R600 review...

~sidewinder~ · Dec 30, 2006, 09:01 PM

I found a link to an article at dailytech about specs and benchmarks of AMD/ATI's upcoming R600 gpu. Dailytech says R600 revision on March..?

**kris23** · Dec 30, 2006, 09:41 PM

too bad im an intel guy... the AMD dual socket quad cores are too expensive to be worth it right now

Erroneus · Dec 30, 2006, 10:00 PM

Dude it's about ATI r600, a gfx card.

Anyway i really doubt those numbers are true, not so much because of the number them self, but because of the site...

Level505.com and all it has, is this article. It seems like a site setup only to get some traffic.

**kris23** · Dec 30, 2006, 10:29 PM

lol the ATi AMD fusion turned things in my head upside down........especially since AMD has become both nVidia and Intels competition. i cant picture ATi (now AMD) to continue letting intel make chipsets for the cards. thats where my thing came from

CDsDontBurn · Dec 30, 2006, 11:06 PM

honestly, i hope AMD and ATI break up and become individual entities again.

BTW, the link doesn't work for me.

**kris23** · Dec 31, 2006, 01:09 AM

i dont think they will break up really.....ATi is like a gold mine for AMD. theres that idea floating somewhere on this site that AMD can make a GPU/CPU superchip that will eliminate graphics cards. Even on the here and now, AMD has more resources to build off of...the new AMD Crossfire chipsets. so yea it doesnt look like they will allow Intel to use Crossfire anytime soon....other than the 975x chipset that may get old soon.

but this just means more opportunities for an Intel/Nvidia joint effort....better Nvidia chipsets and more attention to Intel..

i cant wait to see what the heck happens in 2007-2008

Ronin27 · Dec 31, 2006, 02:28 AM

Look at the benchmarks, it beats the 8800 GTX. Holy pop!

H3X4D3C1M4L · Dec 31, 2006, 04:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kris23

theres that idea floating somewhere on this site that AMD can make a GPU/CPU superchip that will eliminate graphics cards.

It'll never happen. They won't eliminate GFX cards because the extreme gamer market likes to upgrade and is their best cash source. The enterprise market, however, which doesn't need uber GFX to be displaying pages of code and HTML, may like it for power saving and simplicity... but the hybrid G/CPU combo won't eliminate graphics cards

CDsDontBurn · Dec 31, 2006, 04:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ronin27

Look at the benchmarks, it beats the 8800 GTX. Holy pop!

what benchmarks?

Erroneus · Dec 31, 2006, 07:28 AM

Works fine here.

dsdsdk · Dec 31, 2006, 08:05 AM

If Level505's comments seem a little too pro-ATI, don't be too surprised. When asked if the site was affiliated in any way to ATI or AMD, the owner replied to DailyTech with the statement that "two staff members of ours are directly affiliated with AMD's business [development] division."
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5524
hehe

Lowfat · Dec 31, 2006, 09:30 AM

I wouldn't believe what you see too much. Seems far from a credible site.

***temeteus82*** · Dec 31, 2006, 09:41 AM

I wait the DH review.... Hope it comes when the NDA is lifted... Right Z???

**Vikingod** · Dec 31, 2006, 10:08 AM

Site is definetely suspect. THis is the only article on the site, and the quality is very poor. I'd take what is said with a grain of salt.

Dark Lord · Dec 31, 2006, 12:30 PM

theres just too many things i saw on their that screened BS to me. like ati's and nvidia's next round of next gen graphics cards comeing in Q3/Q4 of 07.

"It will be interesting to see if the R600 in CrossFire Mode can handle Oblivion at 2560×1600 at a somehow playable frame rate, but maybe we will have to wait for the next graphics card generation (nVidia G90, ATI R700), coming around Q3-Q4/2007."

**kris23** · Dec 31, 2006, 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by H3X4D3C1M4L

It'll never happen. They won't eliminate GFX cards because the extreme gamer market likes to upgrade and is their best cash source. The enterprise market, however, which doesn't need uber GFX to be displaying pages of code and HTML, may like it for power saving and simplicity... but the hybrid G/CPU combo won't eliminate graphics cards

yea i guess that makes sense

RaveneR · Jan 1, 2007, 01:16 AM

well, lets all just keep our opinions to ourselves and wait, we will know the truth when it comes out.

Witchhunter · Jan 1, 2007, 01:07 PM

Interweb forums are not for keeping your opinions to yourself! :P

That site is total BS, I don't understand the point though as there's not even any advertising on it to make money from all their traffic.

**kris23** · Jan 1, 2007, 01:38 PM

yea we should just wait until the cards actually hit the shelves

wiskerbizkit · Jan 1, 2007, 01:56 PM

Those tests look a little bogus to me. trying to say that my 7950gx2 gets 8 fps in oblivion at those settingS? I'm on a far inferior system and i trash those framerates.

H3X4D3C1M4L · Jan 1, 2007, 02:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wiskerbizkit

Those tests look a little bogus to me. trying to say that my 7950gx2 gets 8 fps in oblivion at those settingS? I'm on a far inferior system and i trash those framerates.

Yeah no kidding

Judas · Jan 2, 2007, 01:08 PM

we'll see soon enough.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Jan 2, 2007, 05:43 PM

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Erroneus · Jan 2, 2007, 06:55 PM

It's part of their cunning tactic, to make it look like the site was pulled offline because of lawsuits threat, due to broken NDA, so the results would seem real...