NDA leaked from amd developers website, upcoming rv770 tech demo for june 25th to see it in HD Add &fmt=18 to the end of the URL. For an in depth analysis of nvid vs ati vs intel in this 2 years
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Yes, nVIDIA can make a gtx280 x2,but only by using a double pcb which drives costs 40%+ (512bit) compared to ATI that using a single pcb, only has to pay for the chip and better capacitors all at retail for $450 aprox, pay double and still get 2 4870 x2 crossfired at gtx280 x2 price point. Dont even think that nVIDIAs dual gpu will sell for less than $800.
At most, 94 nVIDIA GT200 572mm2 die chips can be produced on a single 300mm $25000 wafer from TSMC (their outsourced world biggest chip foundry) using 65nm process, ATI gets 200+ 260mm2 4870 chips from TSMCs 300mm wafer using 55nm process, thats why nVIDIAs latest cards are so expensive, due to monstrous chip size. So you get doa at least from 7 of those 94, while ATI gets 7 dead out of 200.The result: ATI have created the new 9700 = stellar next gen performance for the masses while nVIDIA sells stellar old chips with massive discount, which helps competition but hurts in the long term when costumers realize how easily you can discount a recently launched product (-$100 9800gtx).
About next gen stuff anything that CUDA supports like Photoshop, has already been accelerated by ATI, then add INTELs HAVOK licenced physics which out numbers nVIDIAs AGEIA game support 5 to 1 (150 vs 28 ). For the record I dumped my 3870 for 2 lovely 8800gt. Ive sold the GTs and got 2 4850 with discount at newegg for $170 each.
6 years after, once again ATI won the war by reconfiguring the rules, mainstream can play at high settings at any cyber cafe while the high end gets to play in 24" lcds and laugh but alone with 3 way gtx280 sli.Tags: amd ati rv770 r770 4800 4870 4850 gtx 280 260 gtx280 demo video card next gen |
