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LAN Party Forums => FITES News => Started by: kona on June 07, 2007, 06:39:46 AM

Title: R650 to Improve texture power, R700 to Improve the way we think of a GPU
Post by: kona on June 07, 2007, 06:39:46 AM

There are early indicatations that R700 will be a multi-chip design, and that a low-end SKU will have one small GPU. A performance part or mainstream part will have two GPU's, and the high-end/enthusiast will have 4 to 8 GPU's on board. R700 will also be DX10.1.

In the mean time, R650 is stated to have greatly increased texture power.

    As ATI's R650 launch gets closer and closer, more rumors and official information begin to surface. This also applies for the upcoming R700 GPU, which is supposed to revolutionize the graphics card sector. The latest developments point to the fact that the R700 multi-core chip will support the improved DirectX version 10.1 (rumored to be renamed to DirectX 11).

LINK (http://news.softpedia.com/news/ATI-039-s-R700-to-support-DirectX-10-1-55321.shtml)

Title: Re: R650 to Improve texture power, R700 to Improve the way we think of a GPU
Post by: zx2slow on June 07, 2007, 09:03:08 AM

If a DX11/DX10.1 card is in the dev pipe I am not going to blow a wad of cash on a DX10 card.  I'll wait and get a nice DX11.10.1 card.  The GPU scene is getting crazy.