Tuesday, February 10th 2009
AMD Lists Unreleased Graphics Processors
AMD has given a glimpse of its arsenal to counter rival NVIDIA in their never-ending battle for supremacy. The company listed some of its upcoming Mobility Radeon series graphics products, that include portions of its M9x series. Parts belonging to this series, namely M93 and M97 are based on the company's upcoming RV740 graphics processor, which is built on the newer 40 nm manufacturing process. The products were listed as supported by existing Catalyst drivers.
Additionally, AMD seems to have validated its RD890 platform core-logic (chipset), by the PCI SIG. The validation can be found here, listed under "Root Complex". Ideally the RD890 should go into making the AMD 890FX northbridge. The fact that existing drivers support the upcoming graphics processor, and that the new core-logic gained validation, point at the possibility of them being ready to be introduced into the market.
Source:
X-bit Labs
Additionally, AMD seems to have validated its RD890 platform core-logic (chipset), by the PCI SIG. The validation can be found here, listed under "Root Complex". Ideally the RD890 should go into making the AMD 890FX northbridge. The fact that existing drivers support the upcoming graphics processor, and that the new core-logic gained validation, point at the possibility of them being ready to be introduced into the market.
14 Comments on AMD Lists Unreleased Graphics Processors
Please? :P
it just has some special tweaks for PCIe and has an extra 4 PCIe lanes compared to RD790 (790FX)
"point at the possibility of them being totally based on the current generation of gpu and we should expect minor performance improvement."