R600 die pics

[fliguy84]

http://www.hardspell.com/news/showcont.asp?news_id=31823

 

[Arkaign]

Nice! How will this shape up against 8800 series?

 

[JAG87]

ow.

its diamond shaped instead of square inside the border. thats new...


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[Cookie Monster]

Already posted in this thread

 

[shabby]

Originally posted by: JAG87
ow.

its diamond shaped instead of square inside the border. thats new...


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Not really, the geforce fx did this also.

 

[JAG87]

Originally posted by: shabby

Originally posted by: JAG87
ow.

its diamond shaped instead of square inside the border. thats new...


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http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfis...Fnews%2Fshowcont.asp%3Fnews_id%3D31823

Not really, the geforce fx did this also.

oh, didnt know that...

kinda just erased the FX line up from my head, so even if I did know once, that information is long gone and overwritten in my brain.

 

[hardwareking]

i guess they rotated the die so as to accomodate the 512bit bus and to reduce EM noise from the PCB.
If u put the substrate the die is placed on as a square u'd notice that the die is rotated around 45 degrees.

 

[tuteja1986]

1billion transistors ;*(

 

[keeleysam]

That die is fvcking HUGE!

I don't even want to think about the cooling it'll need.

 

[Matt2]

and dont expect the card to be any shorter than 8800GTX.

 

[Praxis1452]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
That die is fvcking HUGE!

I don't even want to think about the cooling it'll need.

Nvidia die is also huge but we haven't seenit yet heh

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: Praxis1452

Originally posted by: keeleysam
That die is fvcking HUGE!

I don't even want to think about the cooling it'll need.

Nvidia die is also huge but we haven't seenit yet heh

Yes, but knowing ATI it'll run extra hot.

 

[ronnn]

Originally posted by: keeleysam

Originally posted by: Praxis1452

Originally posted by: keeleysam
That die is fvcking HUGE!

I don't even want to think about the cooling it'll need.

Nvidia die is also huge but we haven't seenit yet heh

Yes, but knowing ATI it'll run extra hot.

Can't judge new tech by a companies old tech. That would be like saying the 8800gtx has inferior default iq with a shimmer. Soon we will find out who the power pig winner is.

 

[josh6079]

That would be like saying the 8800gtx has inferior default iq...

Actually, some would say that the 8800GTX has an inferior default iq, but not with a shimmer. The xS modes are still absent from any 8800 driver and until they return the 8800GTX has a lesser quality AA than the 7 series.

 

[imported_Cript]

mmm slanty

 

[Conky]

I just hope it keeps up.

Things start to suck and get expensive when one company takes too much of a lead.

 

[Captante]

LOL ... from the thread title I was expecting an Nvidia fanboy-rant here! 😛

 

[hardwareking]

keep in mind that die is supposed to be on the 80nm process.I guess ATI was wise to move to 80nm.I can only imagine how much heat and power that thing would have consumed if it were on 90nm.
I bet it packs a whole more transistors than the G80.(in keeping with ATI's tradition of adding transistors to increase performance)

 

[Mark R]

Wow. That's a lot of balls

I wouldn't like to try and design a PCB for that thing.

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: hardwareking
keep in mind that die is supposed to be on the 80nm process.I guess ATI was wise to move to 80nm.I can only imagine how much heat and power that thing would have consumed if it were on 90nm.
I bet it packs a whole more transistors than the G80.(in keeping with ATI's tradition of adding transistors to increase performance)

I don't even want to imagine how bad the yields will be on it though.

It'll be damn expensive.

 

[josh6079]

It'll be damn expensive.

Not forever. 😉

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: josh6079

It'll be DAAMIT expensive.

Not forever. 😉

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