R600 die-reduction

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When is the die-reduction of the X2900s to 65nm expected to come out? I remember a few months ago some sites put it as expected in September, and theinq among others were speculating that they'll be the most overclockable graphics chips since the 9700Pros, but AMD stuff has had a habit of missing their release dates recently... Anyone read anything on the news about it recently?

 

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So now they've got you did they?

 

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the only possibly big problem is. ok ati may have jumped the gun on the software AA, a lot of the big wigs in the gaming industry are saying IQ accurate, high IQ AA properly done with HDR now being used massively really WILL require software AA. so nvidia might be going 1teraflop with the next card, but if the game designers are asking them for software AA aswell, how much of the extra power might be used instead of hardware AA?

That's not the only thing, they also (apparently) spent a lot of effort implementing pageable VRAM as well, and that feature ended up being cut from DX10. They're a forward-looking company, and as usually happens they end up shooting themselves in the foot by spending time and money researching features the market isn't ready for, while their competitors are simply refining their current tricks, ekeing ahead on performance, publicising their success better and eating up market share. Same thing with Intel sticking 2 dual-core chips on a single die and stealing AMD's thunder while they were busy researching a natively-quad core chip.