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Monday, 01 January 2007 00:47 |
ATI's answer to the Nvidia's current flagship model, the 8800, seems to be ready. This GPU is being called the R600 and 22 January is the rumored release date. Although Nvidia were able to capture the Christmas market with the early release of their 8800 series cards, in the long run, the R600 might take the crown away from Nvidia!
The only details available apart from the release date and a US$650 price tag (retail), are the specifications which are listed below:
- 64 4-Way SIMD Unified Shaders, 128 Shader Operations/Cycle
- 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs
- 512 bit Memory Controller, full 32 bit per chip connection
- GDDR3 at 900 MHz clock speed (January)
- GDDR4 at 1.1 GHz clock speed (March, revised edition)
- Total bandwidth 115 GB/s on GDDR3
- Total bandwidth 140 GB/s on GDDR4
- Consumer memory support 1024 MB
- DX10 full compatibility with draft DX10.1 vendor-specific cap removal (unified programming)
- 32FP internal processing
- Hardware support for GPU clustering (any 2^n number, not limited to Dual or Quad-GPU)
- Hardware DVI-HDCP support (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection)
- Hardware Quad-DVI output support (Limited to workstation editions)
- 230W
We can conclude from these specs that the R600 is clearly more powerful than the G80 platform. Stay with us, as we update with more info on this next-gen graphics solution, as soon as its available.
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