RV870 single-core, R870 dual-core, R800 quad-core?

[Calmatory]

bah ATI can't get their drivers right.

Flamebait.

[NapalmV5]

^ lol not chips.. cores

[bowman]

Maybe if they ditch the PLX bridge chips and put a Hydra on there instead.. Outside of that it'll be utterly useless.

[STaRGaZeR]

and opengl drivers

Does that happen with CF disabled?

The blur ruins your Photoshop skills

[Helmore]

Shouldn't we be worried that our salt supply won't last forever if we go on like this? I don't think this rumor has any credibility, although I have no idea what to expect from RV870 to be honest.

[STaRGaZeR]

Shouldn't we be worried that our salt supply won't last forever if we go on like this? I don't think this rumor has any credibility, although I have no idea what to expect from RV870 to be honest.

But they give more clicks to FUD sites!!!1!

Sorry NH but if this is a completely infundated rumor, just don't post it.

[Calmatory]

But they give more clicks to FUD sites!!!1!

Sorry NH but if this is a completely infundated rumor, just don't post it.

...just as 480/800 SPs were.

[RPGWiZaRD]

so a single gpu card is like the low end... if they don't fix microstuttering & co i really hope this won't happen anytime soon.

Exactly my thoughts.

[Shintai]

although I have no idea what to expect from RV870 to be honest.

I would expect something like 256 or higher MC depending on GDDR5 speeds. 800-1200shaders. (Maybe 960-1200 after RV790). Else just improved tweaked parts inside for new SM, overall DX11 and OpenCL support. Perhaps higher clocks too.

Then the usual type of cards as we have today. Possibly tho with no PLX chip. But that require AMD solve the issue did long ago with 2 GPUs directly on a PCIe bus. Sideport could also be there if they didnt abandon that idea again.

[STEvil]

Does that happen with CF disabled?



The blur ruins your Photoshop skills

I did up some without blur, just tossed that in for "bad camera pic" effect to try and get it onto FUD or something a while ago

As to glued cores it will happen eventually.

[Helmore]

I would expect something like 256 or higher MC depending on GDDR5 speeds. 800-1200shaders. (Maybe 960-1200 after RV790). Else just improved tweaked parts inside for new SM, overall DX11 and OpenCL support. Perhaps higher clocks too.

Then the usual type of cards as we have today. Possibly tho with no PLX chip. But that require AMD solve the issue did long ago with 2 GPUs directly on a PCIe bus. Sideport could also be there if they didnt abandon that idea again.

I'd say that it will be at least 1200 shaders, if they don't alter them too much from the way they currently are. I don't think they will go for a higher than 256 bit memory controller and clocks may not even change that much. ATI will probably put more emphasis on idle power consumption and try to outdo NVIDIA on that front and they should thus have lower idle draw than the current GT200b (talking about ATI's top card that is).
But what I meant to say is, will RV870 be more of a revolution or more of an evolution? RV770 is close to being a revolution, but I still consider it to be more of an evolution as it is mainly a major refinement. So will RV870 be a bigger change than RV770 is or not? I'm leaning towards the former, but we have no idea which it will be.

[Loque]

That would be called the R800 - Spontaneous Combustion Edition

[GAR]

a very skilled photoshopper....right?

I can do that with MS PAINT hehehe

[demonkevy666]

I can do that with MS PAINT hehehe

show me cores side by side then and not inline gpu to gpu to the exhaust.
p.s put them close the fan area too

[NapalmV5]

quad-core R800

[Cybercat]

Whether or not this is true, it would make sense to do, right? It would save on PCB costs significantly.

[roofsniper]

quad-core R800

[clayton]

quad-core R800

Ultimate gaming card. Video card + Built-in CPU.

[Frontl1ne]

Ultimate gaming card. Video card + Built-in CPU.

It's coming...

[Kuroimaho]

Nvidia already has 240 cores, ATI doesn't have a chance with 2 or 4, so the news is obviously fake, I am sure they will use more than that... they better prepare for the can of whoopass.

[clonez]

ha, fanboi
ati has 160 cores capable of 5 simultaneous calculations (per gpu), if you want to count that way

nice photoshops btw.

though i dont see a reason for amd to go with 4 gpu's on a pcb, each with a different package

[STEvil]

Nvidia already has 240 cores, ATI doesn't have a chance with 2 or 4, so the news is obviously fake, I am sure they will use more than that... they better prepare for the can of whoopass.

Thats sarcasm, right?

[FischOderAal]

Whether or not this is true, it would make sense to do, right? It would save on PCB costs significantly.

Especially when you think that because GPUs already have a parallel design the scaling would be good if the cores could access the same RAM. But as some already mentioned as such rumours surfaced before RV770 this would require quite a radical redesign.

[largon]

though i dont see a reason for amd to go with 4 gpu's on a pcb, each with a different package

I gather the rumor referred in OP goes like this:
1 die = "HD5870"
2 dies on 1 chip package = "HD5870 X2"
4 dies on 2 chip packages = "HD5870 X4"

I guess it could be the single die cards would use 256bit GDDR5 of cheaper (low speed bin) RAM chips, but each die in both the multi-die MCMs have 128bit GDDR5 of premium grade (high speed bin) high density chips? So no proverbial shared memory, just dual-die MCM with one 128bit bus for each die.


And a Lucid chip on-board the X4...

[Kuroimaho]

Thats sarcasm, right?

I thought the last part would give it away but that some took it seriously shows how dire the situation really is these days .