http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4327&Itemid=34
It looks like ATI wants to go multi core and this time it can put more smaller cores on a single chip. You can expect that the high-end R700 might end up with more than four smaller cores that will shape up this card.
This is why R680, Radeon 3870 X2 is extremely important for ATI’s future, as it looks like that the future is really multicore. We still don’t know if G100 uses the same approach, but we would not be surprised.
R700XT, the high-end version of the chip will use four or more smaller cores to reach the performance crown and, in this case, you need an excellent Crossfire, multichip driver.
R680 is actually a warm-up product, as ATI will test the Crossfire X with two, three and four cores, and this will give them predictions about the future. R700 is still scheduled for middle of 2008.
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4346&Itemid=1
R700 looks like an interesting chip as it will change a lot of things. Nvidia currently talk about clusters but most of these chips are blocks of functional units divided in these so called clusters.
ATI will do a step forward and will introduce its mini core that will be one small part of a larger chip. ATI can use just one R700 core to get an entry level chip, two cores will make a mainstream card and four R700 cores should take care of the high end.
A single R700 core has just below 300 million transistors and you can do the math that even four R700 cores means over a billion transistors and a lot of graphics processing power.
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4348&Itemid=1
Nvidia just went for 65 nanometre, ATI is at 55 nanometre and it looks like the R700 might be the world’s first 45 nanometre graphics chip.
A 45 nanometre chip is at least 30 percent smaller than 55nm and its more than 50 percent smaller than 65 nanometre chip and at the same time this means that it will be way cooler than any 65 or 55 nanometre chip.
This also means lower heat dissipation and higher clock speeds, but we still don’t know G100 can be the same deal and it can be made of many smaller cores as well. This is how it is possible to put just a bit less than 300 million transistors on a 72 sq mm die.
Well there will be not doubt that nvidia will do something similar billion transistors sounds good and if everything will be fine there will be some good power in the cards hopefully they they will not mess it up as r600 and if theres no delays middle of 2008 sounds good
It looks like ATI wants to go multi core and this time it can put more smaller cores on a single chip. You can expect that the high-end R700 might end up with more than four smaller cores that will shape up this card.
This is why R680, Radeon 3870 X2 is extremely important for ATI’s future, as it looks like that the future is really multicore. We still don’t know if G100 uses the same approach, but we would not be surprised.
R700XT, the high-end version of the chip will use four or more smaller cores to reach the performance crown and, in this case, you need an excellent Crossfire, multichip driver.
R680 is actually a warm-up product, as ATI will test the Crossfire X with two, three and four cores, and this will give them predictions about the future. R700 is still scheduled for middle of 2008.
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4346&Itemid=1
R700 looks like an interesting chip as it will change a lot of things. Nvidia currently talk about clusters but most of these chips are blocks of functional units divided in these so called clusters.
ATI will do a step forward and will introduce its mini core that will be one small part of a larger chip. ATI can use just one R700 core to get an entry level chip, two cores will make a mainstream card and four R700 cores should take care of the high end.
A single R700 core has just below 300 million transistors and you can do the math that even four R700 cores means over a billion transistors and a lot of graphics processing power.
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4348&Itemid=1
Nvidia just went for 65 nanometre, ATI is at 55 nanometre and it looks like the R700 might be the world’s first 45 nanometre graphics chip.
A 45 nanometre chip is at least 30 percent smaller than 55nm and its more than 50 percent smaller than 65 nanometre chip and at the same time this means that it will be way cooler than any 65 or 55 nanometre chip.
This also means lower heat dissipation and higher clock speeds, but we still don’t know G100 can be the same deal and it can be made of many smaller cores as well. This is how it is possible to put just a bit less than 300 million transistors on a 72 sq mm die.
Well there will be not doubt that nvidia will do something similar billion transistors sounds good and if everything will be fine there will be some good power in the cards hopefully they they will not mess it up as r600 and if theres no delays middle of 2008 sounds good
