AMD's R600 mysteries revealed

NamesDontMatter · Feb 14, 2007, 12:27 PM

"AMD's R600 mysteries revealed" Says TheINQ.net
First clarification TheINQ makes says that all cards will be 9' their will be no 12' variants. The picture of the card that made its rounds last week was not for a PC, what was it for? Well it was for Apple. According to TheINQ "At present, there is actually only one design for both OEM/SI and retail/AIBs, and that one is 8-pin/6-pin. You can use 6+6-pin configuration, but if you do not plug 8-pin/6-pin, the ATI Catalyst driver suite will forbid you to enter the "Overdrive Zone"." This means it is coming with a fully legal overclocking mode. Current clock estimates are 1 and 1.1GHz GDDR-4 memory in DDR mode (which translates to 2.0-2.2 GHz), the actual GPU clock will be set at 800Mhz.

TheINQ also states, "These estimates are for the A13 revision. As we wrote quite some time ago, AMD/ATI decided to re-spin the chip to solve some problems it had with the product. It turns out that those problems involved engineers trying to get as high a clock as possible and to try to lower the power consumption, which is pretty steep right now - but still within do-able limits."

TheINQ also notes that the R600 will include "Smart" bios that can detect thermal leakage and throttle down the core in case of this event.

Source: TheINQ.com

EviLZeD · Feb 14, 2007, 12:38 PM

woow i thought 12" was alittle tooo long lol the bios sounds neat

EastCoasthandle · Feb 14, 2007, 12:53 PM

The power consumption will require a lot of you to buy a new PSU. If you think your Antec neo, etc will do, you are diluted.

Easy Rhino · Feb 14, 2007, 12:53 PM

the news just keeps getting better!

C.Ash · Feb 14, 2007, 01:52 PM

"their will be no 12" variants"

TXcharger · Feb 14, 2007, 01:59 PM

i think thats a typo and its supposed to be 9 feet not 9 inches

mandelore · Feb 14, 2007, 02:10 PM

Ahhhh, great stuff, 12"

I guess it was just bragging, eh?

Saurian · Feb 14, 2007, 02:14 PM

The funny thing is, as delicious as this all sounds, honestly for those of us running X8xx/FX5xxx/6xxx cards still, honestly the X2600 series looks like heaven, ya know! Cheap enough to allow for the switch to PCIe to finally stop being put off for a decent graphics card to boot! The question is though...how low can you go and still run Crysis.

mandelore · Feb 14, 2007, 02:20 PM

Probably pretty low, just the characters will be replaced bystick men and the trees airbrushed on using microsoft paint

WarEagleAU · Feb 14, 2007, 03:01 PM

This is much relief and good news. I wish they would have worked to get the power consumption really low. If they could make cards that use like 120 to 130 watts, that would be fine. Not these 200+ watters.

mandelore · Feb 14, 2007, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WarEagleAU

This is much relief and good news.

Yeah, think all ATI users here gave a collective Sigh of relief

ATI..

Namslas90 · Feb 14, 2007, 03:24 PM

None of this should realy suprise any of you. The first reports are always wrong!!

petepete · Feb 14, 2007, 04:15 PM

That previous chart in chinese or whatever was SO fake..

rhythmeister · Feb 15, 2007, 01:40 PM

I'm not diluted, I'm full strength freeze-dried maniac...i.e. deluded

Protius · Feb 15, 2007, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mandelore

Yeah, think all ATI users here gave a collective Sigh of relief

ATI..

ditto

Feb 14, 2007, 12:27 PM	#1
NamesDontMatter Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Connecticut, United States Posts: 758 (0.27/day) Thanks: 12 Thanked 27 Times in 19 Posts System Specs	AMD's R600 mysteries revealed "AMD's R600 mysteries revealed" Says TheINQ.net First clarification TheINQ makes says that all cards will be 9' their will be no 12' variants. The picture of the card that made its rounds last week was not for a PC, what was it for? Well it was for Apple. According to TheINQ "At present, there is actually only one design for both OEM/SI and retail/AIBs, and that one is 8-pin/6-pin. You can use 6+6-pin configuration, but if you do not plug 8-pin/6-pin, the ATI Catalyst driver suite will forbid you to enter the "Overdrive Zone"." This means it is coming with a fully legal overclocking mode. Current clock estimates are 1 and 1.1GHz GDDR-4 memory in DDR mode (which translates to 2.0-2.2 GHz), the actual GPU clock will be set at 800Mhz. TheINQ also states, "These estimates are for the A13 revision. As we wrote quite some time ago, AMD/ATI decided to re-spin the chip to solve some problems it had with the product. It turns out that those problems involved engineers trying to get as high a clock as possible and to try to lower the power consumption, which is pretty steep right now - but still within do-able limits." TheINQ also notes that the R600 will include "Smart" bios that can detect thermal leakage and throttle down the core in case of this event. Source: TheINQ.com Last edited by NamesDontMatter; Feb 14, 2007 at 04:29 PM.

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