R580 and RD580 by end of january?

[ZeGermans]

Just curious if they're getting released soon. That's all

 

[SickBeast]

Apparently. Don't hold your breath tho. The Inquirer is posting this news. They said that R520 would be out over a year ago with 32 pipelines, and that the ArtX team were making it. We all know how that panned out. :roll:

 

[Soccerman06]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
Apparently. Don't hold your breath tho. The Inquirer is posting this news. They said that R520 would be out over a year ago with 32 pipelines, and that the ArtX team were making it. We all know how that panned out. :roll:

Dont forget dual core and have unified shaders, running with 800mhz core and 1800mhz mem

 

[fierydemise]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
Apparently. Don't hold your breath tho. The Inquirer is posting this news. They said that R520 would be out over a year ago with 32 pipelines, and that the ArtX team were making it. We all know how that panned out. :roll:

It isn't just the Inq whose been spreading rumors, AT said so too.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: fierydemise

Originally posted by: SickBeast
Apparently. Don't hold your breath tho. The Inquirer is posting this news. They said that R520 would be out over a year ago with 32 pipelines, and that the ArtX team were making it. We all know how that panned out. :roll:

It isn't just the Inq whose been spreading rumors, AT said so too.

Well then the techies of this world need to stop listening to the little birds chirping things in their ears and wait to hear things from the horse's mouth.

There is no word as of yet confirming that the R580 rumours were indeed started by a horse. :thumbsdown:

 

[Wreckage]

Originally posted by: ZeGermans
Just curious if they're getting released soon. That's all

When you can order one next day from Newegg, then you can believe it.

 

[Unkno]

there were a few websites confirming that it should be released by end of Jan....not just the inquirer

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: Unkno
there were a few websites confirming that it should be released by end of Jan....not just the inquirer

See fierydemise's post.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: SickBeast

Originally posted by: fierydemise

Originally posted by: SickBeast
Apparently. Don't hold your breath tho. The Inquirer is posting this news. They said that R520 would be out over a year ago with 32 pipelines, and that the ArtX team were making it. We all know how that panned out. :roll:

It isn't just the Inq whose been spreading rumors, AT said so too.

Well then the techies of this world need to stop listening to the little birds chirping things in their ears and wait to hear things from the horse's mouth.

There is no word as of yet confirming that the R580 rumours were indeed started by a horse. :thumbsdown:

sure there were . . . AT news quoted ATi as saying 'end of January' for r580.

 

[johnnqq]

i was rooting for ati..but i just bought my 7800gt!

 

[a4000tdh]

I buy nVidia cards mainly cause of the price level (7800 gt can be had for 250 retail), but when it comes to performance and features ATI is the better one. But when u come to think of it ATI card's price is almost the same as nVidia because purevideo isn't free like AVIVO is. But most gamers buy cards to render graphics not to watch HDTV too bad ATI failed to realize that..

 

[apoppin]

ATI may rename the R580 the X1900

Viva Las Vegas in first week of January will bring us Intel's Core (ex-Yonah) and the Viiv platform. However, what's interesting is that the 3D wars will continue as well.

ATI's recently shipped reference boards with R580 chip to its partners and is organising road-tours showing of the new product as we write these lines. The PCB looks almost identically to "old" R520 boards, with same cooling solutions and so on. Since the R580 chip is pin-compatible with R520, there was very small number of modifications ATi needed to do. As far as the product line-up goes, you can expect X1900XL, X1900XT and All-in-Wonder X1900XL boards.

While the first two can get their counterparts from Nvidia, the All-in-Wonder X1900 is going to be "zero competition board"; since nV still has no high-end products featuring TV tuners... and digital DVB-T with GeForce sounds like a pipe-dream.

As far for the mainstream part goes, RV560 is working quite nicely - the sources suggest introduction at same time as Green Goblin's 90 nanometer products: 7200, 7300 and 7600. Q1'06. The RV530 core was thoroughly modified in order to increase the performance, so it's no wonder the company has decided to call it X1700.

 

[Kalessian]

I like the speculation and rumors that theinq provide. It's half the fun. Don't say we should all just wait until official launches or whatever, that's boring.

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: Kalessian
I like the speculation and rumors that theinq provide. It's half the fun. Don't say we should all just wait until official launches or whatever, that's boring.

theinq is best thing since GPUs if you ask me.

 

[Leper Messiah]

Originally posted by: a4000tdh
I buy nVidia cards mainly cause of the price level (7800 gt can be had for 250 retail), but when it comes to performance and features ATI is the better one. But when u come to think of it ATI card's price is almost the same as nVidia because purevideo isn't free like AVIVO is. But most gamers buy cards to render graphics not to watch HDTV too bad ATI failed to realize that..

I've only seen one 7800GT at $250, and that was when I bought a bundle deal from newegg with a mobo...

 

[ZeGermans]

also, how is the RD580 going to be different, beyond dual full 16x slots? Any improvement in built-in RAID (nv supports raid-5 now without a seperate SI chip) or anything like that? High quality sound? Anything?

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: ZeGermans
also, how is the RD580 going to be different, beyond dual full 16x slots? Any improvement in built-in RAID (nv supports raid-5 now without a seperate SI chip) or anything like that? High quality sound? Anything?

Well, we know it won't have any ULI chips in it.

The dual 16x slots is a huge improvement and will allow cable-free SLI on the high end cards. I'm not sure what they're doing beyond that. People are hinting at a Vista-compliant GPU built into the motherboard.

 

[SheepMan]

Originally posted by: SickBeast

Originally posted by: ZeGermans
also, how is the RD580 going to be different, beyond dual full 16x slots? Any improvement in built-in RAID (nv supports raid-5 now without a seperate SI chip) or anything like that? High quality sound? Anything?

Well, we know it won't have any ULI chips in it.

The dual 16x slots is a huge improvement and will allow cable-free SLI on the high end cards. I'm not sure what they're doing beyond that. People are hinting at a Vista-compliant GPU built into the motherboard.

Hello, this is my first time posting here (or any forum for that matter ). I was under the impression that the ULi chip could be attached as a SB since the RD580 is a single chip, unlike the Nvidia counterpart. Also where did you hear about the Vista-Compliant GPU in the motherboard? I thought that wasnt until the R600.