Graphic Cards ATI R590 said to ship next month

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Source : channelregister

ATI will launch its R590 chip early next month as the Radeon X1800 GTO with support for 256MB of graphics memory, according to internal roadmap information surreptitiously slipped to website DailyTech. The data suggests the part is an X1900 with a lower clock speed and an unknown set of features disabled.

X1800 GTO boards will retail for around $279, the source claimed.

The early March timeframe suggests the part will debut at CeBIT or just before. The show, which kicks off on March 9 in Hannover, Germany, is also expected to play host to the launch of Nvidia's next-generation part, the GeForce 7900 GTX.

The site's source also claimed that ATI's next-generation R600 part, expected to be fabbed at 80nm, will ship this coming October. The R590 has also been touted in the past as a 80nm die-shrink of the R580, better known as the basis of the Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition, X1900 XT and X1900 XTX.
 
Wow... ATi is really churning out the Products...

Will be interesting to what it compares with.

I think it should be on the lines of the 7800GT and x1800xl.. Right? :/..
 
goldenfrag said:
Wow... ATi is really churning out the Products...
Will be interesting to what it compares with.
I think it should be on the lines of the 7800GT and x1800xl.. Right? :/..
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Yep but being a 90nm part the prices will fall down more quickly.
 
Blade_Runner said:
Yep but being a 90nm part the prices will fall down more quickly.
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Its a 80 nm part, tho whatever the process how will it help prices help fall down more quickly?
Its supposed to have 12 pipelines i think and coupled with 80 nm the clocks should be pretty high and performance probably similar to a 7800 gs.
 
hunt3r said:
Its a 80 nm part, tho whatever the process how will it help prices help fall down more quickly?
Its supposed to have 12 pipelines i think and coupled with 80 nm the clocks should be pretty high and performance probably similar to a 7800 gs.
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The r600 is a 80nm part, the smaller the fab process the more gpu/chips can be yeilded per wafer which in turn makes it cheaper.
 
Yes thats pretty obvious, smaller the process more chips per wafer. hence it would cost lower in the first place. it wont affect the price dropping down more quickly at all
 
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