R700 when?

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If ATI is coming out with the NEW R700 (I hope they get something to make nvidia do something) then why are they announcing now that they will release a 3850X2 in May ?
doesn't say much for R700 in may or june to me.
 
If anyone is expecting the next gen stuff before 4th quarter they are a bit on the nutty side.
 
my favorite answer is
"it will be ready when its ready"

speculation until then.

next week nvidia is supposed to release a new killer card...
look at the falling prices of all the 88xx

what i just said is speculation also.
 
My personal speculation is AMD won't release anything new for a while. If they do I am not even sure if they are even shooting for high end enthusiast. I am guessing they are going to try and capture the mainstream market.
 
If you step back for a minute, PC gaming hardware has never been as cheap and powerful as it now. You can build a very capable gaming machine for around $1000. $250 dolar GPU's are chewing through most current games at high settings and resolutions.

While there's not been anything really breathtaking on the market since the introduction of the 8800 GTX, there just hasn't been the need. Indeed, the 8800 GTX at 18 months is still a very capable card. That's a long time for a GPU to remain robust.

The need for more power just isn't really there yet. Beisdes, between the fall and the Q1, were going to see Nehalem and GT200 and R700, so there's plenty so be saving up for.
 
There are quite a few rumors stating that r700 will be ready in may/june, but there is no concrete evidence and I dont know if amd has it in them.
 
What is the HD3850? A downclocked HD3870 running on half the ram. You can bet the HD3850X2 will be a downclocked HD3870X2 running on half the ram. Seems to me the HD3850X2 is really just a product of the board partners asking for an SKU to fill the gap between the HD3870X2 and HD3870.

I'm still wagering a late may arrival.

But, anywho, we will have more definitive rumors by then at least.
 
Hector better sacrifice a goat to hold off another "perfect storm." :p
 
I wouldn't expect ATi to be too slow on launching its new series this time around, especially after what they learned from the market share losses they incured by giving the 8800 series such a huge buffer zone to work with in the area of time. I hope for the R770 to launch in the early/mid summer, anything else would seem a poor choice.
 
NKDietrich said:
If anyone is expecting the next gen stuff before 4th quarter they are a bit on the nutty side.
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I expect an paperlaunch in the logical point in June and Computex since the card aint that mutch faster than current 3870X2, just 50% the battle i hopped for aint gonna happens and GT200 will be set even furter and another G92 product will se the light, G92b.
 
MrWizard6600 said:
useless much?

I guess I'll bite...

Why? Whats wrong with this rumor?
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Well, I had thought it died off last month, but apparently not. The info loooks real sketchy.
First part of it is, "480 stream processors" 4D+1D. Then it says 1D = 96 SPs, so 4D = 384/4 = 96. I don't have any idea what 1D means, like a separate set of pixel pipelines of somekind.

Second, The rumor claims "1gb DDR5, 512bit memory bus" and the same price points as the current lineup. Bullshit. Their not going to put 16 extremely high end, still untested, most likely very expensive GDDR5 onto a board, and sell it for 220-250 for regular, and 400ish for X2. The memory alone is going to cost around 100 dollars to put on that board (their end)

The numbers really don't add up.
 
I really hope it it performs better than the 3870X2 because that thing benches great but it performs lousy in games very slow I heard the new cards will be GDDR5 no less that sounds intense...
 
Simpson5774 said:
Well, I had thought it died off last month, but apparently not. The info loooks real sketchy.
First part of it is, "480 stream processors" 4D+1D. Then it says 1D = 96 SPs, so 4D = 384/4 = 96. I don't have any idea what 1D means, like a separate set of pixel pipelines of somekind.

Second, The rumor claims "1gb DDR5, 512bit memory bus" and the same price points as the current lineup. Bullshit. Their not going to put 16 extremely high end, still untested, most likely very expensive GDDR5 onto a board, and sell it for 220-250 for regular, and 400ish for X2. The memory alone is going to cost around 100 dollars to put on that board (their end)

The numbers really don't add up.
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Have all the specs been confirmed by official sources yet? I still read a fair amount of speculatory musings, but nothing concrete about every detail in the architecture.

As far as the release date is concerned, there doesn't seem to be many rumors circulating about a possible lengthy delay. Not stating that it can't happen, but so far a summer release appears to be right on schedule. If there is a delay I don't expect it to be beyond August. Whether it's the beginning of summer or the end of summer I doubt it would make much difference to most folks anyway.
 
Jimmmy said:
I really hope it it performs better than the 3870X2 because that thing benches great but it performs lousy in games very slow I heard the new cards will be GDDR5 no less that sounds intense...
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samsung just released the stuff, They've showcased it hitting 6GHz.

that makes me one very happy panda.

I'm going to drop maybe $600 on an RV770 or R700 setup when their released.

edit: the Dual GPU board looks like its going to hit $499 MSRP. Also, the single card solution has a 256bit bus *allegidly* running at 4.4GHz, which makes for a total of 130GB/s

= very happy panda.
 
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