Codenamed "Lil Dragon"

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RV870 codenamed "Lil Dragon", 40nm

It's been known for some time that RV870 would be a shrink of RV770. The node following 65/55nm would be 45/40nm, but we weren't sure if AMD would go to 45nm or directly to half-node 40nm. It's now clear that AMD will go directly to 40nm and aim for a performance per watt ratio twice that of RV770. RV870 has been code-named "Lil Dragon", which does indicate that this will be something small, yet something to fear.

The overall performance has been suggested to be somewhere around 20% better than RV770 with a significant drop in power consumption. This points to 960 shaders (192x5), 48 texture units, 24 ROPs and so forth. If this is the case, TDP of the RV870 should be around 150W at most with today's frequencies. This is just an estimate on our part as technical specifications are still hard to come by. We also presume AMD to stay at DirectX 10.1 for now.
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AMD is coming up with some really cool codenames. First it was the Spartan for R700 , now Lil Dragon . Whats next ? Maybe 'The One', 'T-Rex' , 'Julius', 'Caesar' , 'Alexander' , 'Adolf'.

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They on a roll, trying to keep their golden Bullet rolling as far as they can, to make up losses from the past 3 years. Go AMD and ATi !
 
hah, beat me to it, figured I had it since I'm what less than an hour behind? --er 2 hrs apparently o_O

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7999.html

Non linear shrink of RV770 to 40nm, estimates put it at 960SPs although shrunk to 40nm I could easily see core clocks of 1GHz and thus total performance of just under 2TFLOPS, (2 flops per SP, [5 banks, 192 each] 960SPs, 1000Mhz = 1.96TFlops:D). Looks more like it should be called RV780 rather than 870, but still, it will be small, and it will spew fire in NVs general direction (razing their profit margines)

Initial rumors put the RV870 at 2000SPs, but I don't think it's hard for early rumors to get 2000SPs mixed up with 2000GFlops.

That said, the GT200 at 55nm could be dangerous. Lets not forget the GT200 is still the single most powerful die.

I'm betting we'll see both before x-mas 08. Good stuff. I love shrink races.

iPearl said:
They on a roll, trying to keep their golden Bullet rolling as far as they can, to make up losses from the past 3 years. Go AMD and ATi !
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eh, R580 was out months ahead of the G71, and it outperformed in the majority of the games I played. As far as I'm concerned, it was the superior card. Before the 8800GTX and GTS, there was an X1950XT 256mb going for less than $200 which I thought was fantastic. No comment on the G70 vs R520, seems the fanboys from both sides still have resentments over that one...
 
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