AMD/ATI to expand GPU Lineup in 2009 with Three New Cores  

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Posted by admin — May 27th, 2009, 8:20 AM



ati premium graphics logo 300x278 AMD/ATI to expand GPU Lineup in 2009 with Three New Cores

Competition has always been feirce between nVidia and ATI, and this past year, despite the economic downturn, has been no exception. ATI released their Radeon R700 (HD4000) series video cards nearly a year ago in June 2008, and  a few months ago, added a new flagship single GPU card, the Radeon HD4890. More recently detailss surfaced about nVidia’s plans to launch the G300 lineup, keeping the rivalry alive.


 Now ATI is getting ready to wipe the slate and start from square, with rumours that the next generation graphics cards, based off the 40nm acrchitechture and DirectX11 compliant, will be released within the current year (2009), giving consumersthe perfect excuse to upgrade for the holidays.


Leaked details from Hardware-Infos, hint at some of the specs and the what the lineup may entail. The RV810 is suggested as the base model, with an R800 (possible dual RV870) rounding out the top end. The inbetween spots filled with the single RV870 powerhouse, and the mainstream RV840. The reports suggest that the top end RV870 chip may feature 1200 stream processors – the current HD4890 (RV790) features only 800 -  and 143BG/s of bandwidth. Following ATI’s new naming scheme, the cards will most likely be branded with familiar labels such as the HD5870X2, HD5870 and HD5850 – which could be hitting store shelves ase early as summer!

 

 


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  • FiXT

    At least they come out with relatively all new technology and product lineups – And don’t just rehash the old cards with a few upgrades ;)

  • cwestwell

    I gotta say I love this new site layout and news section…..now I can finally stop going to toms and inquirer….wooo

    Anyway this is also good news….go next gen GPU wars this round should be interesting the playing field is a lot more level for this next round now that AMD produced such a good line with the 4800 series it will be expected they keep up with it and of course Nvidia will continue to due what it does best make awesome huge powerful GPU’s I guess the real test is to see if AMD has truly re-made itself and can find the same kind of success with this next release and if Nvidia can recover from some it its downs and setbacks and get to the starting line with a new 40nm process and DX11.