Monday, April 21st 2008
AMD/ATI RV770 - Radeon HD 4 Series Almost Ready
ATI is moving ahead the launch of its next-generation video processors, as reported by TG Daily. Despite its previous faliures in the graphics business and $8 million loss in the first quarter of this year - AMD's president and chief operating officer Dirk Meyer stated that the company will roll out a significant number of products in May ahead of schedule, including the new RV770 and mobile (M88) graphics parts. RV770 will launch as Radeon HD 4800 and will make its way into the FireStream stream processor and FireGL workstation cards. Both GDDR3 and GDDR5 memories ranging from 256MB to 1024MB will be supported by the chip, but ATI itself will only be offering GDDR5 cards with 256-bit memory controller. The Radeon HD 4850 version is set to come to market with an 800+ MHz core (the final clock has not been specified yet and will not be available until the final qualification is completed), while the 4870 will be the first mass-production GPU with a clock speed higher than 1GHz. The graphics processor itself will integrate more texture memory units (TMUs) - 32 in RV770 against 16 in R6xx. Expect mass availability of RV770 cards soon after their announcement in May.
Source:
TG Daily
72 Comments on AMD/ATI RV770 - Radeon HD 4 Series Almost Ready
On the upside, their new products rolling out should put them back in the saddle for awhile..
this is what i want to hear...cant wait to see the numbers!
this seriously just made my day!
2 x 4870x2 FTW !
ATI may find itself with a little spending cash at the end of this year if they keep up their recent fortune.. These cards look sic!!:rockout:
May look to swapping my 2900Pro(flashed XT) to a 4870 :P should be a nice boost hehe.
Although I wounder what temps would be like when clocked over 1GHz!?
If they said 500Mhz clock but with 512 memory bus and 1024 universal shader units, and 75W total consumption, then I'd be much more impressed.
One of these days, GPUs will be user-upgradeable, as will the ram.
"Yeah, I just dropped in the 35nm version of my old core, and my temps are way lower."