VR-Zone: R680 To Score 20K In 3DMark06

Here is the article: http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/R6 [...] /5325.html

I surely hope this will be coming out soon and is as good as it sounds. Then we can have competition like we did with the nvidia 7 series and (not sure what to call the ati family 1900xtx etc..)

'crosses fingers for November release so i can play Crysis'

i wanna see how the perform in game...not 3dmark.

But the news does look good for AMD/ATI

Wow... 20000 I wonder if they will allow crossfiring 2 of these, i think they will just to show off but i wonder if it will be worth it by then, crysis will be the tell tale i think.

Why is everybody talking lately about free 4xaa? Where did you hear that?

The bullet points said that crossfire will be possible. Imagine the bungholio marks you could get with two of those

After the HD 2900XT and K10 debacle, I'll have to see it to believe anything from AMD/ATI. Also, where's the "free 4xAA" coming from? There have been no announcements eDRAM would be integrated into R680, and even then there are limits based on resolution etc.

Especially if they're 12"! Thats gotta count for something!

-mcg

I see the last hype from ATI would have been true only if AMD didn't buy them out. Right after AMD bought ATI, they went all out trying to get into the integrated graphics arena and basically made ATI kinda throw the tru R600 out the door.

Or at least thats what I think. But with this and AMDs recent history of hyping stuff I can't believe it. I love ATI in graphics since I have always had a great experience but since AMD owns ATI I am sure its just hype for now.

But if AMD was smart they wouldn't be lagging in the graphics arena especially since Intel has plans to expand to discrete graphics cards in 2008/2009. And with the current roll of NVidia I am sure they wont be a push over. I guess they got sick of losing for 3 generations of cards. 9700/5900, 9800/6800 and the last one x1900/7900.

Lets just hope AMD pulls this one off.

Good point. But they did take a longer than expected time to recover, not good for profit to stay disorganised for too long.

And btw, the 2900XT does blow the 8800GTS away, in stalker

Which is 100% awesome. And I read that huge improvemtns thread also, lots a near-flaming there, but good info too, keeps your hopes up that AMD can spring back

But stalker, must be the only game I've seen that really LOVES more VRAM, the 640mb GTS gets like 20-25fps more than the 320mb on modest resolutions.

"4xAA is a compulsory standard to support in 10.1"
eh it is from the inquirer tho
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inqu [...] 01-upgrade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX#DirectX_10.1 and here they probably got it from the inquirer too.
then again this prolly just means that all dx10.1 games use 4xaa even on lowest settings.
edit:
rock solid proof from ms dx10.1 press release thing. http://www.extremetech.com/article [...] X1K0000532

If the specs hold true ... which I think they will ... the answer is yes to all your hopes .... and run alot cooler and directx 10.1 !!!! The ATI division was completely revamped by AMD and is just now getting it together .... looks like we will reap alot of benefits after all if we waited on at least the second generation of cards ! I really can't see why anyone with any years of experience would have paid $800.00 - $900.00 for a first gen video card or one or a pair that had to be dramatically overclocked because of lousey components to perform descent !!!! -----

Here's the problem...


They don't make 2Kw Power Supplies.

R680 will be a sweet card, pretty much what R600 was supposed to be x 2. IMO there is no question it will blow Ultra out of the water in any game (excluding possible temporary drivers issues for both manufacturers).

That said, IMHO nVidia will have faster flagship arround R680 release. Why? It had 6+ months of bonus time for the next core while ATI was struggling to release 2900XT, not to speak of merger havoc. It can spend more resources on R&D than AMD for graphics. It also doesnt have reputation sleeping on laurels, its more like fast moving predator (remember how 3DFx was eaten alive?). Exception was R9700, which was amazingly good at the time, dont think AMD can pull this off atm.

Another reason why nVidia probably will have faster flagship is... AMDs current planning. AMD doesnt go for the fastest at any cost, it goes for the best self cost/performance ratio. Thats why majority 2900XT had GDDR3 instead of faster GDDR4, and it wouldnt suprise me R680 would be the same.

AMD plan (IMO) is to get as much mass market as possible, and not the highest performing parts, unless it would be possible without high additional cost.

Also AMD prices products a bit cheaper than concurents for the same performance, so we can expect R680 would be cheaper than whatever nVidia is cooking for more than a year now, which is good for us.

It's just ad hype, rumors, and wishful thinking until we see benchmarks.

200W x 4 = 800W. Plus you have to power fans, the CPU, memory, hard drive/s, and whatever else you have in your case. People are using 1Kw PSUs with just ONE 8800GTX or HD2900XT. If you add THREE more to the equation, yeah, you're gonna be needing 2Kw's of power AT LEAST. A die shrink isn't going to do much when ou've got four of them sumbitches in there. haha.

But man...could you imagine the Bunghuliomarks with four of those things? Holy smokes...(add in a 4x4 Phenom platform and you've got Bunghuliomark scores unheard of. )

for once someone who makes sense.

Iv seen an AcBell 300w take on a 7800GTX 512 without issues, same as a 8800GTS 640mb with an AcBell 400, and a generic 400w with a 8600GTS.

I've heard that these company's make their employees sign massive amounts of paperwork when they are hired that solely specify that they cannot release any information from within the company until a certain time period (even after they quit) and if they do, they can get in deep **** (lawsuits). Although i don't know if it is true, it would definitely make sense.

When AMD/ATI says, "launched @ second half of 2006 or Q3 of 2007", they mean "end of December 2006 or end of September 2007 with token quantities available". Besides, delays of 3 or 6 months are not uncommon.