Computex 2009: AMD Demonstrates working 40nm DirectX 11 Silicon

[drjunk]

I would'nt mind if this card ends up being an updated rv790, and not the full specced rv870. Clues pointing to die size, suggests amd are concentrating on energy consumption this time around. Evergreen code name also points in that direction....but just my thoughts.

[Wrench]

I think Shintai sole purpose is to antagonize everyone.

[lockee]

I think Shintai sole purpose is to antagonize everyone.

I think he's a stock pumper.

[Lightman]

I would'nt mind if this card ends up being an updated rv790, and not the full specced rv870. Clues pointing to die size, suggests amd are concentrating on energy consumption this time around. Evergreen code name also points in that direction....but just my thoughts.

I'm with you on that!
Performance good enough to play console ports on 24'' screen and low power consumption! I'm jumping on such a thing straight away!

[perkam]

I would'nt mind if this card ends up being an updated rv790, and not the full specced rv870. Clues pointing to die size, suggests amd are concentrating on energy consumption this time around. Evergreen code name also points in that direction....but just my thoughts.

This isn't VIA we're talking about, its good ol' ATI inside of AMD.

It's going to be $299 and its going to be close to level with the 4870X2.

Those are not my predictions, they are my expectations.

Perkam

[Chickenfeed]

This isn't VIA we're talking about, its good ol' ATI inside of AMD.

It's going to be $299 and its going to be close to level with the 4870X2.

Those are not my predictions, they are my expectations.

Perkam

That sounds entirely reasonable and I expect no less myself. Hopefully they deliver.

As far as power consumption goes, ATI could do a tad better with their idle ( hopefully they've managed to get their GDDR5 controllers to behave better ) but the load on the 4870 was reasonable I felt. Given most people leave their systems on unattended for extended peroids ( waste of power I know...) the lower the idle usage the better.

[FischOderAal]

I would'nt mind if this card ends up being an updated rv790, and not the full specced rv870. Clues pointing to die size, suggests amd are concentrating on energy consumption this time around. Evergreen code name also points in that direction....but just my thoughts.

Maybe this chip is just a shrinked and updated RV790 and it is AMD's lower value-chip, you know, like HD-4770 is to HD-4890 now. At least I hope AMD is not aiming that low for their RV870.

(I have to admit that I completely lost track to the rumours about recent hardware...)

[informal]

Guys,the "not new architecture" means the chip is based on the same RV770/790 design,just expanded by a fair margin in SP/TMU/ROP areas as 40nm node allows it within same TDP.I would expect around 1200SP,48TMUs and 32 ROPs for RV870 part.My estimate is that clocks will be the same or a bit better than RV790.You can scale down from this to RV840 etc.X2 will be the same as now.

[LordEC911]

Guys,the "not new architecture" means the chip is based on the same RV770/790 design,just expanded by a fair margin in SP/TMU/ROP areas as 40nm node allows it within same TDP.I would expect around 1200SP,48TMUs and 32 ROPs for RV870 part.My estimate is that clocks will be the same or a bit better than RV790.You can scale down from this to RV840 etc.X2 will be the same as now.

1600SPs and 80TMUs paired with 32ROPs is what I am expecting.
Hopefully this ~181mm2 chip has at leat another pair of SIMDs, to add some more FPP over RV790. Remember all those rumors that RV790 was actually a 960SP chip on 40nm? Maybe they were getting mixed info with this chip...