Tales from the Zone known as VR....

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 05:44:58 Fri, February 02, 2007

Deep from mysterious and forbidden VR Zone comes news of AMD's R600 launch.

"R600 will be launched in CeBIT but cards availability in April and we heard that the official name could be Radeon X2900."

When asked to comment on this news, a shadowy cloaked figure said the following:

"man...ATi is a bunch of $*#+ing morons, availability in April? G81 will be on store shelves by then, they're basically just handing market share to nvidia.."

11 Comments

Friday, February 02, 2007 7:58:30 PM

Logan11
guest

What's taking tthem so long?
Come on people. It takes two to pick a fight....

Friday, February 02, 2007 9:09:58 PM

Uh.. what?
R600 is X2900 and G81 will be out by the time it's released?
If only it was from th Inq, then we would know its false.

Saturday, February 03, 2007 7:29:36 PM

Steve
The Progenitor

The comment from the shadowy figure is not to be taken as truth. It is the comment of a guy who is familiar with the happenings of the GPU industry but is not an insider.

Saturday, February 03, 2007 9:07:07 PM

David
Senior Member

"It is the comment of a guy who is familiar with the happenings of the GPU industry but is not an insider' Similar to someone i know.

Sunday, February 04, 2007 6:34:56 AM

MrWizard6600
guest

ahahahahaha

shadowy cloaked men FTW.

Sunday, February 04, 2007 4:15:26 PM

anonymous
guest

G81 - What's that? You've got me curious!!

Monday, February 05, 2007 1:14:33 AM

Mike
GPUReview Founder

G81 is the presumed successor to G80. It's probably going to be called the 8900GTX and the guess is that it will have GDDR4, will be built on an 80nm process and will give R600 a run for its money. But we don't really know anything concrete.

Thursday, February 08, 2007 8:25:01 PM

David
Senior Member

Only thing i know about the g81 is the stream procs will be clocked at 1.5ghz and the core somewhere around 700-800mhz.

Thursday, February 08, 2007 10:57:20 PM

anonymous
guest

So when is the G81 supposed to be out? I'm probably going to be getting a new card, but if the G81 is coming out in the near future, I'll probably just wait for it

Friday, February 09, 2007 9:59:36 AM

anonymous
guest

When are they saying the G81 will be released?

Friday, February 09, 2007 9:52:00 PM

David
Senior Member

We dunno for sure but maybe between march and may.

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