Saturday, February 17th 2007
AMD’s Final R600 Specs
The R600 is set to become AMD/ATI's flagship product as they move into the DirectX 10 era, and the company has now announced the final details of the R600 GPU. Although there are still contradicting reports concerning the existence of a 12" OEM version of the card, it is now clear that the first X2x00 series cards will be the X2900 XTX and the X2900 XT, with the XTX version being released on 30th March and the XT about a month later. The R600 will feature 700 million transistors (the X1900 series cards had 384 million), a 512-bit memory interface and support for both GDDR3 and GDDR4. The retail version of the X2900XTX is expected to have 1GB of Samsung GDDR4 memory and a vapour chamber cooler, with the XT using GDDR3 memory. Both cards will have native CrossFire support without the need for an external bridging cable or a master card, and HDMI will feature on both versions of the X2900.
Source:
DailyTech
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PS: I think thats why ATi/AMD keep the 'X' (Roman numeral for 10) on the beginning of the cards name (ie X2900XTX) because the card is then really called a '12900XTX' which is obviously 'higher' then 8900GTX....like I said its all psychological ;)
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When I was at school, a friend and I used to compete with the number of decimal places of Pi that we could remember. But that was just for a bit of nerdy fun, before PC's came along.
But to expect RETAIL CONSUMERS to have to remember such a convoluted naming convention is just completely bonkers.