far can they go though?Maybe 40 pipelines in the future.Wont they have to come up with some new technology after that?Otherwise they'll just have to keep increasing the size of the chip for more transistors.
 
They are already going DUAL GPU and SLI... There is something new coming up as PPU... read it in this month's CHIP...
 
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