Thursday, September 20th 2007
AMD/ATI RV670 Ships Next Month, Comes in Two Versions
AMD's new RV670 will have two versions; RV670 XT and RV670 PRO, named "Gladiator" and "Revival". Both new GPUs will power Radeon HD 2950 XT and Radeon HD 2950 PRO video cards when released. Gladiator will feature 512MB of GDDR4 memory clocked at 1.2GHz, and 825MHz clocked core. Revival will come in 256MB or 512MB GDDR3 flavors, with 750MHz core clock and 900MHz memory clock speeds. Both GPUs will be made using 55nm technology, with support for DirectX 10.1, Shader Model 4.1, PCI-E 2.0, UVD and next generation CrossFire technology. In addition, RV670 XT will be manufactured by AMD while the RV670 PRO will be produced by other manufacturers (not specified). The new GPUs will be released by the end of 2007, or in the beginning of the next year. The information HARDSPELL is reporting is not confirmed by any official source close to AMD or ATI, keep it in mind while reading.
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30 Comments on AMD/ATI RV670 Ships Next Month, Comes in Two Versions
Those will only be out for a short while.
This sounds like a cool card. I wonder if it is taking the R700s place.
As for 55nm , its been know/talked about for awhile now. Though all is rummer till AMD says so.
As far as TSMC is concernered, the article seems to be focusing on GPU manufacturing, rather than the actual card manufacturing. I could be wrong, but I've not heard a word, rumour, or otherwise of AMD fabs being utilised for GPU manufacturing. I've read the speculation of future AMD gpu's being made on the 55nm process, but this is usually TSMC's process technology.
www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/AMD_Technology_Analyst_Day_News_Summary_FINAL.pdf