No such thing as ATI RV775 according to..

[Hauk]

Hot of the Fud press..

"We have to disappoint a few ATI fanboys. At this point, ATI doesn?t have a card codenamed RV775, something that Expreview wrote here. There never was and there never will be such a card.

There is no financial sense to release a slightly updated 55nm chip with a bit better specification to counter Nvidia, and as we said before, the next chip from ATI is 40nm and this should happen in Q2 2009 time. GT200 55nm chip and the new GTX 260 with 216 stream processors and a 180 driver are enough to put a lot of pressure on Radeon HD 48x0 sales, but ATI can now initiate price wars that should help the company get by until the new chip arrives.

AMD might have one more mainstream chip coming in Q1 2009 but we can assure you that there is no RV775 or any kind of faster RV770 card that will launch shortly. The next performance card from ATI is 40nm and that's it."

 

[Hauk]

Boy you gotta love Fud. He makes it sound like there won't be anything until 40nm and links to an Expreview article; but in that article, there's a chart that (unofficially) states pending 55nm releases. Not sure how he pulls that there's no RV775...

 

[Keysplayr]

To be honest, this is probably a smart move on AMD's part. (If any of it was true of course. FUD's info and Expreview's) Adding only another 8 shaders to the R770 probably would have made a spec of difference this late in the generation. The texture unit increase may have added something more and the clock increase was probably unattainable on a mass scale. I'm just looking at it from a cost perspective at this point.

 

[nRollo]

My guess is that if there is it will be a speed binned part- that would make somewhat more sense than a core revision.

Hard to say though- my ATi sources are much worse than nV sources. I think they put a corporate block on my email.

 

[SSChevy2001]

Who wouldn't want to wait a extra month and get a die shrink anyway? The only way I would be disappointed is if they still can't fix the idle power even after 40nm shrink.