Sounds like a "Save the world" chip...
Sounds like a "Save the world" chip...
Considering the price information coming out of ATI, this makes more sense.
We were told that the 512MB model would be $199 and 1GB would be $299, and thats too much money for just an overclocked card, even if its at 950Mhz core.
New architecture (or increased shaders basically) makes more sense. The no. of shaders now is the only mystery.
Perkam
well wouldn't 960 SP's be in order? block buster with another cluster
Great news if true but i'll say it again why would anyone upgrade? No new game is coming that warrants an upgrade. That's been the case for a while unfortunately.
Because everybody needs da MEGA HURTSOriginally Posted by takamishanoku
Agreed, these days money's best spent on getting a better/bigger monitor. Arguing over monitors is less exciting than graphics cards, though.
AS IF all the interested people in the world already had modern cards.
My G92GTS 512MB is most likely going to get scrapped, soon.
Last edited by largon; 03-06-2009 at 05:57 AM.
You were not supposed to see this.
A 960 SP 48 TMU 16 ROP 850 MHz chip sounds nice, that should be fast enough to be the OC, 1 GB card to match/overtake GTX 285, correct ?
I'd guess it would be enough to match 285,not overtake it.But still,the chip will be smaller than GT200 and thus less expensive to make(and sell).Plus the X2 version of it will probably regain the high end perf. crown once again.
Why would ati go through the trouble of changing the architecture JUST to add 160 SPs ?
I'm hoping for at least 1,120 SPs, as that goes a long way in justifying a $100 premium over the current 1GB 4870 card.
Perkam
Yep, if they can take the single-chip performance crown too they'll really hit Nvidia where it hurts.
Why is the 1GB model priced $100 above the 512mb model? Ouch.
This makes sense, yes, but this is getting ridiculous how many times the RV790 rumor has changed.
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My guess is that the 1GB version will blow the GTX285 away (Mostly at higher res + High levels AA/AF), so they'll charge an extra price for that.
Ridiculous? It's a rumor and you should pay 0 attention to it.
As always.
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yeah, increasing the shaders by a 100 or 2 wont help much, for rv790 from rv770..wait or would it?
As RV770 the RV790 is still a mystery.
They are just keeping fud arround it to anyone discover what is inside. Hopefully it will end faster then GTX285.
EDIT: I take that back.
I trust that the clock speed is still very appealing to XS members. Whether it has extra units or not is just icing on the cake.
Last edited by Macadamia; 03-06-2009 at 07:07 AM.
960 SP(and likely expanded TMUs) is 20% more than what you have in RV770.Add in the extra GPU clock(13%-850 vs 750Mhz) and extra BW(10% higher GDDR5 clocks) and you end up with much powerful GPU than RV770.
PS 960SP count should be also regarded as rumor until the cards officially launch or are benchmarked.
If this is true I might switch from my (as-of-yet unpurchased) 285 to this. I've been looking for a reason to switch to ATI, but with nVidia currently whooping them in the single-GPU scene (which is the only scene I'm interested in), it's hard to justify.
Maybe people should wait abit. Since it could just be a RV770 tweaked for higher clocks as much places suggested....
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I dunno, i just thought ATi will try to keep their winning formula, making a small and efficient GPU chip, 1120 SP 55 nm chip doesn't seem to oblige with that paradigm.
Wut.
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It will NOT have extra units, just more optimized shaders/TMU etc etc.
Until GPU-accelerated physics, AI, and ray-tracing become mainstream... then we will be begging for more GPU horsepower.
If the next graphics card coming out from AMD is a new architecture I would bet it is more geared for better programmability for GPGPU applications.
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