CPU & GPU News & Rumors

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Mike's Hardware


nVidia nForce3 Pro 250 is expected to be released in the Fall (September?). In addition to the featureset of nForce3 Pro 150, nForce3 Pro 250 will feature Gigabit Ethernet support, 2xUATA133 channels and 4xSATA150 channels.

AMD Athlon 64 (Paris), the small cache version of Clawhammer, is expected to be released in Q3 (September?).

ATI R360 (Radeon 9800XT?) is expected to be released in September. The R360 is expected to be heavily based around the R350 (Radeon 9800) core, but with optimisations to allow higher clock speeds (425Mhz core & 700Mhz memory?).


AMD Next Gen Opteron is expected to be released in H2 2003. This processor is expected to be the first to be manufactured on AMD's 0.09 micron process.

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If true this last Item is HUGE! (I suspect H2 2004 however)

a2jfreak

Any idea when ATI will switch to a 130-nanometer process?

What's the default core/mem on the 9800 Pro? What about the 9700 Pro?

Thrax

9700 Pro is 325.

Al_Capown

9800 pro is 380 i believe.

SimGuy

9800 Pro: 380/340.
9800 Non-Pro: 325/290.

ATI may switch to a 0.13 micron process by the R4XX series of cards, but I wouldn't hold my breath on seeing it on the first generation of VPU's.

Geeky1

9700 Pro:
325 core/310 memory

9800 Pro:
380 core/340 memory

SimGuy

Rumour has it that the ATI Radeon 9800XT is to be released the same day that AquaMark 3, the next generation DirectX 9.0 benchmark is to be released; September 15th.

You can also add to that list of releases the prospects of a new Detonator series of drivers: The Detonator 50's.