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AMD To Launch RV770 On June 18th

I love this waiting game, and its getting closer to launch day. -It feels like christmas and birthday rolled into one - Its a while since ATI/nVIDIA have brought out next gen cards out at nearly the same time. So lots of benchies and gameplay.

And the winner is ...........................
 
Lightnix said:
Shader power isn't everything, it seems nVidia is coming out with a much more balanced card (much more fillrate in everything), whereas AMD are going for lots of shader muscle and bandwidth. AMD's game plan could well be to sell more based on upcoming GPGPU applications, with far more raw shader power.

Edit: Just to clarify, what I'm saying is AMD aren't at all lying about how much shader power they have, it's just nowhere near as important as people are making it out to be. I think this is best illustrated with the 9600 GT, which has little over half the shader power the 8800 GT does, but isn't far behind it at all.
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Except that Nvidia's physics driver uses the shaders for physics. Not sure if they are going to let ATI have the driver details but if they do and more and more games come out with physics then you ATI might have an advantage with all that shader power.
 
I wouldn't take much notice of that, its utter rubbish. Hacking the power. Lol, Daft.

With PCI Express slot providing 75 watts of juice and the motherboard another 75 watts, there is a theoretical supply of up to 225 watts. That is quite a jump in the sub-$300 segment and it makes you wonder what the reasons may be, but we are certain that overclockers won't mind. One of key limitations for the extreme overclocking of the previous generation parts was the fact that the cards (3850, 3870, 8800GT, 8800GTS512) had only one power connector.

And the reason why ATI was so popular with overclockers was the fact that you could tell the motherboard to supply 150 watts, and ATI's 3870 would eat 150 watts from the motherboard (total: 75 watts + 150 watts = 225W). With two power connectors in place for the 4850 and 4870, overclockers do not need any hacks to get access to 225 watts. In fact, the 4870 will top out at 300 watts (150 watts from the motherboard, 75+75W from connectors). The 9800GT will be restricted to 225 watts (75 watts from the motherboard).
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I have an pci-e 2.0 board, i didnt know you had to tell the motherboard to supply 150w via the pci-e lanes. How do you do that?
 
Greebo said:
If true then only 480 shaders :(

And what is the point running crymark at 800 x 600 :confused:
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Yep the resolution is bizarre. The 480 shaders may simply be because w1zzard doesnt know the actual number of shaders. As you can see the fillrates are also very wrong.
 
Firstly: GPU-Z doesn't get the number of shaders by looking at the core itself, it just looks up data added by the developer (whom I assume isn't a staff member at ATi), their guess is as good as ours.

That and, yeah, the shot is clearly a joke, 52GHz memory? Yeah, I wouldn't hold your breath for that.

Also, there's no point in running anything at 800x600, if I remember correctly the 8800 GS beat out the 8800 GTX at that resolution in a lot of benchmarks, totally and completely useless resolution to test anything at.
 
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