Question about the upcoming Radeon card ?

Hello,

Does anyone know if the upcoming high-end card from Radeon will feature 1 gb per Gpu (so 2 gb in total). And when do you think it'll be out? Estimated price? And can you please give me the exact name of the card (with the code).

Also, anyone want to give a rough estimated number of how many frames it can pull off from Crysis @ 1920x1200 with absolutely everything tuned to the max, including AA x8

Thank you !

i'm sorry to tell you, but thats almost impossible to tellticktocktick201

And when do you think we'll get more info ? are we talking weeks or months here ? and how long

thanks.

RV770 is going to be a late May/June launch.
Current rumored specs for the HD4870 are-
55m
96 shaders (480SPs)
900-1050mhz core
16 ROPs
32 TMUs
256bit interface
1GB of GDDR5 @ 4400mhz (effective)
~140Gbps of bandwidth
~830m trannies
~250mm2 die size
Rumored MSRP is under $300

Supposedly compatiable with the HD3870 PCB but they are upgrading certain components, meaning that AMD/ATi really only has to work on making sure the yields from TSMC are good, since the PCBs are components will be plentiful.

The interesting thing about the speculation right now, is that sources in the West are talking about a SP upgrade TO 480SPs while sources in the East, Middle East/Asia, are hinting at a 480SP INCREASE meaning 800SPs. The former is more realistic, especially when noting the transistor budget they are working with, but it isn't necessarily impossible or out of the question.

Also other rumors state a GDDR3/4 launch in May, not going to happen IMO.
The more tasty rumors are that R700 is a MCM approach that can share the frame buffer, i.e. the memory.This means that they don't have to double the frame buffer, 512mb x2 will equal 1gb of memory or 1gb x2 will equal 2gb of memory. R700 is looking like a late June or early Q3 launch and it is something a lot of us are waiting for.

The other really tasty rumor is the power consumption, load power consumption is going to be hitting roughly the same TDPs that AMD cards are hitting now but the idle is going to be ridiculously low. Such as ~10w for HD4870 and ~25w for HD4870x2.

RV770 is going to be a late May/June launch.
Current rumored specs for the HD4870 are-
55m
96 shaders (480SPs)
900-1050mhz core
16 ROPs
32 TMUs
256bit interface
1GB of GDDR5 @ 4400mhz (effective)
~140Gbps of bandwidth
~830m trannies
~250mm2 die size
Rumored MSRP is under $300

Supposedly compatiable with the HD3870 PCB but they are upgrading certain components, meaning that AMD/ATi really only has to work on making sure the yields from TSMC are good, since the PCBs are components will be plentiful.

The interesting thing about the speculation right now, is that sources in the West are talking about a SP upgrade TO 480SPs while sources in the East, Middle East/Asia, are hinting at a 480SP INCREASE meaning 800SPs. The former is more realistic, especially when noting the transistor budget they are working with, but it isn't necessarily impossible or out of the question.

Also other rumors state a GDDR3/4 launch in May, not going to happen IMO.
The more tasty rumors are that R700 is a MCM approach that can share the frame buffer, i.e. the memory.This means that they don't have to double the frame buffer, 512mb x2 will equal 1gb of memory or 1gb x2 will equal 2gb of memory. R700 is looking like a late June or early Q3 launch and it is something a lot of us are waiting for.

The other really tasty rumor is the power consumption, load power consumption is going to be hitting roughly the same TDPs that AMD cards are hitting now but the idle is going to be ridiculously low. Such as ~10w for HD4870 and ~25w for HD4870x2.

LordEC911

My head is spinning :S

so in english, is it worth holding off buying the 9800 gx2 for this tasty rumored graphic card to come out ?

My head is spinning :S

so in english, is it worth holding off buying the 9800 gx2 for this tasty rumored graphic card to come out ?wiidominance

IMO, yes.

Right now AMD/ATi is working on getting these cards out the door>
Over on the Nvidia side, they are planning on shrinking the current G92 core to 55nm, aka G92b. We should be seeing these roughly the same time AMD gets their new cards out.
They are also working on the GT200, basically a 9800GX2 but on a single die so you don't have to deal with SLI. These are rumored to be a late Q3 launch but there are new rumors stating that it will be sooner than that, though I have a feeling they are not true.

Basically within the next 6 months we will have a completely new lineup of cards from both AMD and Nvidia.

[QUOTE="wiidominance"]My head is spinning :S

so in english, is it worth holding off buying the 9800 gx2 for this tasty rumored graphic card to come out ?LordEC911

IMO, yes.

Right now AMD/ATi is working on getting these cards out the door>
Over on the Nvidia side, they are planning on shrinking the current G92 core to 55nm, aka G92b. We should be seeing these roughly the same time AMD gets their new cards out.
They are also working on the GT200, basically a 9800GX2 but on a single die so you don't have to deal with SLI. These are rumored to be a late Q3 launch but there are new rumors stating that it will be sooner than that, though I have a feeling they are not true.

Basically within the next 6 months we will have a completely new lineup of cards from both AMD and Nvidia.

Will 2 months of wait be enough to know exactly what are the official specs ?

read this

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7356.html

Will 2 months of wait be enough to know exactly what are the official specs ?wiidominance

For the R700 and G92b, most likely, yes.
For GT200, that is unknown. If these early launch rumors are true, then probably. I still believe it will be a late Q3 launch but who knows, someone might drop a lot of info once the RV770 or R700 is out.

read this

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7356.html

sabbath2gamer

Lots of tera Flops ... no idea about performance though, but thanks for sharing anyway !