RV635 spy pic leaked, and our speculations [updated]

　

No words form the source post. So we can only make some speculations.

The PCB design is exactly the same with HD 2600XT in our hand. The difference is RV635 added on some more capacitors in the front, memory chips, and a 16pin connector at the back.

We noticed the CrossfireX connector is disappeared in HD 3650’s board. That’s because it will use software-crossfire.

There is two 2pin fan power connector in the front. What is that for? And According to the white line in the front of the board the stock cooler seems not changed.

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Here is a reference 2600XT, can you find any difference comparing to RV635?

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December 14th, 2007 by Jeff AMD, Graphics, NEWS1 Comment

leaked: AMD 2007-2008 platform roadmap

　

In the roadmap, AMD will debut their 45nm CPU in the second half of 2008. But even their new architecture “Deneb” and”Propus” still doesn’t support DDR3 till 2009.

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December 14th, 2007 by Jeff AMD, NEWSNo Comments

NVIDIA finally announces 3-way SLI

　

NVIDIA said in the announcement:

“NVIDIA’s new 3-way SLI delivers up to a 2.8x performance increase over a single GPU system, giving high-end gamers 60 frames per second at resolutions as high as 2560×1600 and with 8x antialiasing. 3-way SLI technology means you no longer have to dial back the image quality settings on the newest PC games. For example, gamers with 3-way SLI can play Crysis at high resolutions such as 1920×1600 with all the advanced DirectX 10 effects such as motion blur, ambient occlusion, and soft shadows turned on.

The heart of a 3-way SLI system is an NVIDIA nForce(R) 680 SLI MCP motherboard and three GeForce 8800 GTX or GeForce 8800 Ultra graphics cards. With 3-way SLI, gamers can harness the power of 384 stream processors, a 110+ gigatexel per second texture fill rate, and over two gigabytes of graphics memory for no-compromise gaming performance.”

So if you lucky enough to have a 680i, three 8800Ultra, a juicy 1200W PSU, you still need to pay 130 RMB, or 18 USD for the 3-way SLI connector.

You can find reviews/previews in this site: PC Games Hardware (German) Guru3D FiringSquad Tomshardware (chinese).

December 14th, 2007 by Jeff Graphics, NEWS, NVIDIA2 Comments

[Driver update] ForceWare 169.25 beta (supports 3-way SLI)

　

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December 14th, 2007 by Jeff Drivers, NEWS, NVIDIANo Comments