960 SP-laden RV870 in the Works, and more

[Megasty]

They also can up the number of transistors with the smaller process. That will definitely help the performance ratio. Too bad TSMC won't give us the transistor count.
They must have it really good, working with both companies & everything. One extra tid-bit & it creates a huge conflict of interest. But we'll take what we can get.

 

[hat]

alecstar was right, we are certianly in the muscle-car era of video cards. powerful, but suck up more and more killerwatts.

 

[PCpraiser100]

Keep this up and framerates will be so good on Crysis that my head will explode when I turn on my computer lol.

 

[zithe]

they where never even paying me for all the PR i did, but i suppose if you want a candle fanboy statement i can do it one more time

You can't seriously expect this card to do anything can you, its just a few extra SP's tacked onto the core and a 512bit bus (which all the ATI fanboys said was stupid) and i doubt this thing will touch even a GTX260 let alone the 280, its gonna be total crap.

there a fanboy statement

How uninformed...

4870 about ties with the gtx 260, and sometimes the 280. 1.2x the power of the 4870 would be a 280. XD

I doubt it'll be that slow. It's still 7+ months away. How often do you get CORRECT information on hardware 7 months in advance? Remember when we thought the 4870 had like 480SPs and it ended up having 800? That was just 4 months of waiting.

Edit: Accidental thread bump it seems...

 

[oli_ramsay]

they where never even paying me for all the PR i did, but i suppose if you want a candle fanboy statement i can do it one more time

You can't seriously expect this card to do anything can you, its just a few extra SP's tacked onto the core and a 512bit bus (which all the ATI fanboys said was stupid) and i doubt this thing will touch even a GTX260 let alone the 280, its gonna be total crap.

there a fanboy statement

How uninformed...

4870 about ties with the gtx 260, and sometimes the 280. 1.2x the power of the 4870 would be a 280. XD

I doubt it'll be that slow. It's still 7+ months away. How often do you get CORRECT information on hardware 7 months in advance? Remember when we thought the 4870 had like 480SPs and it ended up having 800? That was just 4 months of waiting.

Edit: Accidental thread bump it seems...

he was being sarcastic hence the

there's a fanboy statement

at the end

 

[candle_86]

thank you, someone read the whole post, but in all honesty, i doubt this new core will be worth the cost to upgrade for anyone with a 4850/70. It seems like its more to tie the GTX280 at a lower cost than the 4870 X2

 

[teldar]

dual core

I think there is something some people have missed. With split power planes with dual core GPU, you could have one core shut down, just as CPU's with dynamic power management. Imagine.... a nearly 2000 core gpu that can shut down half of itself and slow the half that is running down by 50%. Idle would be minimal while maximum power.... you'd be able to fold proteins on your desktop in less than a century.

 

[largon]

Old thread, but WTH...
If RV870 is anywhere near what the rumor in 1st post describes - including any type of Crossfired multicores - it would be a huge disappointment.
I want an old-style monolithic GPU sized 300-400mm².

 

[newtekie1]

Wouldn't it be nice if they launched the R800 first or along with the RV870s?

RV870 isn't a huge deal (as the R700 is probably way faster), but I absolutely can't wait for the R800.

-Indybird

So by your logic, R770 wasn't a huge deal either?