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AMD R600 Revealed?

by Navin Maini on 3 March 2007, 12:44

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David Berlind of ZDNET, has published some images he obtained during an AMD press conference and which apparently depict a prototype graphics card powered by the upcoming R600 GPU.

The five images in question show off the card from different angles and gives a good perspective of not only the sheer size that the high end SKU's may boast, but also the amount of heat they would be dissipating, judging by the size of the stock cooling solution.

Berlind mentions in his blog, that he obtained permission to publish the images, which were obtained during the AMD event in San Francisco, under the condition that he referred to the unit depicted as a prototype.

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Posted by chuckskull - Sat 03 Mar 2007 12:56
I dont think the retail card will be that big, thats an OEM one using the elongated fitting sytem to add a fan on the end. If you actually look at the PCB it looks about 8800GTS sized to me.
Posted by Sprite - Sat 03 Mar 2007 13:39
Yeah you can remove the fan on the back. Looks like a nice card, might upgrade to it when it's been out for a few weeks and the prices have dropped.
Posted by Clunk - Sat 03 Mar 2007 20:03
Yep, looks like an X1900XT with a big plastic cowelling on.
Posted by merlin2001 - Tue 06 Mar 2007 18:05
still think this is really a case of too little, to late - even if R600 destroys the 8800 in every b/mark and test, nvidia have not been standing still and I am sure they will be able to push more product into the market to counter AMD/ATI. I wonder if the merger had any adverse impact on the dev. cycle of the R600? pretty normal for their to be intergration issues in mergers after all….
Posted by dangel - Tue 06 Mar 2007 18:24
I'm still waiting to see what happens - i've no pressing need to upgrade my video card yet and so there's no harm in waiting and seeing where the market goes. Worst case is the R600 makes the 8800 cheaper isn't it? The again if the R600 is faster and the drivers are better.. Who knows.

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