Newly created site Level 505 has leaked benchmarks and specifications of AMDs upcoming ATI R600 graphics processor. The upcoming graphics processor is expected to launch in January 2007 with an expected revision arriving in March 2007. These early specifications and launch dates line up with what DailyTech has already published and are present on ATI internal roadmaps as of workweek 49.
Preliminary specifications of the ATI R600 are as follows:
1: 64 4-Way SIMD Unified Shaders, 128 Shader Operations/Cycle
2: 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs
3: 512 bit Memory Controller, full 32 bit per chip connection
4: GDDR3 at 900 MHz clock speed (January)
5: GDDR4 at 1.1 GHz clock speed (March, revised edition)
6: Total bandwidth 115 GB/s on GDDR3
7: Total bandwidth 140 GB/s on GDDR4
8: Consumer memory support 1024 MB
9: DX10 full compatibility with draft DX10.1 vendor-specific cap removal (unified programming)
10: 32FP [sic"> internal processing
11: Hardware support for GPU clustering (any x^2 [sic"> number, not limited to Dual or Quad-GPU)
12: Hardware DVI-HDCP support (High Definition Copy Protocol)
13: Hardware Quad-DVI output support (Limited to workstation editions)
14: 230W TDP PCI-SIG compliant
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