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R700 Previews Converge: Still works to be done

July 14th, 2008 by kin AMD, Graphics, Hardware4 Comments

Today various websites have published their previews of the AMD next-generation flagship R700. Generally speaking, R700 achieves tremendous scaling over a single RV770, and outperforms GTX 280 a lot. (for the crysis, there’s other words)

Although sharing similar results, different attitudes come out. Some websites think the R700 matches the crown of performace, while not too expensive; However, others think R700 fails to be perfect under all resolutions, and fails to outstand in old games. What’s more, still works to be done on the driver.

Fortunately, R700 is announcing on 12th August. AMD has still one month to polish their flagship. On the other hand, time has been left to NVIDIA to catch up, the g200b or so. Let’s wait and see.

R700 features:

Stream Processors 800 x 2
Texture Units 40 x 2
ROPs 16 x 2
Core Clock 750MHz
Memory Clock 900MHz (3600MHz data rate) GDDR5
Memory Bus Width 256-bit x 2
Frame Buffer 1GB x 2
Transistor Count 956M x 2
Manufacturing Process TSMC 55nm
Price Point > $500

R700 Previews:

Hexus
PCPerspective
AnAndTech
Driverheaven
Hardocp
Extremetech
Techreport

4 Responses to “R700 Previews Converge: Still works to be done”

  1. Anonymous Says:
    July 15th, 2008 at 5:22 am

    From most previews it appears to have a frame buffer of 1GB x 2. I am guessing you are quoting anandtech’s figures which can normally be relied upon but in this case seem to probably be wrong.

  2. kin Says:
    July 15th, 2008 at 10:03 am

    thank you for informing
    I check anandtech again and they have modified the features, it should be 1GB x 2

  3. Anonymous Says:
    July 17th, 2008 at 8:20 pm

    wut

  4. With R700 AMD has HD 4800 series wholly reach 80℃ idle Temperature - Expreview.com Says:
    July 23rd, 2008 at 4:15 pm

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