Original URL: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/02/amd_readies_2950_pro/
AMD readies Radeon HD 2950 Pro
2nd October 2007 09:45 GMT
AMD's ATI Radeon HD 2950 Pro graphics chip will debut on 19 November - a week after Intel's first 45nm processors (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/08/15/intel_penryn_xeon_launch/), also aimed at gamers - it has been claimed.
The DirectX 10.1, Shader Model 4.0 part - codenamed 'RV670' - is believed to support PCI Express 2.0 and HDMI with HDCP.
According to Taiwanese moles cited (http://www.digitimes.com/mobos/a20071001PD211.html) by DigiTimes, the GPU will be offered in two forms. The first is clocked at 750MHz with the 256MB and 512MB of GDDR 3 it connects to running at 1.8GHz.
A second version sports an 825MHz GPU and is intended to ship on cards with 512MB of GDDR 4 on board. The memory is clocked to 2.4GHz.
At this stage, it's unknown whether these two products - allegedly dubbed 'Revival' and 'Gladiator', respectively - refer to retail and OEM versions of the 2950 Pro, or whether Gladiator is in fact a higher specced part to ship as, say, the 2950 XT.
AMD is expected to have DirectX 10.1-compatible updates to its Radeon HD 2400 and 2600 lines (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/10/amd_readies_gpu_updates/) pipelined for an early 2008 release. The chip maker rolled out the Radeon HD 2900 Pro (http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/09/26/amd_launches_2900_pro/) last week.