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    ATI Releases More "R600" Details

    Quote Originally Posted by Dailytech.com
    320-stream processors, named ATI Radeon HD 2900

    AMD has named the rest of its upcoming ATI Radeon DirectX 10 product lineup. The new DirectX 10 product family received the ATI Radeon HD 2000-series moniker. For the new product generation, AMD has tagged HD to the product name to designate the entire lineup’s Avivo HD technology. AMD has also removed the X-prefix on its product models.

    At the top of the DirectX 10 chain, is the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT. The AMD ATI Radeon HD 2900-series features 320 stream processors, over twice as many as NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800 GTX. AMD couples the 320 stream processors with a 512-bit memory interface with eight channels. CrossFire support is now natively supported by the AMD ATI Radeon HD 2900-series; the external CrossFire dongle is a thing of the past.

    The R600-based ATI Radeon HD 2900-series products also support 128-bit HDR rendering. AMD has also upped the ante on anti-aliasing support. The ATI Radeon HD 2900-series supports up to 24x anti-aliasing. NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800-series only supports up to 16x anti-aliasing. AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 2900-series also possesses physics processing.

    New to the ATI Radeon HD 2900-series are integrated HDMI output capabilities with 5.1 surround sound. However, early images of AMD’s OEM R600 reveal dual dual-link DVI outputs, rendering the audio functions useless.

    AMD’s RV630-based products will carry the ATI Radeon HD 2600 moniker with Pro and XT models. The value-targeted RV610-based products will carry the ATI Radeon HD 2400 name with Pro and XT models as well.

    The entire AMD ATI Radeon HD 2000-family features the latest Avivo HD technology. AMD’s upgraded Avivo with a new Universal Video Decoder, also known as UVD, and the new Advanced Video Processor, or AVP. UVD previously made its debut in the OEM-exclusive RV550 GPU core. UVD provides hardware acceleration of H.264 and VC-1 high definition video formats used by Blu-ray and HD DVD. The AVP allows the GPU to apply hardware acceleration and video processing functions while keeping power consumption low.

    Expect AMD to launch the ATI Radeon HD 2000-family in the upcoming weeks, if AMD doesn’t push back the launch dates further.
    And the best part is, pricing is $100 - $150 less than the 8800 GTX

    Looks like NVIDIA's 8800 GTX is going to be dethroned

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    Po-tay-to, po-tah-to. It's all a matter of brand loyalty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zytek_Fan View Post
    And the best part is, pricing is $100 - $150 less than the 8800 GTX

    Looks like NVIDIA's 8800 GTX is going to be dethroned
    Considering the 8800 has been out for quite a while and nVidia can drop its price anytime, nope.

    Heard that DRM is gonna come with the R600's HD feature which will surely lose lots of customers.......
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    Quote Originally Posted by blackcat77 View Post
    Po-tay-to, po-tah-to. It's all a matter of brand loyalty.
    Exactly. Same with AMD and Intel. Its all brand loyalty. The brand who waits that extra bit longer will have the better chipset, and so on. Price reductions. etc etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NuclearCrap View Post
    Considering the 8800 has been out for quite a while and nVidia can drop its price anytime, nope.

    Heard that DRM is gonna come with the R600's HD feature which will surely lose lots of customers.......
    I don't know why anyone would need anything more powerful than an 8800 GTX to begin with...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zytek_Fan View Post
    I don't know why anyone would need anything more powerful than an 8800 GTX to begin with...
    Or more than 640K of memory :P
    "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."

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    640k?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alastor View Post
    Or more than 640K of memory :P
    Don't you mean 768MB? (The 8800 GTX has 768MB of VRAM. The 8800GTS has 640MB VRAM and 320MB VRAM)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alastor View Post
    Or more than 640K of memory :P
    Probably to display more than 256 colors
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zytek_Fan View Post
    Don't you mean 768MB? (The 8800 GTX has 768MB of VRAM. The 8800GTS has 640MB VRAM and 320MB VRAM)

    He's reffering to Bill Gates who said: 'You will never need more than 640kb of memory.' or something like that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pergarec View Post
    He's reffering to Bill Gates who said: 'You will never need more than 640kb of memory.' or something like that.
    Bill Gates was talking about RAM, not video memory. And that was when Windows 1.0 was introduced, so about 21 years ago.
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    Memory is memory, doesn't matter if it's system or video memory.

    And I DO know that was quite some time ago.

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    I don’t know how the quote original got associated with Gates, but he claims he never said it and I don’t think there is any record of him actually saying. It is pretty funny to think about it, because it makes fun of Gates for something he never said.

    Nevertheless, it seems to the ‘boilerplate’ response to hardware is fast enough comments.
    "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."

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