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R650
R700
Let the speculation begin
Well, I for one am happy they are increasing the texture power, and also start to think its really pointless to buy HD2900XT with such a better card coming in 6 months, which gives them ample time to perfect their drivers
I know I know "you can play the waiting game forever" but what I mean is with all these drivers issues, there really is no point in buying the card now, since by the time they are fixed R650 should be launching
Our sources confirmed that ATI is working hard to release its R650 chip. The 65 nanometre chip is getting closer to launch day by day and aims for some high clocks.
This won't just be a simple die shrink of an existing marchitecture as ATI plans to redesign some parts of the chip. The major architectural difference is that R650 will have more texture power as this was recognizes as one of the weakest points of R600.
ATI aims for higher clocks, closer to 1,000MHz and obviously it will improve the usage of the available bandwidth.
R700
We got confirmation that the R700, a chip that is scheduled for the 1H of 2008, is going to be manufactured at 55 nanometre. The 55 nanometre process is an optical shrink of the 65 nanometre process and it is the logical step for the graphics guys. The CPU guys will go from 65 to 45 nanometre instantly, but the CPU guys didn't use 80 nanometre either as they decided to go from 90 to 65 nanometre.
Our knowledgeable sources also confirmed that R700 is a multi core design and DAAMIT calls it Multi Core Unified Architecture. This sounds like a couple of cores stitched together in a high end chip and a single core for a small chip.
Let the speculation begin
Well, I for one am happy they are increasing the texture power, and also start to think its really pointless to buy HD2900XT with such a better card coming in 6 months, which gives them ample time to perfect their drivers
I know I know "you can play the waiting game forever" but what I mean is with all these drivers issues, there really is no point in buying the card now, since by the time they are fixed R650 should be launching