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Is anything imminent on the ATI front?
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Rumour , AMD Radeon HD 4900 coming in March
http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/605376/rumour-control-amd-radeon-hd-4900-coming-in-march.html
http://www.custompc.co.uk/news/605376/rumour-control-amd-radeon-hd-4900-coming-in-march.html
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lol, they claim someones already uncovered the specs and the links take you to a bunch of guessed specs and "unknown" specs for the higher end.
The lower end sounds plausible, bump in the SP's from 320-640. high end they don't know. The old rumours were much more speed, 200 extra sp's and few more TMU's which would only bump speed a little tbh, 25% extra sp's, 20% extra clocks.
But this isn't a counter to the 55nm Nvidia parts, this is a schedualed move to 40nm thats been known for some time. It taped out and they are waiting on TSCM to get 40nm into mass production which they delayed till end q1/early q2. Its kind of hard to imagine that Nvidia will be on time with their 40nm products, but its fully possible, they tend to have different teams working on several projects at the same time. But then their 55nm was schedualed for 4 months ago, their guys don't seem great with the whole shrinking things.
Nvidia's 40nm rumours seem, exagerated, a doubling of SP's sounds for them far to rar reaching due to the die space their sp's take up. even dropping to 256mbit bus and going gddr5 it sounds to much for a shrink considering recent problems. I can only see such a massive increase on only another half node drop to make their monolithic die even more uncompetitive price/production wise. Its likely to massively increase in size from a 55-45nm drop with a doubling of SP's. AMD the midrange is rumoured to be a 500mil to 700mil transistor bump and a "slight" increase in die size with 2/5 transistor increase. Can't see it being 480sp's myself unless they sacrifice a lot, can't see it in march either, May possibly, june more likely IMHO.
The lower end sounds plausible, bump in the SP's from 320-640. high end they don't know. The old rumours were much more speed, 200 extra sp's and few more TMU's which would only bump speed a little tbh, 25% extra sp's, 20% extra clocks.
But this isn't a counter to the 55nm Nvidia parts, this is a schedualed move to 40nm thats been known for some time. It taped out and they are waiting on TSCM to get 40nm into mass production which they delayed till end q1/early q2. Its kind of hard to imagine that Nvidia will be on time with their 40nm products, but its fully possible, they tend to have different teams working on several projects at the same time. But then their 55nm was schedualed for 4 months ago, their guys don't seem great with the whole shrinking things.
Nvidia's 40nm rumours seem, exagerated, a doubling of SP's sounds for them far to rar reaching due to the die space their sp's take up. even dropping to 256mbit bus and going gddr5 it sounds to much for a shrink considering recent problems. I can only see such a massive increase on only another half node drop to make their monolithic die even more uncompetitive price/production wise. Its likely to massively increase in size from a 55-45nm drop with a doubling of SP's. AMD the midrange is rumoured to be a 500mil to 700mil transistor bump and a "slight" increase in die size with 2/5 transistor increase. Can't see it being 480sp's myself unless they sacrifice a lot, can't see it in march either, May possibly, june more likely IMHO.
Well, it's 55nm -> 40nm, last I heard AMD and Nvidia gave up on TSMC's 45nm front since they put it online around the same time as the 40nm process so opted for 40nm instead. I'm certainly hoping RV740, apparently the first 40nm product AMD is bringing to market, will be the 640 shader/128-bit bus/GDDR5 setup.
That said, every piece of information since 2008 going up to some more recent articles posted by VR-Zone, Fudzilla and such has been pointing to an early Q2 release (i.e. about Aprilish) for both AMD's and Nvidia's parts.
That said, every piece of information since 2008 going up to some more recent articles posted by VR-Zone, Fudzilla and such has been pointing to an early Q2 release (i.e. about Aprilish) for both AMD's and Nvidia's parts.
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Personally i think it would be good if they just stopped and took a breather as some people weather they need it or not make them selves broke over constantly upgrading, stupid i know but it happens a lot.
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its like a gambling habbit. extreme hobbies are great but i just spent £2k on my system, in 6 months it will be worth half that at least, you get less depreciation on a car.
will i be upgrading? in a couple of years maybe. although the prospect of a new card always gets me excited even though i cant afford it
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In your case, ConnectionFX, you only need to add another 4870X2 when the prices come down a fair bit. That's if you want lots of AA of course, with your 22" displays.