During today's analyst day in Sunnyvale
AMD demonstrated a Phenom X4 system running at 3.0GHz (with just a regular
stock heatsink and fan) on their upcoming RD790 chipset. Paired alongside this
platform were three Radeon HD 2900 XT cards running in CrossFire mode (although
it appears the third card was not connected).
During today's briefing AMD confirmed that RD790 will support PCIe 2.0 as
well as support up to four graphics cards in CrossFire mode. AMD also dropped a
few hints on what gamers can expect next year. On the CPU side, we'll see the
first 45-nm CPUs from AMD shipping with up to 6MB of L3 cache, while 2008 will
also see the debut of AMD's R7xx graphics family. R7xx will be built on 55-nm
process technology.
Unfortunately RD790 won't arrive until this fall while the first Phenom CPUs are slated to be released in Q4'07, so we'll have to wait a few more months before we can make this happen.
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