Wednesday, August 22nd 2007
ATI HD 2950Pro (RV670) Cards - Specs Revealed
The good people over at VR-Zone have learned some valuable information about AMD/ATI's new mainstream video cards. According to them, the upcoming RV670 GPU is projected to run as fast as the current R600, but with lower GPU temps and TDP. AMD calls RV670 a Gaming Applications Processor which bridges 3D HD gap. RV670 is 55nm based, has 320 stream processors and a 256-bit memory interface. There will be 2 versions of RV670: Gladiator and Revival. Gladiator is clocked at 825MHz core and 1.2GHz memory while Revival is clocked at 750MHz core and 900MHz memory. Gladiator has 512MB of GDDR4 memory and Revival comes with either 256MB or 512MB of GDDR3 memory. These cards will be single slot and fully DX10.1/SM4.1 compliant. Both video cards will support PCI Express 2.0, UVD as well as the next generation Crossfire technology. RV670 is scheduled for sampling in September, with expected mass production in December 2007 or early 2008. RV670 will be officially known as Radeon HD 2950 Pro when launch and will probably priced between $199 to $249. ATI Radeon HD 2950 Pro will officially replace the Radeon X1950 Pro when released.
Source:
VR-Zone
36 Comments on ATI HD 2950Pro (RV670) Cards - Specs Revealed
The card does sound pretty sweet although I wonder if the pricing will be as nice for those of in the UK.
This reminds me actually that I am making my move back to ATI with the purchase of a X1900XT (8800gts wasn't getting used enough to warrent having it). :)
edit:"Today we have in our hands a Radeon HD 2900XT board manufactured by ASUS, which is of course based on the R600 core using an 80nm design process. This version features just 512MB of onboard GDDR3 memory clocked at 1656MHz using a 512-bit wide memory bus. Combined with a core clock of 757MHz"
So buswidth smaller, memory slower, but GDDR4 and core faster compensating slower memory clocks. 55nm based opposed to 80nm so it's still cooler while core is higher. Interesting, pro sounds to me a better card than xt xD
What is interesting though is the statement that it should be roughly the same performance wise as the R600. If that is true then what is the 2900XT doing with its memory bandwidth?! :wtf:
Now woo the fans and bring it out before that deadline.
AMD owes the enthusiast population some real time hardware......paper is good when laying them on the floor for your pet to use.:rolleyes:
odd that they're doing a MAX and a QuadGT, both should clock well
Where do they dig this shit up? We won't see 55nm for years.
And no, the 2900XT has a 512bit memory bus.
The fact is that GPUs have only recently gotten to 65nm. It will take at least another year until the high-end GPUs are 65nm. So 55nm is completely insane.
The 512-bit is horrible overkill. The 2950 Pro is a welcome adjustment if it's cheaper.
www.tsmc.com/download/english/a05_literature/3_65nm_55nm_Brochure_2007_Brochure_2007.pdf