Dual card in early 2008
Despites all kinds of rumours around we can confirm that ATI wont br releasing any Rx6xx chips this year. The company will try to finish RV670 this year but as we said several times this chip is going to show its face in early 2008.
ATI's only hope is to put two RV670 cards together and such a dual chip card should be able to take the performance crown out of Nvidia's G80 Ultra. The biggest trouble is that at the time RV670 comes to reality Nvidia is suppose to have the next generation card ready that someone called G92.
Well, ATI don't have any other choice as its real next generation R700 comes in Q2 2007 and this is the best case scenario that ATI usually fail to make in its reality.
The beauty of half node process such as 80 or currently most interesting 55 nanometre process is that it is not that hard to convert the original chip and prepare it for the smaller so called half node process.
This is exactly what will happen to RV670. Our sources confirmed that the original design of the chip was suppose to end up at 65 nanometre but the final version of the chip will be out as a 55 nanometre. The chip will draw less power and will be physically smaller.
It is much easier to put two 55 nanometre chip than two 65 as the card will need less power and that is the plan.
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