ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series discussion

[azza21]

Keep the gossip bandwagon going!
Fud is claiming that "AMD plans to show off its RV770XT and PRO cards at Computex, but it won't launch it until late June" Apparently AMD plans to launch the XT/Pro cards in the last week of June and also that real availability will be in Q3 (July), 3 weeks after Computex.

Hopefully the launch will be infact June because it seems to me as if its slowly getting later and later. Then again that could be down to us speculating about the launch. Has AMD actually officially ever said that ANY R700 cards where due to come out in may/june...or was we speculating and then started to believe our own hype, which is easily done

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Another bit of gossip is that " RV770PRO with GDDR3 has been sampled a few weeks ago and AMD is about to sample RV770XT cards with GDDR5 memory.
As we said before RV770XT will end up as the faster from two and it has the 512bit memory support. Naturally, RV770XT is bigger and hotter than its predecessor, the RV670XT, but at the same time, it will end up significantly faster.
It will have a bigger cooler and of course it supports DirectX 10.1 and its developed in 55nm. Remember this is a mainstream/performance product and it won’t be that expensive."

RV770 GDDR5 to sample soon

And finaly
"It looks like the GT200 or D10U card will sell for US$499 and it will be the perfect replacement for the Geforce 9800GTX. We are not sure about the name. Many people have suggested Geforce 9900GTX and GT brands, but we are not sure if these will really be the final names.
The cards based on the GT200 will sell for $499 and the cards are sampled and work well. Nvidia plans to show the cards to journalists in the last week of May and it’s highly likely to see the launch in June, with retail availability.
It will be fun to see if the GT200 will end up faster than the GX2 and if this single big chip can actually beat a dual chip card. We have a feeling it should."