Quote Originally Posted by [XC] hipno650 View Post
looks good until the 16Rops. that's going to hurt real gaming performance and AA performance big time. why increase shadders and mem amount and bandwidth and not improve the part that is hurting your current gen cards already?
With the ease that ATI can make these chips in high volumes with good yields, it is not too far off to assume that the R6xx architecture has the ability to go 640/32/32, but ATI may not need to bring that out until the R800s.

Also, the fact that the HD 4x00 series barely fits the 150W envelope (4870) tells us that the reason for the lack of an ROP increase may have been power draw, which also supports the theory that higher configurations are possible if ATI forgoes the 150W power envelope.

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