The ATI Radeon 5XXX Thread

[saaya]

The same with ATI since RV670, more SPs, tweaks and shrinks.
Nothing REALLY new from both sides since G80/R600. No need to reinvent the wheel... yet.

I think G80 to G92 was still some notable tweaking, and R600 ro RV670 was some major tweaking...

G92 to g200 no tweaking at all... was it? just pumping it up...
and g200 65nm to 55nm was no tweaking at all either, was it? just shrinking it down... g200 to g2xx was just gluing 10.1 and gddr5 support on and shrinking... i really hope g300 isnt just g2xx bumped up again...

Just one thing... tape out a few months ago, rev A1.
Production rev A2...

thats what nvidia says, but they decide whats written on the chip... they could as well print A5 on it... and if they would have had semi working g300 that long ago im pretty sure they would have used it somehow in pr or showed to their big partners... but they havent... so i think thats just nvidia pr... i think the big chip that taped out in 40nm that long ago were 40nm gt200 direct shrink attempts, not gt300... of course, they might have doubled up gt200 and called it gt300 if it would have worked...