Sunday, July 22nd 2007
AMD/ATI Planning new mid-range video card: the RV670
If you look at the current offerings from AMD/ATI, you can see that there is quite a large gap between midrange and high-end video cards. In contrast to the previous offerings, where the gap between X1950GT and X1950XTX was somewhat small, the Radeon 2900XT is easily two to three times as powerful as the Radeon 2600XT. Fortunately, AMD/ATI is planning to remedy this by developing the RV670. The current rumors say that it will be a 65nm chip, clocked similarly to the HD 2900, but with an unknown amount of ROP's, or TMU's. We should hear more about this chip in Q3, and if all goes well, it will be released by this Christmas.
Source:
Nordic Hardware
11 Comments on AMD/ATI Planning new mid-range video card: the RV670
When AMD/ATI merged, did they forget the basics of having products at each price point. unbelievable.
It would be nice to have something a bit faster than the 2600XT and a bit cheaper than the 2900XT.
Christmas time this year is looking to be promising to use geeks. :cool:
I hope they have a 2900xtx coming up soon or NV is just going to keep spanking them:slap:
HD2950PRO Ftw, since its an RV it HAS to have 55nm at the most!
but im talking about the highest end chips, always expensive, and the highest end ATI cards are just cheaper than when they released their x1900xtx cards. which is great for us