Final DX 10-chips of AMD
Single months after nVidia GeForce 8 enters also ATI, shortly taken about through AMD, the DirectX 10-fight bound. The Canadian producer introduces its newest generation, on the R600-kern based graphic chips. The errand resembles - surprising enough - that ATI no answer ready has the GeForce 8800 GTX.
Differently than by nVidia, that mostly firstly are high-end product on the market brings and tries will be in the next months afgeslankte (read: cheaper) versions at the man to bring, the Radeon HD 2000 at the same time available in ten different tastes: five furrow the portable computer and five furrow the desktop.
The ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2000 has been intended for use in notebooks and will from the second half of May available be. All these chips, of the records HD 2300 till the mid-range HD 2600XT, have been based on a 65 nm-production process. That limits the powerverbruik and must the battery duration thus to good come.
From July find the five variants of the desktopchips their away to the consumer. In the budget segment, we find the HD 2400 Per and HD 2400 XT, of which some to all probability liabilities cooled will can become - thus without loud fans.
The HD 2600 Per and HD 2600 XT address on the middle segment and the prijsbewuste gamer, while the Radeon HD 2900 XT manufactured, in contrast till the other HD 2000-desktopchips still in a 80 nm-production process, opposite the GeForce 8800 GTS placed becomes.
Remains the question with which ATI nVidia speeds kings to the crown want to stick. GTX is even recent a something more fast clocked Ultra-version brought out by the GeForce 8800.
Until for shorten were displayed the Radeon HD 2900 XTX, with not less then 1 GB DDR4-memory, above at the ATI-product line. This card appears ended up to be however in the vergeetput; we find him on no single roadmap more back and do not ask about it answers ATI avoiding or totally.
As source the HD 2900 XT as the HD 2900 XTX will the same graphic core use, thus we suspect that ATI problems has the DDR4-memory good performing to integrate in the card design. Contact persons by single producers of graphic cards appear suspect this to affirm. It is yet but sore the question or the Radeon HD 2900 XTX ever on the market will appeared.
(Not) fast enough”
Unfortunately we may present you yet no benchmarkscores. Tests that before already leaked became on the internet show however at that the performances, under Windows XP with DirectX 9-games, layer lie then that of counterparts in the nVidia-camp.
It remains however wait for how the R600-kern self will behave in pure DirectX 10-games under Windows Vista, since ATI in contrast till nVidia source already sees to about a definitive driverversie for Microsofts youngest operating system. From the second half of May, you can find these new chips in the store rack. About that the in portable computers gentegreerde variants, for on the desktopchips is it yet wait until July.
A survey of the new technologies that ATI news drive, you find in the june number of PC Magazine.