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Magazine reports that November 19 is the date set for the official unveiling
of the RV670-powered Radeon HD 2950 cards that will have to battle Nvidia's
(November 12 released) G92s. Production of the new chip is on schedule and
it seems AMD is planning to start producing the initial batch of 1.5 million
RV670s in the first week of November. The RV670 is a 55nm part that features 320
Stream Processors, a 256-bit memory bus, support for DirectX 10.1 plus, a
working UVD, working Crossfire and support for PCI-Express 2.0. The cards
equipped by the RV670 have already been codenamed Gladiator and Revival and
their specs will be:
Gladiator: 825 MHz (GPU), 2400 MHz (memory), 514MB
GDDR4;
Revival: 750 MHz (GPU), 1800 MHz (memory), 256/512MB GDDR3. The
prices of the new cards are set to hover in and around the $199 and $249 marks.
It looks like magazines and web-sites dedicated to ICT industry will sport
three huge wars in next sixn months: G96 versus RV670 and G98 versus RV635 (55nm
die-shrink of 2600XT) in November, followed by real G92 versus R680 in Q1 2008.
Life can't be more fun than in 3D world. Compared to fight between AMD and
Nvidia, McLaren vs. Ferrari looks like child's game :-)
