- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Gddr4, Stock, has very little actual benefit for bandwith and performance (think single digit percentages) but it runs at the same clocks as gddr3 with less heat which = either a cooler, more quiet card (especially since retail r600 will have vapor cooling) or the ability to overclock it to your heart's content. Its why the x1950 is the very best single GPU DX9 Solution out there.
and of course the x1800 was too little too late. but my x1900, frankly, gets me excited when we are alone.
Posted by: staticx576
Posted by: All_Levels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R600
wiki my friend, the r600 has 320 stream processors that can handle simultanious threads where the 8800 has 64 and can only do 1 at a time. r600 has gddr4 memory and comes in at 104-150 GB/s on gddr3, has higher clock and bus speed. Its got the fate of AMD on its shoulders and it will deleiver. also barcelona might be better that e600 but info is sketchy so we have to wait until summer for really good specs to come out. however for certain r600>8800. can someone tell me how to make the link go directly instead of coping it into browser.
Thats simply wonderful, and yes I knew all that. But do you have any information that proves it's faster, I do not care about specs.
lets solve this together shall we. First of all the 8800 gtx has 128 stream processors, not that it really matters since you cannot compare stream processors from Nivida to ones from ATi, Where are you getting your information that ATi has 320 of them anyways? The r600 has 64 unified shaders, you can look that up on the link you provided.
Moving on you mention memory bandwidth, you have any conclusive evidence that this alone provides any performance improvement because you neglect to remember that you cannot compare the two chipsets directly. Wait for benchmarks before you decide that the r600 is the next coming. lets hope it is better than the x1800 which was too little too late.