AMD's two new graphics cards launching today are both based off a new GPU, referred to internally as the RV670. The basic architecture of the hardware is largely unchanged from R600; there has been some additional functionality added, and a great deal of internal bandwidth removed, but other than that this is very much an R600 based part. The biggest news of this part is that it is fabbed on a 55nm TSMC process. This is a half-node process based on 65nm technology, giving AMD an advantage in die size (cost) and potentially clock speed and/or power.
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AMD: Catalyst 7.10 (page 5)
this means they used the old drivers, which results in a bad performance, the drivers have NO optimizations for they new Radeons.
Like nVIDIA when the 8800GT come out they released a new driver, guess for what, lol
I'm waiting for the new Catalyst 7.11 to see what it says.
P.S: All this crap around ATI it's because of AMD, which buyed ATI to screw up to good quality, all we can see after AMD acquire ATI is crap, nothing more.
Drivers take months to release, performance are poor when compared to nVIDIA.
Shame on AMD.
Just because they bought up the company, doesn't mean they changed out the whole development department. Nvidia's had to play a lot of catch up, the same way Intel did, and now they're up on top. Hopefully, Nvidia being on top will push ATI to bring out their big guns once more.
Only thing we can do right now is root for the ones on bottom because, without them, there is no progression.
Thanks,
Chris
It is, actually, possible to get a 680i board to run Crossfire. You need a customised BIOS, though.
The drastically lower power consumption won me over. But I'm still waiting to see if 8800 GTs with better cooling are released. The single-slot cooler was about the only thing bothering me about them -- and how retailers were overpricing them. Gotta thank ATI for driving prices down at least.
This is great that the prices are coming down on both sides and i hope to get an HD3850.
Don't know why, but I guess if it can be done, someone's going to do it!!
The system can also be designed with either an AMD or Intel CPU.
HP can't do anything to combine SLI and Crossfire, only Intel, AMD or nVidia can do it.
When you configure a setup it aways states ASUS Striker Extreme mobo , that is a 680i based SLI mobo....
something wrong with that site...
Last edited by Beastage on 15 Nov 2007 - 21:11
HP can't do anything to combine SLI and Crossfire, only Intel, AMD or nVidia can do it.
When you configure a setup it aways states ASUS Striker Extreme mobo , that is a 680i based SLI mobo....
something wrong with that site...
Actually, it has been confirmed by several websites that you can run two NVIDIA cards in SLI or two ATI/AMD cards in Crossfire on that motherboard on the HP Blackbird 002.
Need some proof from a legitimate website? Have a look at this page from AnandTech's first look at the HP Blackbird 002. The first paragraph says it all.
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