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Weaksauce
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Hi

I was wondering if someone could show me a reliable source or describe what Ati's R600 , R250 etc etc actualy mean. My current assumption is that its like the codename for ATi's card technolgy. i know Nvidia use a similar system to name there cards? If someone could just clarfy this, it would be appricated.

Another issue i dont really understand is different fabrication processes such as 80/65nm and 120nm. If someone could again describe these to me. I always assumed larger was bigger but i dont think thats the case.

Any help would be appricated. thanks

these questions come from the fact that the R600 has been delayed until next year.
source- hothardware.com
http://www.hothardware.com/news.aspx#news2651
 
R600 etc is the actual name of the chip...

80nm is the chip die size... Smaller the die the more you can fit into the chip... Smaller is better...
 
R600 is to ATi, what G70, G71 and G73 is to nVIDIA. Not sure what model the R600 is in, but the G73 for example is the chip used for the 7600GS and 7600GT. The differences between the two cards are then the clockspeeds and the ram used (7600GS is DDR2 and 7600GT is DDR3).
 
HighTest said:
R600 is to ATi, what G70, G71 and G73 is to nVIDIA. Not sure what model the R600 is in, but the G73 for example is the chip used for the 7600GS and 7600GT. The differences between the two cards are then the clockspeeds and the ram used (7600GS is DDR2 and 7600GT is DDR3).
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No. R600 is the name for ATI's next-gen DirectX 10 GPU.

RV515 is X1300, RV530 is X1600, R520 is X1800 and R580 is X1900/X1950.
 
yup, Nanometer, thats....

1/1,000,000,000 (1E-9) O.O, those little peices of metal get pretty effin small.

heres a list of cores and core names:
R600 : ??? X2600?
R580+ : X1950 (core adapt to run GDDR4)
R580 : X1900
RV560 : ???
RV530 : X1600, X1300
R520 : X1800
R480 : X850
R420 : X800

and NV:
G73 : 7600
G72 : 7300
G71 : 7900
G70 : 7800
NV 44 : 6200 TC
NV 44A : 6200A
NV 43 : 6600, 6200
NV 42 : ??? (scraped?)
NV 41 : ??? (scraped?)
NV 40 : 6800
 
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