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Tim S · 28th Sep 2007, 11:52

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/09...raphics_chip/1

AMD is getting ready to introduce a new mid-to-high end GPU known as RV670. Information and pictures start to flood in.

Mankz · 28th Sep 2007, 12:16

Apparently there are also rumors of an X2950XT coming out in November!

Should make an interesting christmas!

bubsterboo · 28th Sep 2007, 12:24

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will this take the mid-range to where it should have been originally?

I sure hope so! This generations midrange cards have been very disappointing from both nvidia and ati.

Goty · 28th Sep 2007, 12:39

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will this take the mid-range to where it should have been originally?

I sure hope so! This generations midrange cards have been very disappointing from both nvidia and ati.

Unfortunately, that's only out of character for nvidia. ATI's midrange cards are usually fairly disappointing at first with some decent refreshes later on in the cycle.

Cobalt · 28th Sep 2007, 13:09

I promised myself that the next graphics card I bought would be 512MB because I am already starting to run into a texture size wall with certain games *glares at oblivion* and I want something that will last as long as my 9800pro did. Maybe that will never happen but I hated that I had to replace my last two cards within a year. It probably won't be untill the next generation of DX10 graphics cards that I upgrade at this rate. The price performance ratio in the current gen is abysmal.

devdevil85 · 28th Sep 2007, 16:50

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RV670 looks set bridge the gap between the Radeon HD 2900 XT and the Radeon HD 2600 XT.

I AM that gap....I don't want a piece of crap, but I can't afford the cream of the crop....it's sad, but mid-range is really the better way to go for me...

EQC · 28th Sep 2007, 17:52

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The card pictured has a single slot cooler and a single 6-pin PCI-Express power connector. These should be as a result of the benefits of moving to 55nm and also from PCI-Express 2.0’s increased power draw through the interconnect, which is up to 150W from 75W on older versions of the specification.

I hope the reduction to a single 6-pin power connector has nothing to do with the PCI-Express 2.0 power allotment -- that would imply that the card couldn't work (or at least wouldn't get enough power to run at full speed) on any of the PCI-Express 1.0 boards that have sold over the last several years.

Or maybe it draws 150 Watts in total, so on a 2.0 board, you don't even need to plug in the 6-pin connector, and on a 1.0 board, it'll get power through both the motherboard and the 6-pin?

Drexial · 28th Sep 2007, 19:59

ATi really needs to cook something good up to bring back the competition between the two. hopefully this will help a little.

Is it also amusing that the watermark on the pictures is nv6800? cause that makes me think of nVidia 6800.... and its a ATi card? no? just me? ok....

sam.g.taylor · 28th Sep 2007, 20:24

that much electricity - and the mid 8-series will still probably beat it.

So much for ATi being green...

Bladestorm · 28th Sep 2007, 20:28

Manufacturers would be insane to make PCI-E 2.0 only cards anytime in the near future, so I wouldn't worry too much about that.

Edit add (talk about going off half cocked..)

I'm waiting for a decent mid-range DX10 card myself, somehow if this is going to be less powerfull than the GTS 640mb/2900 region I doubt its the card for me

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Kinda waiting for Nvidia to come out with 89xx or 9xxx I think, though unless AMD can pull together major competition soon, anything nvidia do eventually release is likely to be hideously expensive still.

HourBeforeDawn · 29th Sep 2007, 00:13

ooow interesting I cant wait to see this in real world test ^_^

Aankhen · 29th Sep 2007, 15:35

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Manufacturers would be insane to make PCI-E 2.0 only cards anytime in the near future, so I wouldn't worry too much about that.

They would have to work pretty hard to make PCIe 2.0–only cards, I think, since PCIe 2.0 is backwards compatible.

Bindibadgi · 29th Sep 2007, 15:43

Yea it is, and we've heard from more than one source that PCI-Express 2.0 is more or less nil performance increase.

devdevil85 · 1st Oct 2007, 19:55

single slot cooler = positive / single 6-pin PCIe power connector = positive for some reason I was thinking the GPU was going to be based on TSMC's 45nm process....o well....

completemadness · 1st Oct 2007, 23:32

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Yea it is, and we've heard from more than one source that PCI-Express 2.0 is more or less nil performance increase.

doesn't surprise me, the change from AGP to PCI-E was a pretty low performance gain as well
The cards are far more limited by other things then the bus

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28th Sep 2007, 13:09	#5
Cobalt Multimodder Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Surrey, UK Posts: 248	I promised myself that the next graphics card I bought would be 512MB because I am already starting to run into a texture size wall with certain games glares at oblivion and I want something that will last as long as my 9800pro did. Maybe that will never happen but I hated that I had to replace my last two cards within a year. It probably won't be untill the next generation of DX10 graphics cards that I upgrade at this rate. The price performance ratio in the current gen is abysmal.

28th Sep 2007, 19:59	#8
Drexial Supermodder Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 297	ATi really needs to cook something good up to bring back the competition between the two. hopefully this will help a little. Is it also amusing that the watermark on the pictures is nv6800? cause that makes me think of nVidia 6800.... and its a ATi card? no? just me? ok....

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devdevil85 Hypermodder Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: US of A Posts: 884	single slot cooler = positive / single 6-pin PCIe power connector = positive for some reason I was thinking the GPU was going to be based on TSMC's 45nm process....o well....