AMD to shrink the chips & increase the clocks of its midrange cards.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 10:30:29 Mon, September 10, 2007

Early next year AMD will reportedly have improved verisons of the the HD 2400 and HD 2600 on store shelves. Both series will be shrunk from a 65nm process to a 55nm process and their core clock speeds will be increased to 800MHz. The RV635 and RV620 based cards will feature the new Display Port connection and are rumored to be launched as the Radeon HD 2650 and 2500, respectively. Thanks be to DigiTimes (again) for the good news.

5 Comments

Monday, September 10, 2007 2:43:35 PM

OMG, a 5 year-old could run this company better than AMD!
Make an HD 2950XT2! It's the only thing that can save you. How hard is that to understand?

Monday, September 10, 2007 5:07:46 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

They should have developed a new core instead , with more ROPs and TMUs , then they wouldn't need all that extra core clock . But oh well , cheers for AMD .

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 12:01:07 AM

anonymousD
n00b

good. lower power and heat emissions :thumb:

edit lets see the same with the 2900 :rolleyes: :D

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 5:57:10 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

The HD 2600's and 2400's already draw an insignificant amount of power , what's the point in shrinking it some more ?
And increasing the core clock by a little wont give a lot of extra performance either , seeing that the cards lack TMUs and ROPs .

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 9:13:17 PM

RobotDevil
guest

I'm not even sure the shrink will result in any power savings. As is with current transistor technology when you go below 65nm you begin to lose as much power as you use. A finer grained core with on the fly power savings would have been more beneficial (think Core 2 innovation). Until Intel releases thier 45nm transistor technology shrinks below 65nm are only going to benefit theoretical numbers.

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