Some unconfirmed HD 2950 Pro and HD 2950 XT news.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 09:03:51 Fri, September 21, 2007

I just posted the HD 2900 Pro news yesterday and now today techPowerUp! is telling us some delicious information about AMD's new RV670 line up. This new chip will power the new HD 2950 XT and HD 2950 Pro.

The HD 2950 XT will run at 825MHz/2.4GHz with 512MB of GDDR4 RAM. That is an 85MHz increase on the core and a 375MHz increase on the memory. That is pretty significant. There is no way you are gonna be able to clock a GDDR4 HD 2900 XT that high without some extreme cooling.

The HD 2950 Pro will run at 750MHz/1.8GHz with either 512 or 256MB of GDDR3 RAM. That is a 150MHz increase on the core and a 100MHz increase on the memory. I think that is just a big enough increase to be beyond the reach of an overclocked HD 2900 Pro.

What makes these impressive jumps in clock speeds possible is that the RV670 is made with a new 55nm process. Both of these new cards will feature PCI-E 2.0, UVD and a magical next generation CrossFire technology.

This news is "unconfirmed" due to this sentence:

The information HARDSPELL is reporting is not confirmed by any official source close to AMD or ATI, keep it in mind while reading.

18 Comments

Friday, September 21, 2007 11:30:34 AM

anonymousD
n00b

55nm is teh salvation of ati :)

Friday, September 21, 2007 2:59:49 PM

anonymous
guest

55nm = success

Saturday, September 22, 2007 1:07:10 AM

anonymous
guest

THEY SHOULD HAVE USED 45NM

Saturday, September 22, 2007 1:09:12 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

If the broken Multi Sampling hardware units are fixed , then they'll beat anything in terms of AA performance . If not , then it'll be good , but not that good under AA .
2.4 ghz = 153.6 GB/sec bandwidth .
Another world record broken .

Saturday, September 22, 2007 11:02:56 PM

anonymous
guest

Does AA help at higher resolutions in terms of quality? For example if I run a game at 1920x1200 (my monitor's native resolution) but put leave AA at 0x, then shouldn't that look damn good anyways?

Sunday, September 23, 2007 10:17:02 PM

anonymous
guest

This is why I didn't buy 8800GTX. I've been an ATi fan since Rage pro, and I knew they would pull through. 24 Ghz? 55nm? Wow. They might not regain market loss, but they will regain the throne of most powerful cards.

Monday, September 24, 2007 11:51:47 AM

anonymous
guest

ATI>GOD

Monday, September 24, 2007 12:04:26 PM

Steve
The Progenitor

@anonymous Well if that is true then AMD has more money than ATI AND God since they bought ATI. So.. AMD>ATI>GOD

Monday, September 24, 2007 12:29:52 PM

zZz
guest

aaand, to take that a little further, you could say that CONSUMERS control AMD, that means:
Evil Incarnate > AMD > ATI > GOD

Monday, September 24, 2007 12:53:59 PM

Steve
The Progenitor

@zZz lol I approved that comment without reading the whole thing. It turned out to be much better than I thought!

Monday, September 24, 2007 6:59:36 PM

some so-called moderator
guest

please keep g-d out of the discussion

Monday, September 24, 2007 7:59:05 PM

anonymousD
n00b

kids..:p

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:39:26 AM

Steve
The Progenitor

@some so-called moderator You named yourself "moderator" and I have no clue who you are, so I renamed you. Even if you are trying to masquerade as a moderator... your comment was still valid.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:45:08 AM

2000ghz brain
guest

I wouldn't be blowing smoke up Ati's botty until these unit's are tried and tested.

Does anyone care to cast their minds back 2 - 3 months?....

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:29:15 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

The initial release was terrible ... because of the drivers . If these cards ever do come out , you'll have to wait for a few driver releases , to see how they really perform .

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 4:08:35 PM

some so-called moderator
guest

sorry. wasn't trying to fool anyone.

Thursday, September 27, 2007 10:45:11 AM

2000Ghz Brainzz
guest

@ Radiator

By which time a better card which works out of the box will probably be available!

Sunday, October 14, 2007 12:35:36 PM

Gazer
guest

its uncorfirmed news ! like that article in 3dLabs that said that the G90 will be 3 times more powerful than the G80(Ultra) with the half of power consumption @65nm.

i still can't believe why people just get happy with UNCONFIRMED news.

if i would be happy, it would be for nVidia, because 3 times better FOR ME looks a LOT more interesting than 350mhz more clock of memory... yes, it does sound a LOT better, but... this rumor and the other one about the G90 might be wrong, so ?

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