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The Tech Report - R600 derivatives to support GDDR4 RAM, PCIe 2.0?

According to HKEPC, the RV630 will roll out in three different forms: a high-end model dubbed "Konhinoor" will have up to 512MB of GDDR4 memory, a 128-bit memory interface, PCI Express 2.0 support, native CrossFire support, video input support, and 121-128W power consumption. A derivative code-named "Orloff" will have similar features but no video input support, only 256MB of GDDR3 memory, and power consumption of less than 93W. Finally, a third derivative known as "Sefadu" will have no PCIe 2.0 support, no CrossFire support, no video input, up to 512MB of GDDR2 RAM, and <75W power consumption.
HKEPC says "Sefadu" will arrive in May, but that it hasn't heard of a release time frame for the other two RV630 flavors. All three variants will supposedly be based on 65nm process technology, though.

 

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AMD ATI RV610 to support 'single-channel DDR only' | Reg Hardware
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[ RV610 budget DirectX 10 graphics chip ] ... the 65nm chip will connect to memory across a 64-bit bus, though it will handle DDR 2, DDR 3, GDDR 3 and GDDR 4 memory types.
Like the RV630, the RV610 will be capable of working on PCI Express 2.0 add-in cards, though AMD's initial four RV610-based board reference designs are likely to operate with the current generation of PCIe. The report reckons AMD is readying two families of RV610 board: 'Antelope' and 'Falcon', each in full-height and low-profile forms. All four have HDMI, dual-link DVI support and s-video outputs, to which the full-height boards add a VGA port. All four boards support HDCP.
The Antelopes are designed around 128MB of DDR 2 memory, but can access system RAM too, to boost the overall frame buffer space. The Falcons have 256MB of GDDR 3 video memory. Video processing is apparently handled by an on-GPU Universal Video Decoder (UVD) chip, as per the RV630.
Only the full-height Falcon board is down as possessing an internal CrossFire connector - the other three boards do multi-GPU rendering over the PCIe bus

 

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VR-Zone : Technology Beats - ATi RV610 Series & Performance

... RV610 will have at least 2 SKUs; RV610PRO and RV610LE. We heard there could be RV610XT and RV610HM at a later stage. ...
... RV610PRO uses a 6 layers PCB with a TDP of 35W. It has 256MB GDDR3 memory clocked at 700MHz. RV610PRO support Crossfire and hardware H.264 decode. RV610LE on the other hand uses a 4 layers PCB with TDP at 25W. It has 128MB GDDR2 memory clocked at 400MHz and sports HyperMemory Technology ...
Also, we have gotten hold of an early performance test of the RV610LE running on 965 board with Core 2 Extreme X6800 processor. At 1024x768 resolution, 3DMark05 scores stood at 20xx and at 1280x1024 resolution, 3DMark06 scores stood at 12xx. The performance suffers largely due to its 64-bit memory interface and also drivers aren't optimized yet ...