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PtP
16-02-2005, 12:33 PM
Could this be the Specification for ATI's upcoming R520 VPU?



ATI R520...Due out in May 05
24 "Pipelines"
32 Texture Units
96 Arithmetic Logic Units (ALU)
192 Shader Operations per Cycle
700MHz Core
134.4 Billion Shader Operations per Second (at 700MHz)
256-bit 512MB 1.8GHz GDDR3 Memory
57.6 GB/sec Bandwidth (at 1.8GHz)
300-350 Million Transistors
90nm Manufacturing
Shader Model 3.0
ATI HyperMemory
ATI Multi Rendering Technology (SLI)
Launch: Q2 2005
Performance: Over 3x Radeon X800 XT !!! (for single R520)

Source: XtremeSystems (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52851)

PtP
16-02-2005, 12:34 PM
Bloody hell, how quick can these things get? they will be more powerfull than our cpu's shortly :)

Privateer
16-02-2005, 11:48 PM
It is a pity we prob won't see an actual board in stores till 12 months after it has been "officaly released" anway :D

I wonder if either nvida or ati will go down the same road as intel and amd, just build duel core GPU's?

minic00kie
17-02-2005, 07:30 PM
mewants :drool: :drool: