theInq: RV610 and RV630 will be 65nm

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WE WERE caught totally off guard with the news that ATI's RV630 and RV610 are actually 65 nanometre parts. Now it makes sense why they are so late.
DAAMIT plans an April production of its 65 nanometre parts. Nvidia's G84 and G86 mainstream and low-end chips are still at 80 nanometre which means they get hotter and are more expensive to make. With good yields, DAAMIT has a good chance to come storming back to the desktop and mobile arenas. The chips should perform about the same as Nvidia's but will take less power and be cheaper to produce.

The cards support HDDVD playback, second generation Unified Shader, DirectX 10, integrated HDMI audio, HDCP over Dual Link, PCIe second generation speeds and open multi GPU chipset marchitecture.

DAAMIT still doesn?t like to talk about the clock speed of these chips but we know that at 65 nanometre you can clock faster than 750MHz. µ


http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37611


Here it to hoping that DAAMIT comes back swigning with BOTH fists!
 

A554SS1N

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Hmm, as it's so long after it's good they decided to go 65nm with their performance-leading products, but still a shame the lower end products aren't 65nm - although it probably won't be long before they are.
 

ShadowOfMyself

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Originally posted by: A554SS1N
Hmm, as it's so long after it's good they decided to go 65nm with their performance-leading products, but still a shame the lower end products aren't 65nm - although it probably won't be long before they are.

You got it wrong... The lower end are the ones with 65 nm, higher end = 80 nm
 

40sTheme

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I see the unoverclocked 1GHz GPU core coming in the next few years. Anyone with me?