All the "card name neysayers" should at leased take this into consideration. Posted by Dahbob over at guru3d................


Quote Originally Posted by Dahbob View Post
There has been rumours of name change going along with this

With only 2 exceptions, names of the ATi's products launched in last 7 years, always corresponded to die size:

101 - 150mm˛ => x6xx

* RV830 (Radeon HD5500): 104 mm˛
* RV635 (Radeon HD3650): 120 mm˛
* RV530 (Radeon X1600): 150 mm˛
* RV630 (Radeon HD2600): 150 mm˛
* RV730 (Radeon HD4600): 150 mm˛

151 - 190mm˛ => x7xx

* RV410 (Radeon X700): 156 mm˛
* RV840 (Radeon HD5700): 170 mm˛

191 - 340mm˛ => x8xx

* RV670 (Radeon HD38x0): 192 mm˛
* R430 (Radeon X800XL): 240 mm˛
* RV770 (Radeon HD4800): 256 mm˛
* R420 (Radeon X800XT): 281 mm˛
* RV790 (Radeon HD4890): 282 mm˛
* R520 (Radeon X1800): 288 mm˛
* RV870 (Radeon HD5800): 331 mm˛

341 - 500mm˛ => x9xx

* R580 (Radeon X1900XT): 342 mm˛
* R580+ (Radeon X1950XT): 34x mm˛
* R600 (Radeon HD2900): 420 mm˛

The only two exceptions in this system were two "pipe-cleaner" parts, which were used for testing of new manufacturing process and because of that, they were significantly smaller, than other GPUs of that family: RV570 (80nm), RV740 (40nm).