AMD Radeon RV840 Graphics Card Caught on Camera

[btarunr]

Yesterday, AMD unveiled its surprise for this year's Computex, with a demonstration of a DirectX 11 3D scene. Behind the scenes though, was what AMD claimed to be the "world's first true DirectX 11 graphics processor". The hardware itself however, wasn't publicly displayed, although a memento of AMD's partnership with TSMC, a wafer of 40 nm DirectX 11 GPUs, was made public. VR-Zone however, sneaked into the backdrops and pictured the machine that ran the demo (which ironically, was built into a case with a side-window).

The graphics card, a portion of which, is hidden behind the "wing" of the AMD Dragon logo graphic, is seen to be about 8.5 inches long, spans across two slots, and has a seemingly sporty cooler with the ATI-red shroud. It draws power from a single 6-pin PCI-E connector. The photographers note that this could be the RV840-based desktop accelerator, which forms the performance-mainstream product for the company's upcoming DirectX 11-compliant GPU lineup codenamed "Evergreen". The first product from this series is expected to be released in September, weeks ahead of the launch of Microsoft Windows 7.



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[Assassin48]

just uses a single 6 pin?
hmmm interesting

 

[ShadowFold]

just uses a single 6 pin?
hmmm interesting

Remember tho, RV840 is similar to the RV740 in performance/price range compared to the RV870/RV800(sorry if I worded that weird, I just woke up).. Looks very awesome, I just wanna see RV870 already!

 

[Assassin48]

so the 870 will compete with the 4870x2?

 

[ShadowFold]

so the 870 will compete with the 4870x2?

RV840 = 5770(RV740 is 4770)
RV870 = 5800
RV800 = 5800X2

So yea, but I'm just basing these off of the naming scheme they've used for the HD 3000 and HD 4000 so I might be wrong.

 

[iStink]

(which ironically, was built into a case with a side-window).

lol here let me fix

(which moronically, was built into a case with a side-window).

 

[BOSE]

Go back and steal it!

 

[lemonadesoda]

Photographer spent more time getting his reflection and fingers into the shot, rather than just bending the knees to get a better shot of the GPU.

Wouldnt a polarizing filter help cut out those reflections a little?

 

[Geofrancis]

Go back and steal it!

good luck with drivers

 

[BOSE]

Photographer spent more time getting his reflection and fingers into the shot, rather than just bending the knees to get a better shot of the GPU.

Wouldnt a polarizing filter help cut out those reflections a little?

or taking 3 steps to the left.

 

[mdm-adph]

lol here let me fix

which moronically, was built into a case with a side-window.

Nope -- you forgot the first rule of publicity: there's no such thing as "bad" publicity.

It should be:

which conveniently, was built into a case with a side-window.

 

[OnBoard]

Photographer spent more time getting his reflection and fingers into the shot, rather than just bending the knees to get a better shot of the GPU.

Wouldnt a polarizing filter help cut out those reflections a little?

That's what you get shooting a reflection with auto focus. Manual focus would have solved that, but they probably didn't have time if they were sneaking around

 

[ShogoXT]

I cant see much.

 

[freaksavior]

i cant see crap in that picture

 

[Noxman]

i cant see crap in that picture

Me neither, but i can see other things.

 

[MilkyWay]

is that a 3 slot cooler? i cant see shit even if we could it would just look like every other ati card red with the crap stock cooler

 

[D4S4]

looks 3 slot to me too

 

[Kitkat]

i cant see crap in that picture

lol yeah. Whats tech without blury camera shots to get u started.

 

[scope54]

looks like the cheaper cooler from the HD 4770

 

[leventp]

Photographer spent more time getting his reflection and fingers into the shot, rather than just bending the knees to get a better shot of the GPU.

Wouldnt a polarizing filter help cut out those reflections a little?

What were you expecting? It is probably a quick spy shot, possibly with the camera (or cell phone) concealed.

 

[Hayder_Master]

it is 4770 with DX11 support

 

[PCpraiser100]

OMG! Thanks to the cameraman who went through security!

 

[TAViX]

it is 4770 with DX11 support

Exactly my thoughts...

 

[Geofrancis]

does direct x 11 have physics built into it?

 

[ShadowFold]

does direct x 11 have physics built into it?

Iirc it's GPGPU, so probably.