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The Radeon R700 is the engineering codename for a Graphics Processing Unit in development by AMD, to be sold under the ATI brand.
[edit] Existence
The Radeon R700 has been reported to exist by the tech tabloid The Inquirer[1], and it is the successor of the R600 GPU series.
[edit] Rumoured Design Features
- A cluster of smaller GPUs will be replacing the current large single GPU design used in current high-end graphics cards. [1]
- The cluster of GPUs will be comprising of modular designed units and connected through an interconnect, such as HyperTransport or a FSB. [1]
- More modular, more scalable than previous GPUs. [1]
- Although less concrete, ATI's major competitor, NVIDIA's G90 GPU, may also take the same modular and clustering of smaller GPUs route. [1]
[edit] Availability
- ATI was reported to have a deadline for Radeon R700, and was slated for ther first quarter (Q1) of 2008 release [2].
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e Big GPUs are set to die
- ^ FudZilla report
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