HD2900Pro coming soon? FireGL V7600 may be preview.

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

I was just looking over the FireGL site (looking at the laptop equivalent of the HD2600 the FireGLC5600) and noticed a new 320 SPU / 256bit part the FireGL V7600.

http://ati.amd.com/products/workstation/fireglmatrix.html#pcie

IMO, that's the new HD2900Pro.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

ATi actually call it the R600PRO in the FireGL's prduct Matrix;

So this may be the card everyone was hoping for performance wise; but I think it's gong to require alot more juice than the GF8600/HD2600, and it's going to be expensive for ATi per chip, just like the R9500Pro was, and just like the GF8800GTS-320 is for nV.

 

[EXT64]

Is it supposed to be 65nm?

 

[bfellow]

So who's forking several grand for the "2900 PRO"

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

Is it supposed to be 65nm?

Probably not. Although stanger things could happen, but the current rumour is that it's just crippled regular R600s. Usually if they were to shrink something they'd give it a new #, so I think it's just crippled 80nm R600s.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

So who's forking several grand for the "2900 PRO"

Same type of person forking over more than a grand for the Quadro 3000 aka the FX5900.

And the HD2900Pro based V7600 is cheaper than the Quadro 3000, it's not 'several grand' as you say it's just under a grand @ $999 US, with that price there above £499 being in Europe where they pay more.

All workstation cards are ridiculously expensive compared to their gaming counterparts, but they come with much higher level of support than gaming cards, and it's the quality control and support that professionals pay for.

 

[EXT64]

Too bad, if ATI could make a good 65nm card with low power consumption, they would fill a hole in the current GPU lineup from ATI and nVidia. And really, how hard is it to shrink the chip :lol:

 

[Hatman]

Obviously quite hard since they havent done it! duh!

Actually I heard mainly for this chip they are using "faulty" 2900xt chips that cant be as good as 2900xts but good enough for 2900pro's. But still if it uses 320pixel pipelines its going to cost quite a bit and take a lot of power. Aslong as they get it to under 150watts so only 1 pci-e cable is needed I think thats good enough.