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Abdul Raauf
Now that ATI’s HD 4870 is here, the situation seems to be getting nasty for NVIDIA. ATI’s got cheap and pretty fast cards, while NVIDIA has to keep up by lowering prices for some of the older cards. Additionally, the green guys have to cope with the upcoming R700 (4870X2) card from ATI. I guess you already heard rumors regarding the superiority of ATI’s flagship card over NVIDIA’s GTX 280, but now everything just got official.
Fudzilla had the chance to talk a bit with Vice President of ATI's graphics marketing, Matt Skynner and Vice President of GPU sales John Byrne who were in the position to confirm that ATI is very confident that its upcoming dual chip R700 will beat Geforce 280 GTX performance.
ATI has done some internal research and it turns out that their dual RV770 card will end up faster than the fastest Geforce GTX 280 card. I don’t know if ATI is showing too much self confidence here, but at least they are finally back on track. NVIDIA is definitely going to have some tough times, but there’s hope for the greenies: the GTX 200 family could be getting the GDDR5 upgrade pretty soon and this might even things.
Skynner and Byrne have also confirmed that the R700 is ready to enter the mass production phase, and the only thing that made ATI schedule its release for August was the driver development. Apparently, ATI has learned from past mistakes. Additionally, the two officials were able to provide some info on ATI’s next gen GPUs. The high end R800 will once again be dual chip, and we might see some quad-chip architectures in a couple of years.
Fudzilla further reports that ATI has decided that performance per watt is very important and it wants to continue to make a very fast mainstream / performance chips and use two of them for the high end card. This is the way where the company wants to go as this makes more financial sense.
Fudzilla had the chance to talk a bit with Vice President of ATI's graphics marketing, Matt Skynner and Vice President of GPU sales John Byrne who were in the position to confirm that ATI is very confident that its upcoming dual chip R700 will beat Geforce 280 GTX performance.
ATI has done some internal research and it turns out that their dual RV770 card will end up faster than the fastest Geforce GTX 280 card. I don’t know if ATI is showing too much self confidence here, but at least they are finally back on track. NVIDIA is definitely going to have some tough times, but there’s hope for the greenies: the GTX 200 family could be getting the GDDR5 upgrade pretty soon and this might even things.
Skynner and Byrne have also confirmed that the R700 is ready to enter the mass production phase, and the only thing that made ATI schedule its release for August was the driver development. Apparently, ATI has learned from past mistakes. Additionally, the two officials were able to provide some info on ATI’s next gen GPUs. The high end R800 will once again be dual chip, and we might see some quad-chip architectures in a couple of years.
Fudzilla further reports that ATI has decided that performance per watt is very important and it wants to continue to make a very fast mainstream / performance chips and use two of them for the high end card. This is the way where the company wants to go as this makes more financial sense.
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