Tuesday, May 26th 2009
AMD to Unleash R800, RV870, RV840 and RV810 Within 2009
Graphics major AMD is set to unleash a near-complete lineup of DirectX 11 compliant 40 nm GPUs within 2009. The lineup begins with the entry-level RV810, all the way up to R800 (a supposedly dual-RV870 accelerator). Along the way are two of AMD's key GPUs at the start of its DirectX 11 conquest: the high-performance RV870, and mainstream-performance RV840. The two succeed RV770/RV790 and RV740 respectively. A full-range lineup also means that apart from the RV740, the company will be sourcing three more GPUs from its foundry partners.
Preliminary specifications of the RV870 point at it to have 1200 stream processors, and 143 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The GPU may feature in the Radeon HD 5800 series, and in a pair as R800, possibly Radeon HD 5870 X2. No specifications of the RV840 or RV810 GPUs surfaced from the sources.
Sources:
Hardware-Infos, Expreview
Preliminary specifications of the RV870 point at it to have 1200 stream processors, and 143 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The GPU may feature in the Radeon HD 5800 series, and in a pair as R800, possibly Radeon HD 5870 X2. No specifications of the RV840 or RV810 GPUs surfaced from the sources.
115 Comments on AMD to Unleash R800, RV870, RV840 and RV810 Within 2009
i heard it has a 1 hour battery life time:laugh:
Anyway, this WILL be beast, hope it will make closer to Nvidia = lower prices.
Lower TPD, will allow 3 gpu's on a single card ?5870X3? :D
with just a 33% increasement in shader/rop/power, they will have a smaller DIE, lower TPD, even lower cost
Price them high as 4870 retailed, ati is for alot of cash till GTX300 comes out, with 512 bit memory bus, and a big ass DIE, sure gonna cost alot!
nvidia goes for the crown, ati goes for the crowd!
We just have to wait and see!
DX 11 fail
who knows.. perhaps the new DX 11 cards will force DX10/10.1 cards to reduce price
what i should have said was
DX 11 extraneous hype fail.
i can tell you what i WILL be getting though.
but what use is that :p
CPU- 2yr
Vid- 1yr
Mem-2yr (Additions are allowed like 4GB to 8GB at anytime between then, this just means like DDR2 to DDR3 ect..)
Mainboard- Varies- mostly will stick with the CPU lifecycle