engadget.com — "According to TweakTown, the flagship edition -- dubbed the X2900XTX and codenamed Dragons Head 2 -- will sport a 9.5-inch configuration, 1GB of GDDR4 memory, dual DVI, video in / out, and require a baffling 240-watts of energy delivered through dual onboard power connectors."
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Closed AccountMar 16, 2007
Yay!
Closed AccountMar 17, 2007
s**t. Just bought an 8800 card. Didnt know the R600 was gonna be this uber...
sbilikMar 17, 2007
Easier said than done. The chips already use leading edge foundries with nanometer widths. All of the major subblocks of the GPUs have clock gating circuitry to cut their clocks when they're idle. But when you're doing that many simultaneous calcs of integer and floating point nature in an SIMD fashion, it requires a lot of switching transistors. There are still a few tricks that could be done, but trickier power reduction techniques get integrated once a "bleeding edge" flagship chip has had some time to be further worked on. The R600 is late enough as it is, with trying to accommodate Vista and DX10. Getting to < 200 watts comes later...
Closed AccountMar 17, 2007
woah.
fuzzynyankoMar 17, 2007
Hopefully it'll come out in May and inspire both companies to make shorter cards. My mid tower case has enough problems with the 7900GS.
wooteryMar 17, 2007
I noticed "watts of energy".It's 'power', nubs./annoying nitpicking
jstoneMar 17, 2007
"nobody will ever need more than 640K of RAM"Remember that statement? Software is going to keep increasing in complexity, and will need more and more processing power and memory (this applies to graphics, too.) If you freeze a certain component at a certain level because "Nobody could ever use more than that," you cause all kinds of problems.
cysseroMar 19, 2007
You seldom run your PC at the power supplies maximum rating. With a 500W PSU, you're probably using closer to 220W. You'd be surprised how little power your parts actually use. From memory I think C2D CPUs are using close to 65W. With the CPU and GPU being the two most power hungry devices in a computer, you're a far cry away from utilising a consistent 500W.
Closed AccountMar 23, 2007
ATI is crap
bugmenot2May 11, 2007
Yes.
divaboxMay 16, 2007
Wonderful! Such things make me a bit crazy