AMD/ATI's R600 Video Card!

[mr. nails]

ati's answer to the ill fated gforce 8 is just around the corner and is to be released around jan 22nd '07. should retail for about $640US and the link i've provided will show u that it's currently beating the 8800gtx in all benches (real time game benches) 'cept that of bf2. which is said i and believe a compatibility issue with said card or drivers. that said all benches have yet to even run the r600 card with optimized drivers. so, when those cum out the r600 will just be the top dawg of gpu's once again!

* 64 4-Way SIMD Unified Shaders, 128 Shader Operations/Cycle
* 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs
* 512 bit Memory Controller, full 32 bit per chip connection
* GDDR3 at 900 MHz clock speed (January)
* GDDR4 at 1.1 GHz clock speed (March, revised edition)
* Total bandwidth 115 GB/s on GDDR3
* Total bandwidth 140 GB/s on GDDR4
* Consumer memory support 1024 MB
* DX10 full compatibility with draft DX10.1 vendor-specific cap removal (unified programming)
* 32FP [sic] internal processing
* Hardware support for GPU clustering (not limited to Dual or Quad-GPU)
* Hardware DVI-HDCP support (High Definition Copy Protocol)
* Hardware Quad-DVI output support (Limited to workstation editions)
* 230W TDP PCI-SIG compliant

R600 Benches (http://level505.com/2006/12/30/the-full-ati-r600-test/1)

[Seedler]

Will pwn the G80 from Nvidia.

But Nvidia beat ATI to the market, once again.

[SweeT EviL]

Theres going to be also G84 and G86 to the mid-range market.
Its spus to release close to the date of the R600 release.

[silent h3ro]

Whatever happened to the RD600 mobo? I never thought I would end up getting an nforce board when I bought my computer.

[mr. nails]

Whatever happened to the RD600 mobo? I never thought I would end up getting an nforce board when I bought my computer.

tell me about it. i was so looking forward to this board. it had such good potential, but i believe it was dropped. no official word on that, but it was supposed to be released 2 months ago and by only 1 manufacturer.. DFI. meh, the 680i/a series is looking nice, but just not what they have as of now. i will prob get an 680i board. lol, i need a new build and have been saying this for 6 months or so now, but every week it seems something new is coming out. 1.5 years ago the pc market was pretty steady and nothing new whatsoever. now, to much shit is cummin'. crazy. as of now it's 680i mb and i'm waiting on 2nd gen dx10 cards. 1st gen sux ballz. they perform good, but buggy and a rushed product. lol, i'll wait.

[mr. nails]

ati r600 gpu is looking really nice and we will see them hit the market cum this jan 22nd! 1st post has updated info and benches showing comparison between the r600>x1950xtx crossfire>8800gtx! it's a good read.

[silent h3ro]

ati r600 gpu is looking really nice and we will see them hit the market cum this jan 22nd! 1st post has updated info and benches showing comparison between the r600>x1950xtx crossfire>8800gtx! it's a good read.I would like to see the benchmarks but the link is dead. :mellow:

[mr. nails]

sorry 'bout that. new site new ppl and their shit just went down. it's a really good read and very informative. hopefully their shit will cum back up some time soon.

Hotlink from Dailytech (http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5524) <-- broken here as well, but u can get some sort of closure 'til level505's site opens back up.

[mr. nails]

it's back up, but here's (http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=36671) some news. meh, they got meh. i was excited. idk.