Graphic Cards R600 News Thread

AMD preps lineup including 1024 HD baby

"Five models at launch, HD Audio and HDMI supported all the way"

The HD models really have a reason to be called that, since from RV610LE chip to R600 boards, the HD Audio codec is present, and HDMI support is native. However, there are some video processing differences, such as a repeat of RV510/530 vs. R580 scenario, albeit with a different GPU mix.
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The R600 512MB is the grand finale. R600 is HD 2900 XT, as our Wily already disclosed. This board packs 512MB of GDDR-3 memory from Samsung, and offers same or a little better performance than 8800GTX, at a price point of 8800GTS.
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That sounds intresting ... if true :O
 
WE HAVE CONFIRMATION of AMD's final naming convention for the R600. And the top end card is now the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT.

The new series of cards, including the 2600, will drop the 'X' that has accompanied the model number since the X800, and harks back to the heady days of the Radeon 9700 series.

The HD has been added to the name to indicate the card's ability to process video and audio through HDMI outputs and onboard sound chips.

The HD 2900 XT will support a massive 24x anti-aliasing, we're led to believe. Can anyone seriously tell the difference between this and the 8800's 16x? Will you need a projection screen 60-inch wide to see the difference? µ
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Meet the Radeon HD
 
The problem is that company then plans a three-week silence period in the run up to launch. Nothingh from teh shindig should be posted until May 14th, our sources reveal. In today's world of immediate information, the three weeks in question sound very weird.

We learned that this could be due to late delivery of 65nm RV610LE/610XT/630Pro/630XT chips, but everything should be available in massive quantities.
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Radeon HD to launch on May 14th
 
Here are some benchies from 3D Mark 06 and Crysis Demo :huh: ...

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Some more benchies here : techPowerUp! News :: More Radeon HD2900XT benchmarks - Crysis demo and 3DMark06 again - Update
 
leomax said:
Something went wrong there i think,
Crysis comes under TWIMTBP and its getting owned by a 2900XT? :detect2:
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lol that has been happening for years now.
Even Far Cry was TWIMTBP and 9800 kicked the hell out of Geforce FX back then :p
 
Well,as i can remember ,farcry was a diff position,nvidia managed to get in TWIMTBP at last minute.Whereas this is TWIMTBP from day1..
 
Soo? What difference it will make?

Game companies rarely put company specific optimisation which are biased. Yes in some games GPU specific optimisations are there but that covers both the sides and companies.

If a particular hardware is better then it will run game better. Its as simple as that.

TWIMTB is just an advertising campaign from NV side where devs get some money to put nvidia logo in their game.

That never means this game must perform better on NVIDIA hardware.

Over last few years its funny that more games with TWIMTB play better on ATI hardware compared to equivalent NV hardware.
 
Well,
Game companies can indeed optimize their game for some specific hardware and there are several examples from the past.valve,id etc.Tho they might not agree with us.
They exploit the better part of the hardware,in past nvidia cards owned opengl games and Ati had better and efficient PS performance.

When a new architecture is intro'ed the balance might be upset tho..
 
We hear that Sound Physics has been buzzed for quite some time, and we are massaging our contacts to bring you as much detail as possible. It seems that R600 GPU will be less CPU-bound than it has been in the past, since a lot more parts of the scene will be calculated and rendered on the GPU itself.

R600 combines graphics with audio and physics process in a whole another way, and those 64 vect5D shader pipelines yield in 320 scalar units total, directly comparable to Nvidia's 128 scalar ones. Now, 128 scalar units at 1.35 GHz is still a tad more efficient that ATi's own 320 at 740 MHz, but ATi's pipeline is more complex than it was previously thought.

Who'd ahev thought that ATI would overtake Nvidia in a race to multi-purpose GPU and make consoles of today with their PowerPC CPUs look so 1990s? Perhaps R600 was really worth the wait after all.
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Sound and physics are the buzzwords for AMD's R600
 
x2600xt in action ...

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China site, pcinlife has leaked a series of pictures of the upcoming card Radeon HD2600XT.

According to the author, it is saiid that the board uses 256MB of GDDR4. The 65nm manufacturing process GPU comes with a BIOS dated Apr 4th. Max wattage is 80W or lower. There is no additional power connector unlike the NVIDIA 8600GTS. In one of the 1080P video tests, cpu utilisation is lower than 5% on the average. That is amazing.
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More pics here : http://my.ocworkbench.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=410631#post410631

Source : Radeon HD2600 gets snapped
 
Radeon late edition saga continues

R600XTX, the 1024 MB GDDR 4 card, has been pushed to the next quarter. This is just one in a series of ATI's failures, but of course DAAMIT will call this a strategic decision. R600XTX won't see the face of retail / etail stores till Q3 2007.

We know that something went wrong with the samples and that the there were some severe performance problems with the latest batch of GDDR 4 cards. Basically 512 MB DDR3 version with 1600 MHz memory was beating the GDDR4 version with 1024 MB of GDDR 4 memory clocked at 2200 MHz.

That cannot be good as the GDDR4 card is much more expensive to build or sell. The worst part is that there is no any big performance difference between 512 GDDR 3 card and 1024 MB GDDR. The trouble is that 1 GB of GDDR 4 at 2200 MHz costs you a lot of money, so ATI at least wants to save some money. It will launch this card after Geforce 8800 Ultra but remember, don’t expect too much.
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Fudzilla - Radeon HD 2900 XTX pushed to Q3

The DirectX 10-supporting AMD R600 graphics chip made on 65nm will be available on the market on May 19 after months of delay, according to sources with Taiwan's graphics card distributors.

The R600 had originally been scheduled for release in the second half of 2006. A rescheduled launch for March this year was again delayed by a serious shortage of GDDR4 memory, the sources said.

The sources pointed out that AMD will skip the 80nm process and make the R600 at 65nm. The R610 and R630, which will also adopt a 65nm process, will also be released in June, the sources added.
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AMD R600 to be available in May
 
raj_pol said:
DailyTech - ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX, Doomed from the Start

Read this article...The gtx whips amd's ass..

Bye bye AMD
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I really hope that some screw up happened there with the benchies and they gonna update with new scores, else that is real sad news!!! :(

ATI comes with the R600 6 months after the 8800GTX and still gets whipped????? :huh: :huh:

This is Madness!!!!! :mad:

ATI's flagship card not performing well would seem like great news for Nvidia fanbois but in the long run this is gonna hurt everyone as it translates to less price cuts from Nvidia.. Moreover with AMD not doin that well in the processor dept this could be the last straw!
 
Im sure there is some kinda error in the benchmarks.. It was only yest that HD 2900XT was kicking 8800GTS and now there is a huge diff in the comparison with 8800GTX...

Update: I see that they r using an OC'd 8800GTX in comparison to the ATI cards!!
 
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