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ATI's R580+ chip prepares for GDDR4 memory |
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Written by Mavke
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Monday, 22 May 2006 |
If all goes as planned, ATI might steal a march on arch-rival NVIDIA, and produce the leading high-end chip by the end of this summer. We say might as NVIDIA might have its G80 ready before then. In which case it'll be a whole different soupe de poisson. ATI's R580+ uses the same 90 nanometre marchitecture as the cutrrent generation, but it will be modified to accommodate GDDR4. According to ATI, the R520, Radeon X1K generation can also support GDDR4 but the company will have to tweak a thing or two to make it possible. We know that also NVIDIA is going for the GDDR4 memory chips for their next upcoming update with the G80 chip. So we look forward to who will be the first.
 ATI's R580+ chip prepares for GDDR4 memory
We still don't know enough about the upcoming G80 but it looks to us that it should kick the current R580's butt and possibly even R580+'s, but we know that ATI plans to fight the new chip with its upcoming R600 monster. We still don't know the clock speeds for the new R580+ card, it's just too early for that. Give it a month or two. Both ATI and NVIDIA are working hard for their next generation accelerator chips. Only time will tell who will have made the biggest progress and development, and will be the king of the hill at the end of the year. Of course at the new hardware should be Vista compliant.
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