The RV770 in late June, a few details Posted on 21/05/2008 at 01:37 by Nicolas
AMD should soon launch the RV770 normally in the second half of June. It is now almost certain that it will have 96 vec5 units (or 480 stream processors) versus 64 for the Radeon HD 2900 and 3800.
At least three cards should be initially equipped with this GPU engraved in 55nm. Unsurprisingly, all will use the PCI-E 2.0 interface and support DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 2.1.
The Radeon HD 4850 will be equipped with GDDR3 and arrive first. The Radeon HD 4870 will then come right after and have higher frequencies and GDDR5 whose availability will still be reduced in June. Finally, the Radeon HD 4870 X2 will have two GPUs and should enable AMD’s graphic division to offer a very high end card.
With the GT200 that should arrive at the same time, summer ought to be interesting. We will also see if AMD’s wager, being the first to release a general public GPU (the RVxx obliges) and directly offering an X2 rather than a very high end GPU, will pay off...
AMD should soon launch the RV770 normally in the second half of June. It is now almost certain that it will have 96 vec5 units (or 480 stream processors) versus 64 for the Radeon HD 2900 and 3800.