ATI R600 Specs Revealed

by **Apoptosis** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:32 am

According to recent news, originating in Canada, spread on a few hardware forums the new ATI R600 chip will be released around November/December 2006. The full specs include a stunning 64 shader pipelines, GDDR4 memory and will be built on 65 nm. The full specs leaked are as follows:

65nm
64 Shader pipelines (Vec4+Scalar)
32 TMU's
32 ROPs
128 Shader Operations per Cycle
800MHz+ Core
102.4 billion shader ops/sec
512GFLOPs for the shaders
2 Billion triangles/sec
25.6 Gpixels/Gtexels/sec
256-bit 512MB 2GHz+ GDDR4 Memory
57.6 GB/sec Bandwidth (at 1.8GHz)
WGF2.0 Unified Shader

Even if these are wrong they are impressive to look at! Japan's PC Watch has reported that the forthcoming G80 from nVidia may consume up to 175 watts and that the R600 seen above will use 200 watts of power per card! (source)

by **Bwall** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:57 am

Impressive specs no doubt. Not sure about the memory specs but I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

by **DMB2000uk** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:31 am

And now we wait for Nvidia's response....

Will be awesome to see the performance figures... not so much with the electric bills!

Dan

by **dicecca112** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:06 am

well looks like my last graphics card is the 7900 series unless they get those power stats down a lot

by **Dragon_Cooler** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:03 am

ATI R600...

dont you mean AMD R600? LOL

by **dicecca112** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:42 am

no seeing AMD decided to keep all the trademarks of ATI

by **Dragon_Cooler** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 9:39 pm

dicecca112 wrote:no seeing AMD decided to keep all the trademarks of ATI

ok....my bad

by **Cannyone** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:51 pm

Well as I see it, a huge part of the equation is "how much will the R600 cost?" If they price it at $600+ then it's very likely I won't have much choice. I can't afford that, let alone that AND a new power supply! :roll:

Truthfully, I'm not certain that DX10 will be "all that" from the start. In fact it sounds to me like Nvidia is betting it won't be such a huge success, because they are making a card that handles DX9 well, while having just marginal function for DX10. And my plan was to get the industry sort things out before I buy anything. To be specific, I'll wait until some company releases a game that I just have to play. Then I'll find out what runs it best, thereby allowing the rest of you eager beavers to be the beta testers... :drinkers:

by **anthony vargis** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:29 pm

dicecca112 wrote:well looks like my last graphics card is the 7900 series unless they get those power stats down a lot

......i beleive its goin to come with its own power supply....or just get aux psu

by **dicecca112** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:45 pm

its not power I'm worried about its the heat.

by **Cannyone** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 7:27 pm

dicecca112 wrote:its not power I'm worried about its the heat.

I think I'd liquid cool it... That way I don't worry about how noisy the fan is, or isn't, and I have to hear the radiator fans anyways.

ATI R600 Specs Revealed

ATI R600 Specs Revealed

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