8800GTS or wait for R600?

[Jenox]

What are you talking about? The R600 has 64 Unified shaders, but it can do 128 shader operations per cycle. As for that stuff about the 8900 GTX, nothing has even been released about it, so I don't know where you're getting that from. Some proof would be nice.

It's gonna be such a beast. 1GB of GDDR4 with a 153.6 GB/s memory bandwidth. A full 512-bit Ring Bus for the memory. God I love ATI/AMD's architecture choices.

I think recently it was rumored that the first versions of the R600 beat the 8800 GTX by 5% or so and it was clocked slower too. Not sure of the reliability of that, but it certainly gives you a head up of the R600's power.

Were any price figures on the R600 released?

 

[lhuser]

Don't expect it to be like the 8800GTX. I'd say around 1k-3k.

 

[alvino]

My guess? $500-$700. No official price has been announced by ATI/AMD yet, but that's my guess. Don't be suprised if it's around that.

 

[ownage]

$600 for the XTX. Retail is 240W, rumored to use dual 6 pin or one 6 pin one 8 pin, 9" long. OEM will be 270W and 12" long. There will also be a XT and XL, both using 512MB of GDDR3.

 

[Fisher]

how long do you think until they give us a set date for the release, or have they already? i know its kinda around the end of march...

 

[LambOfGod]

$600 for the XTX. Retail is 240W, rumored to use dual 6 pin or one 6 pin one 8 pin, 9" long. OEM will be 270W and 12" long. There will also be a XT and XL, both using 512MB of GDDR3.

so those will use GDDR3 while the XTX uses Gddr4?

is the core going to be the R600 on all of them?

or will it be like R620 ect...

 

[Jenox]

Hopefully they'll have a lower end product within the $200 - $300 mark.