A newly formed yet very questionable website called Level505 has posted benchmark results from AMD's upcoming ATI R600 graphics card, which is the new high-end flagship graphics card. Now before I will go into some results I have to say that everything is rather questionable. The results are all very pro-ATI and the article itself is invested with advertising. and the only article serving from that site is this ATI article. So it smells fishy .. Next to that we checked and the domain was registered anonymously at GoDaddy. That being said ... preliminary specifications from Level 505 of the ATI R600 are as follows: 64 4-Way SIMD Unified Shaders, 128 Shader Operations/Cycle 32 TMUs, 16 ROPs 512 bit Memory Controller, full 32 bit per chip connection GDDR3 at 900 MHz clock speed (January) GDDR4 at 1.1 GHz clock speed (March, revised edition) Total bandwidth 115 GB/s on GDDR3 Total bandwidth 140 GB/s on GDDR4 Consumer memory support 1024 MB DX10 full compatibility with draft DX10.1 vendor-specific cap removal (unified programming) 32FP [sic] internal processing Hardware support for GPU clustering (any x^2 [sic] number, not limited to Dual or Quad-GPU) Hardware DVI-HDCP support (High Definition Copy Protocol) Hardware Quad-DVI output support (Limited to workstation editions) 230W TDP PCI-SIG compliant Level505 claims AMD is expected to equip the ATI R600 with GDDR3 and GDDR4 memory with the GDDR3 endowed model launching in January. Memory clocks have been set at 900 MHz for GDDR3 models and 1.1 GHz for GDDR4 models. As recent as two weeks ago, ATI roadmaps had said this GDDR3 launch was canceled. Memory bandwidth of the ATI R600 is significantly higher than NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800-series. Total memory bandwidth varies from 115GB/s on GDDR3 equipped models to 140GB/s on GDDR4 equipped models. Other notable hardware features include hardware support for quad DVI outputs, but utilizing all four outputs are limited to FireGL workstation edition cards. There’s also integrated support for multi-GPU clustering technologies such as CrossFire too. The implementation on the ATI R600 allows any amount of ATI R600 GPUs to operate together in powers of two. Expect multi-GPU configurations with greater than two GPUs to only be available for the workstation markets though. The published results are very promising with AMD’s ATI R600 beating out NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800 GTX in most benchmarks. The performance delta varies from 8% up to 42% depending on the game benchmark. Was this article staged ?
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