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First look? ATI R600 DX10-compliant GPU |
Listed in: Rumors, Hardware Tags: ATI, DirectX, GPU, nVidia, pc gaming rumors
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Are we talking about ATI's answer to THE dehydration-inducing nVidia G80 here? Xbit labs have a couple of alleged sneak-peek pictures from Southeast Asian media of ATI's upcoming R600 graphics processing unit (GPU). And because they happen to be sneak peek pictures of a forthcoming chip, Xbit also has a ton of prior info and speculation about the performance specs of this blob of silicon. Are they enough to take on the G80?
Read on - unfortunately, because we don't have picture or video results of DX10 and a game running off the chip.
Previously released info already mention that the r600 is DirectX 10 compliant, and is said to run well beyond 650MHz – 700MHz. It possesses 64 unified shader processors, 16 texture units, and support for a high-speed GDDR4 memory controller. Rumors suggest that the R600 is produced using 80nm process technology - resulting into a more densely-packed GPU in that blob of silicon. ATI itself will not comment to questions from Xbit (or anyone else?) regarding the R600
Numbers upon numbers... ahh, brain pain. Unless ATI has some demo clips of Crysis and DX10 running on the R600 that someone else can leak, or someone does a side-by-sider between this and the G80, we can't draw any definitive performance or results conclusions. So enjoy the supposed sneak peek of the R600 chip itself, it's all we got to go with for now.
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