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R8x0 next gen ATI is again a dual chip

by on25 June 2008


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No surprise


Two graphics Vice Presidents at AMD, Matt Skynner, the Vice President of Graphics Marketing, and John Byrne the Vice President of Worldwide GPU Sales, have confirmed to Fudzilla that the next generation high-end graphics card will again be dual chip.


We're not talking about R700, as this card is almost at our door step, we are talking about the R8x0 card that should show up at some point next year.

ATI has decided that performance per watt is very important and it wants to continue to make very fast mainstream / performance chips and use two of them for the high-end card. This is the way the company wants to go, as this makes more financial sense.

At this time we don’t know many details and we can only suspect that R800 is the current codename, but at least we know the direction where ATI wants to go. Nvidia at the same time still believes big bulky chips are the answer to the highest performance part question.

Last modified on 25 June 2008
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