Looks like they included upto 32pipelines (ON SOME MODELS)hkepc.com wrote:As the card maker doesn't wish to reveal the R520 performance yet, but we can confirm that R520 at 24pp or 32pp will not be lower than that of the GeForce 7800GTX. Even though the 32pp and 24pp R520 mass production will face some difficulties, but the 16 pipelines R520 using the 90nm core will be clocked high to maintain a certain level of competitiveness. Apart from employing TSMC to make the 90nm R520 cores, UMC will be making them as well in the near future to make up the shortage problem and we can see more of the 32pp and 24pp R520 versions.
Also a 512bit mem bus (twice as wide as any other!), although they only enabled support for 256bit for now
Ouch.... My wallet still hasn't recovered from OCZ and their powerstream
Better start saving now!
Without starting a, who's better thread.. I'd love to hear your views!
I suspect there will be hardly any 32pipline versions before christmas.. prob will come out as XP PE versions like the mystical agp version
What's interesting is that if they designed it with 32 pipelines... mayby they can be modded to enable extra pipelines.... We may see alot of dead cards at the beginning?
; I can smell warm semiconductor already!! oh wait, that's my POS compaq K6-2 500 I have right now, rofl; just kidding 
; now what could you do with a frequency of 1.6GHz on GDDR3?????hmm, what can you do??? oh yeah, just have some fricking sweet graphics that will make all the drool run outta your mouth!!!!!!!!