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ATI's R600 to be the biggest graphics chip ever |
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Written by Mavke
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Monday, 22 May 2006 |
The Inquirer learned that ATI's upcoming R600, its next generation high-end chip, might end up as the biggest graphics chip of all time. It won't be cold either. Indeed, it might be the hottest chip ever, but we were informed that it might be the fastest chip as well. Even though many have assumed the chip will be the same as the one ATI supplies for the Xbox 360, it won't be. It will share a similar design but won't have the integrated memory on die. It might have as many as sixty four shader units that would easily make it much more powerful than the Xbox 360 graphics. The rumors on the R600 will start to get bigger as we go along, time will tell the final details of this new chip.
 ATI's R600 to be the biggest graphics chip ever
There may be a lot of mights, but there can be no doubt that it will end up faster than the current generation of consoles. And, don't forget that it can, and will, support the upcoming GDDR4 memory format. At current schedules, the launch date is expected towards the end of the year. A long wait for those looking forward to the next generation accelerator by ATI, but the same counts for NVIDIA with the upcoming G80 chip. So you can once again expect a race against time between the two players on this exciting market. Stay tuned for more details as we go along.
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