R600 (ASIC): Difference between revisions

Template:Future product Radeon R600 is the codename for ATI Technologies' unannounced next generation Direct3D 10 graphics processing unit.

Rumors about Radeon R600

• ATI's R600 is expected to launch in early 2007.[1]
• The R600 is estimated to be the largest GPU ever made. Production based on an 80 nm process with ATI having 65 nm clearly in sights. [2]
• 64 unified shader pipelines, 32 TMUs, and 32 ROPs.
• Its design is similar to the Xbox 360's GPU "Xenos". However, the R600 will not have the 10 MB daughter-die embedded DRAM framebuffer of the "Xenos".
• The R600 will support the upcoming GDDR4 memory interface with 512 MB RAM running higher than the X1950XTX's memory clock speeds of 1.0 GHz (2.0 GHz effective).
• Designed "from the ground up," according to sources at ATI, for DX10, however it will be backwards compatible with DX9.
• Designed for Windows Vista.
• PCI-E Interface.
• HDMI connector (may have support for Displayport).
• Anandtech reports that the next generation of GPUs will range in power consumption from 130W to 300W. This increase in power consumption will make for higher-wattage Power Supply Units (to the 1 kW-1.2 kW range) and/or the addition of internal, secondary PSUs solely for powering the GPUs.[3]

See also

1. Comparison of ATI Graphics Processing Units
2. Graphics card
3. Graphics processing unit
4. NVIDIA
5. Comparison of NVIDIA Graphics Processing Units

External links

1. Inquirer article speculating about Radeon R600
2. ATI's official site