ATI R600 Video Leaked

[ATI_7500]

Am I impressed?

Nah.

It's gonna take two or more years to get games which will need/benefit/use all the features of the nearly arrived stuff.

[Nick N]

Am I impressed?

Nah.

It's gonna take two or more years to get games which will need/benefit/use all the features of the nearly arrived stuff.

I would say that assessment is correct to a certain degree. The hardware changes about to take place are not as dependent as, say, a dual core must have the software written for multithread. Although multithread writes will further improve what is coming out by far, the GPU(s) having the direct bus connection to the CPU(s) cores will greatly benefit all game writes, not just multithread. Therein having a dual and quad core CPU with a single thread game has significant benefit if the OS is designed to properly deal with the processor and the bus, enter Vista.

[DizZa]

The R600 will eventually shrinked to 65nm! Amazing, on the Inq, it claims we may have 8800GTX perfomance for 8800GTS price! I love you ATI.... Oh wait, I always have.....

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38837

[Nick N]

The R600 will eventually shrinked to 65nm! Amazing, on the Inq, it claims we may have 8800GTX perfomance for 8800GTS price! I love you ATI.... Oh wait, I always have.....

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38837

The Inq is not one of my favorite sources of -accurate- information however in this case what they printed is accurate and goes to what I posted on page 1 about the shift AMD is forcing ATi to undertake. There will be no more consumer price gouging and games with consumers

[DizZa]

Thanks for reply Nick.

, this is where we will see if ATi pulls away as the leader in graphics technology once again.

IMO, ATi has always been infront since the Radeon 9 series......

[Nick N]

Thanks for reply Nick.

, this is where we will see if ATi pulls away as the leader in graphics technology once again.

IMO, ATi has always been infront since the Radeon 9 series......

In my opinion ATi has always produced a higher grade image quality over Nvidia. My comment was pointed more toward the sales end.  :)

[ATI_7500]

ATI has lost much of its appeal ever since AMD bought them.

Sure, this will benefit future chip characteristics, as Nick pointed out, but it's horrible on an economical base. I fear things like "ATI is only gonna work 100% with an AMD CPU" and the infamous "market moloch" who sells great products, but can dictate prices and a good part of the market.

Nvidia used to be the "bad guy" for me, ever since they bought 3DFX, but now that AMD controls ATI...good bye to the good old competition days.



P.S: The 9700Pro was an awesome card nonetheless.

[Nick N]

ATI has lost much of its appeal ever since AMD bought them.

Sure, this will benefit future chip characteristics, as Nick pointed out, but it's horrible on an economical base. I fear things like "ATI is only gonna work 100% with an AMD CPU" and the infamous "market moloch" who sells great products, but can dictate prices and a good part of the market.

Nvidia used to be the "bad guy" for me, ever since they bought 3DFX, but now that AMD controls ATI...good bye to the good old competition days.



P.S: The 9700Pro was an awesome card nonetheless.

No way is it horrible

Think about it

If ATi has the the ability to flood the market with CGPU's and other technology they can drop their price significantly, Nvidia has no choice but to lower their prices and play fair.

The only way the playing field goes back to the way it was is in Intel gobbles up Nvidia and does the same.

If you think those two are bad, if you were a fly on the wall at a Intel / motherboard rep or Intel / Computer rep meeting and the manufacture was give the public something Intel didn't like, you would see something like this:

http://www.jibjab.com/jokebox/jokebox/j ... keid/39775

[ATI_7500]

If ATi has the the ability to flood the market with CGPU's and other technology they can drop their price significantly, Nvidia has no choice but to lower their prices and play fair.

...NVidia loses nonetheless and either gets bought by Intel or files bankrupcy...


ATI's potential is dangerous for the market. It's like them sitting on a nuke and looking for the trigger.

If you think those two are bad, if you were a fly on the wall at a Intel / motherboard rep or Intel / Computer rep meeting and the manufacture was give the public something Intel didn't like, you would see something like this:

http://www.jibjab.com/jokebox/jokebox/j ... keid/39775

Knew it!