Advanced Micro Devices said on Thursday that even though its ATI Radeon HD 2000-series graphics chips family has experienced massive delays, the company is still positioned to deliver competitive graphics solutions to the market place. ATI, graphics product group of AMD, will concentrate on releasing “DirectX 10+” graphics chips next year as well as on improving the multi-GPU technology.
“In the enthusiast segment you can’t sit still. So, we will refresh Spider [AMD’s 2007 enthusiast platform – Editor] and will certainly bring quad-cores on 45nm in 2008, we will have a new enthusiast chipset and certainly we will have a new high-end GPU family as well in 2008 on the Leo platform,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager of graphics product group, at AMD's Technology Analyst Day. Unfortunately, not a lot of information is known about AMD’s code-named R700 graphics product family. What was released was that the new graphics cores will support DirectX 10+ capabilities, PCI Express 2.0 interconnection, ATI Avivo HD video engine, universal video decoding (UVD), DisplayPort connector as well as ATI CrossFire multi-GPU technology.
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“In the enthusiast segment you can’t sit still. So, we will refresh Spider [AMD’s 2007 enthusiast platform – Editor] and will certainly bring quad-cores on 45nm in 2008, we will have a new enthusiast chipset and certainly we will have a new high-end GPU family as well in 2008 on the Leo platform,” said Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager of graphics product group, at AMD's Technology Analyst Day. Unfortunately, not a lot of information is known about AMD’s code-named R700 graphics product family. What was released was that the new graphics cores will support DirectX 10+ capabilities, PCI Express 2.0 interconnection, ATI Avivo HD video engine, universal video decoding (UVD), DisplayPort connector as well as ATI CrossFire multi-GPU technology.
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I suspect the release of this card will align with DirectX 10+ release and NVidia will probably release a similar card at the same time.
What a kick in the teeth to the 12 or so people that actually bought a 2900XT card.
It's their flagship product. I didn't make any (direct) reference to how it compares to the competition.
What? In the same way nVidia talking about doing a 8900GTX would be?
If I were to guess I'd say the 8900GTX was something nVidia had around the corner that they could release had ATI delivered a killer blow. That didn't happen so they didn't bother.
NVidia will be releasing the 9800GTX in November. That means that the 8800GTX has had the performance crown for one year (I'm not counting the 8800 Ultra as knocking the GTX off the top since it was basically just an over-priced, overclocked GTX). Anyone that bought a GTX last Nov/Dec should be very happy with that return. Normally one can expect a top-of-the-range product to remain top-of-the-range for at most 6 months. Probably less.
Looks like AMD is now firmly relegated to the mid-to-low end of the market.
Try "Google"!
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