Originally posted by: Drayvn
Originally posted by: Intelia
Nice work Creig. I say nay can't be . No way! They ain't ! ARE THEY??????
Here is a real ? why is ATI being so slow to bring the programmable R520 with the new X chip Tech to market. Some say its yeild problems. Could it be that ATI wants to bring SLI performance to the masses in a single Card formate. Is that possiable? Some would say yes it is .
Here is another ? why haven't we heard the Xbox R500 chip is having no problems with yields. This chip is even more advanced than the R520.
You know what cell has shaken ATI and their going to come out with a show stopper GPU .
In the rumor meal I have heard Ati maybe adding the PPU chip to their R580 . Well that may have changed and we may see it on the R520. That would explain the Redesign of the card and the time required to make the changes.
One more ? wouldyou pay $1000 for the top of the line ATI card that outperforms 2 nvidia 7800 in sli. That would mean no upgrade to present PCI-E . And if 2 cards working together from ati in the cheaper segment would perform almost as good as their top of the line card and still have the coolness of 2 cards that would be cool also.
It seems to me Ati is touching all the bases.
ATi after thier succesful run at thier 3rd tape out of the R520 will be building up stock so they can do a hard launch, and many have said here it will probably be abour 2 to 3 months fo good quantities to build up.
The R500 is being made by the same company but its a totally different architecture, it sure might be more advanced but maybe because it doesnt have insanely high clock speeds and is still being built on a 3 year old core (which is not a bad thing) might be the reason?
Cell? Thats a CPU...
Do you know how big a PPU is? over 300 transistors, and Ageia have stated they are building this on the 130nm die, to keep costs down. Meaning this processor will be HUGE! I have no idea how they are gonna put this on a graphics card which will be over 300 transistors and still be quite big even for a 90nm die size.
And so far Ageia have only announced ASUS as a partner for now, and the fact that the PPU is stated by Ageia to cost up to $300.
The PCB will have to be ENORMOUS!!! probably longer than the workstation GPUs and the fact the heatsink and fan would be loud as hell and massive. And it will probably need about 200-300 watts just to run!