To the exhibition ceBIT, on which, according to the preliminary information, will take place the official announcement of the first DX 10 compatible ATI graphic processor , which has the code name r600, and video card on its base, remains only more than month. All information about future video cards AMD/ATI today has unofficial nature, in that number and its that new portion, which to us told the Singapore the service life R-Zone, which, let us recall, it was first in its time, who correctly named the specifications Of geForce 8800.
On the base Of r600 will be thus, released simultaneously three models of accelerators with the indices XTX, XT and XL, which are differed, probably, by operating frequencies. The volume of video memory GDDR4 will be 1 Gb, the system bus of access to it will be 512- bit, and the frequency of memory work of will comprise more than 2 GHz. The release of the first products is expected in the end of March, but not during April, as it was expected earlier.
The adapters will go by retail, whose length of printed-circuit board will be 24 cm, , 30- centimeter card will be reached to OEM- producers.
It communicates about the updated regime crossFire, which will give large addition in performance, than in accelerators of present generation.
Budget chip RV610 will be released in two variations. The first of them, RV610LE, which works at frequency 400 MHz, will be installed in video card together with memory DDR2. The second, RV610PRO, whose clock frequency will be 700 MHz, will function with memory DDR3.
Finally, mass RV630 will be used in video card, equipped WITH DDR2, DDR3 and DDR4, which will allow AMD/ATI to maximally diversify their model number.
The first models video card for base RV610 and RV630 will be prepared during March, and mass production is planned to fix during April, that somewhat earlier than it was expected.