R600 Delayed For Re-spin That Adds Samsung GDDR4 Memory?
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R600 Delayed For Re-spin That Adds Samsung GDDR4 Memory?
R600 Delayed For Re-spin That Adds Samsung GDDR4 Memory?
I'm not sure if you guys saw the main page today, but Samsung announced they have 4Gbps GDDR4 memory now. Now that this memory has come to light, could ATI be re-working the card to have it? These new GDDR4 IC's are clocked at 2GHz and are built on the 80nm process. Since the reference ATI cards had ~2.2Gbps Samsung GDDR4 (anyone know the actual?) it would be interesting to see what happens.
Who knows just a thought... Share your thoughts if you have any.
I'm not sure if you guys saw the main page today, but Samsung announced they have 4Gbps GDDR4 memory now. Now that this memory has come to light, could ATI be re-working the card to have it? These new GDDR4 IC's are clocked at 2GHz and are built on the 80nm process. Since the reference ATI cards had ~2.2Gbps Samsung GDDR4 (anyone know the actual?) it would be interesting to see what happens.
Who knows just a thought... Share your thoughts if you have any.
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well if thats true then it really shows that the R600 GPU alone cant stack up to the 8800. All ive heard since 8800 was released was that AMD is trying to get the clock as high as possible and now this with the GDDR4? Its strange considering on paper the R600 specs we are told seem to be better then the 8800 but if thats true then what's taking so long!
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I honestly have no clue... All ATI is saying on the phone is that it was held for strategic purposes. I just thought this new GDDR4 breakthrough a couple days later was interesting. When I asked ATI if a re-spin was being done they couldn't comment... They did say that the card would be public May/June, which is about how long it would take for a re-spin...HONkUS wrote:and now this with the GDDR4?
Sadly, it sounds like a delay excuse more than anything. Better architecture usually beats out brute clock speeds but I guess we'll see.
nVidia won't be swapping to GDDR4 anytime soon since they'll have to redesign the power circuity among other things. Perhaps in the another card but we probably won't see GDDR4 on any of the current cards 8800GTX, GTS-640, and GTS-320.
nVidia won't be swapping to GDDR4 anytime soon since they'll have to redesign the power circuity among other things. Perhaps in the another card but we probably won't see GDDR4 on any of the current cards 8800GTX, GTS-640, and GTS-320.
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So the delay is proven fact, no speculation here?? May/June is going to hurt them as people are going to be eyeballing that nice, shiny new 8900GTX card in the meantime if nVidia decides to not hold it.
Next thing we'll hear, AMD will be delaying it again so they can create a 65nm silicon spin... If they delay the launch to long it's going to really create problems if it doesn't totally own the 8900GTX card... some not as well read people are already of the mind that ATI is "behind" simply because of nVidia's early launch last year.
Next thing we'll hear, AMD will be delaying it again so they can create a 65nm silicon spin... If they delay the launch to long it's going to really create problems if it doesn't totally own the 8900GTX card... some not as well read people are already of the mind that ATI is "behind" simply because of nVidia's early launch last year.
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