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Abdul Raauf
These days are so dense in interesting news, that best way to deliver is pack'em and give them to you, as many as possible. Obviously, I won't do such a think without any logic, so here's what I have today for you - Alienware just released a quad-graphics gaming system thank's to latest Catalyst drivers package, AMD revealed some of its plans for the future, while Intel has shown its interest to be more active in the graphics market from now on. Pretty good for tonight's news package, don't you think?
First, let's take Alienware's ALX CrossFireX desktop - 2X ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2, each with 1GB GDDR3, 45nm quad-core Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor overclocked to 4.0GHz and no less than 4GB of DDR3-1333 SDRAM, all on an Intel X38 mainboard. The rest of the configuration can be imagined, and the base price goes a bit over $6000...
Next, we have AMD's official statements made during the introduction of the upcoming 45nm processors - by this month's end, the Perseus platform, a competitor to Intel's vPro, should arrive. This one will include dual- to quad-core processors, integrated 780-based graphics and, optionally, graphics cards to work in Hybrid Graphics mode.
Once the Perseus platform arrives, it should be followed shortly by a few quad-core Phenoms, as well as triple-cores. With frequencies around 2.2GHz, the new processors will have 95W TDP, which seems a bit too much, when compared to Intel's current CPUs(anyway, let's remember that Intel has made the step into the 45nm realm already!).
In April and May, AMD's gonna launch the Cartwhell platform for the mainstream market, followed by some more Phenom processors, and concluding with the mobile Puma platform, in June. Pretty busy spring for AMD, I must say!
Last one on today's list is Intel - they have the advantage now, and it seems they want to use it. Where? In the area of the market they only tried almost a decade ago, with their i740 AGP card, but 3dfx, ATI, Matrox and NVIDIA's cards of the time made them leave the discrete graphics market alone. Now, there's only ATI and NVIDIA to be afraid of...but Intel's situation is completely different.
The very short story about Intel is this - they promised a discrete graphics chip by the end of the year, as well as new integrated graphics to match AMD's 780, in the coming months. Will they do it, or not? Well, that's what remains to be seen, as usual.
First, let's take Alienware's ALX CrossFireX desktop - 2X ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2, each with 1GB GDDR3, 45nm quad-core Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 processor overclocked to 4.0GHz and no less than 4GB of DDR3-1333 SDRAM, all on an Intel X38 mainboard. The rest of the configuration can be imagined, and the base price goes a bit over $6000...
Next, we have AMD's official statements made during the introduction of the upcoming 45nm processors - by this month's end, the Perseus platform, a competitor to Intel's vPro, should arrive. This one will include dual- to quad-core processors, integrated 780-based graphics and, optionally, graphics cards to work in Hybrid Graphics mode.
Once the Perseus platform arrives, it should be followed shortly by a few quad-core Phenoms, as well as triple-cores. With frequencies around 2.2GHz, the new processors will have 95W TDP, which seems a bit too much, when compared to Intel's current CPUs(anyway, let's remember that Intel has made the step into the 45nm realm already!).
In April and May, AMD's gonna launch the Cartwhell platform for the mainstream market, followed by some more Phenom processors, and concluding with the mobile Puma platform, in June. Pretty busy spring for AMD, I must say!
Last one on today's list is Intel - they have the advantage now, and it seems they want to use it. Where? In the area of the market they only tried almost a decade ago, with their i740 AGP card, but 3dfx, ATI, Matrox and NVIDIA's cards of the time made them leave the discrete graphics market alone. Now, there's only ATI and NVIDIA to be afraid of...but Intel's situation is completely different.
The very short story about Intel is this - they promised a discrete graphics chip by the end of the year, as well as new integrated graphics to match AMD's 780, in the coming months. Will they do it, or not? Well, that's what remains to be seen, as usual.
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