R600 Speculation At The Inquirer

Posted By: Michael Thomas - 07:27:35 Wed, November 15, 2006

Now that G80's launch has come and gone, it's time to start speculating about ATi's next architecture: R600. The Inquirer has some interesting rumors posted on their front page today. Personally, I'll be surprised if R600 launches with a 512bit memory interface.

http://www.theinq.com/default.aspx?article=35708

13 Comments

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 11:48:23 PM

xtreme_pc_computers
guest

OH GREAT!! I just bought these damned 8800 gtx's for SLI now I have to go out and sell them in January to get the R600! Just bought an x6800 a few weeks ago and it's already obsolete with this QX6700 quad core thing. I give up :/

Thursday, November 16, 2006 6:45:51 AM

My theory is that we will see this coming out in 3 months at 650$, while the 8800 GTX will cost 500$ at that point due to the release of the 8900 GTX (an 80nm 8800 GTX), wich would be released in order to compete with the X2800XT. So then that means that the X2900XT would be unbeatable. You start better, u finish better.

Thursday, November 16, 2006 11:23:21 AM

Mike
GPUReview Founder

I think that's a bit short sighted to say the least. From what I understand, nVidia's architecture and ATi's architecture are very very different this time around. We're going to need to see some real dx10 apps running before we can pass judgement.

Thursday, November 16, 2006 4:24:26 PM

David
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I agree with Mike, My new 8800gts is nice but dang i cant tell the difference really from my old gpu when i set everything on high, Some reason my friend has better luck with his it actually looks better on his pc then mine and I got 2gigs ram and a core 2 e6400 while hes got an e6300 with only a gig of ram. He got an lcd while i still have my crt could that be the reason?

Friday, November 17, 2006 5:37:22 AM

A CRT is like a Video Cassete, and an LCD is like a CD - not quite as good yet.

Friday, November 17, 2006 1:25:45 PM

David, do u have a Pentium 4 CPU?

Friday, November 17, 2006 3:34:51 PM

David
guest

No Core 2 duo e6400 and 2 gigs ocz ram.

Saturday, November 18, 2006 9:20:55 AM

anonymous
guest

I wonder how many TMU's and ROP's it will have?

Saturday, November 18, 2006 10:19:36 AM

anonymous
guest

David clearly said he has a Core 2 Duo E6400...

Monday, November 20, 2006 2:28:10 PM

Nick
guest

Will this new generation of ATi graphic cards support Fast Writes? Because according to the person who makes the ATi Omega Drivers says they don't and having it on causes a lot of game crashes. Which appears to be true on my X800. Same question goes for the X1950PRO AGP.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006 9:53:16 PM

@ David: Yeh, i know. I mean on another system. Can I talk to u on MSN Messenger? Im thinking of buying the 8800 GTS.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006 1:54:19 PM

David
guest

No i dont have any IM programs but I can tell you that it is worth buying but in a few months it wont be.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006 10:45:04 PM

David
guest

Track i just joined the forum so pm me.

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