Dual RV670 to score 960GigaFlops

[JPB]

ATI's new high end will have two RV670 chips and has many codenames. Some of the ones we've head includes R670 and R680 but lets simply call it dual RV670.


The new card will be able to score an amazing score of 960GigaFlops. This is a bit more than a double the performance of R600 chip which can score 474GigaFlops.


Looks like ATI's next generation high end card with dual RV670 will give Nvidia something to worry about, but Nvidia's next year's high end will also have two chips on two PCBs.


ATI's approach is to have two chips on a single PCB.

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[cmdrdredd]

Wait and see...

 

[nonameo]

If it uses some other technique besides crossfire, it might work. Otherwise I can't see it being really popular.

 

[Polish3d]

Wellllllllllllll it might be interesting if it were priced competitively with nvidia's high end, say at 4-500 bucks, and performed similiar to X1900xtx xfire vs 7900gtx or something.

 

[electronicmaji]

ROFL I'll beleive it when it happens.

 

[Genx87]

Have to wait and see. Believe Nvidia was touting 1Teraflop on a single chip. If they dual those watch out!

 

[CrystalBay]

Well, may be now after the cleaned house of PR and keep up drivers with hotfixes and such ,they may stand a chance...

 

[electronicmaji]

considering Nvidia has already hit the 1 teraflop limit on 2 chips It would be easy for them to consolidate all that...Ati on the other hand.....welll it would be too expensive and a 2 chip next gen card is pointless.....

 

[cmdrdredd]

Dual GPU solutions in one card will increase the 3 things that people complain about. Heat, Power, and noise. not to mention the price will be high too. All very bad things IMO.

 

[alcoholbob]

Hah, games are just too "demanding" these days. They run fine at 720p on the 360/PS3, but on a PC with twice the processing power quite often we aren't even seeing half the performance of the consoles, when playing the exact same game at similar resolutions.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: Astrallite
Hah, games are just too "demanding" these days. They run fine at 720p on the 360/PS3, but on a PC with twice the processing power quite often we aren't even seeing half the performance of the consoles, when playing the exact same game at similar resolutions.

That's an interesting way to put it. The problem is, on a console they have no drivers or things to worry about. The game is made to run on a very specific set of hardware. Not so on a PC. Typically you are also running a PC with higher visual clarity. In the Xbox360 version of FEAR you had no options to turn on and off particle effects advanced shader options, soft shadows etc.

 

[StopSign]

Originally posted by: JPB
Some of the ones we've head includes R670 and R680 but lets simply call it dual RV670.

So fun watching people speculate. I will go ahead and say that one of these two names is correct. You all have a 50/50 chance of guessing right.