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Radeon HD 2950 XTX to launch in Q3?
Author: Tim SmalleyPublished: 9th May 2007
R650 to arrive in Q3 of this year -- just one quarter after R600 launches?
The site claims that the new GPU is codenamed R650, and it is based on 65 nanometre process technology.
R650 will apparently be branded as the Radeon HD 2950 XTX and will feature 1024MB of GDDR4 memory. The report also states that the cards are expected to launch as early as August or September -- the latter part of Q3.
This is a similar situation to what happened with the Radeon X1800-series, which were replaced only four months later by the Radeon X1900-series of graphics processing units.
If this does turn out to be the case, we have to wonder what Nvidia will have up its sleeve, as that is almost one year after it originally launched its GeForce 8800 family of GPUs.
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But I agree - hurry up and release the 2900, already! :D
NDAs are a pain, aren't they?
With the delays that R600 has had, I can easily see some sort of refresh of the product in the relatively short term (in rather the same style that X1900 came shortly after X1800) be it a die shrink or something different. Given that AMD are already making 65nm chips, it can't be that hard to alter the process to do R600 cores... of course, with the increased number of transistors I'm sure yields will drop like a rock. But then, I'm not an electronic engineer, so my knowledge on that front is relatively limited. :(
I meant more like the X1800->X1900 shift by time delay, more than by architectural alterations. :) I thought that the X1950 came out quite late after the X1900, while the X1900 was out just a few months after X1800...
The rumour is either Monday or Tuesday of next week...
If anything I expect the 8800GTS to drop towards the £150 range, and the GTX and Ultra will be left to fight the 2900XT. Then an 8850 with 1Gb of RAM will appear soon after to destroy the 2900XTX...
The reason for my differing with you this time is that the X800 series was a complete reworking of the core infrastructure over the 9800 series and the X1800 and X1900 where only revisions of each other. The X2900 series is a complete reworking of the core over the X1900 series just as the X1800 was over the X800 series.
Anyway with all the delays that have occurred with the R600 it is clear that yields have not been so hot for the X2900 XTX and the X2900 XT and is the reason why just like the X800 series we will see an over abundance of lower priced and powered cores similar to the X300, X600 and X700 that dominated the R400 line and ultimately reversed to the negitive ATI fortunes.
ATI do need to get the card out of the gate as the X2800 cards i think have disapointed alot hat have waited 6-8 months for the card i sold my 7950 GX2 before it became not worth any thing,. considering it now i would of got the 8800 gts 640mb not the 8800 GTX as all my games are limted by my cpu and my monitor cant go any higher to push the card heh)
i still with amd for this turn {or last 5 turns/cpus} (3800+ X2 sold droped in an 5600X2 @ 3.1Ghz :) £60 upgrade) do hope there cpus are better then core 2 duo at the end of this year {oo sig change}
GPU's suck now.
the ati 1950 has been placed as best buy at this time (as the price of the 8800 is to fast for its time heh) if looking for an high end card but not to high priced (and not bothed about DX10 yet)