AMD confirms 19 November RV670 launch - analyst

Spider too?

By Tony Smith, 29th October 2007

AMD will indeed release its 'RV670' graphics chip on 19 November - as predicted - an analyst has claimed the company told him recently.

As yet, however, RV670's go-to-market branding remains unknown - some pundits have suggested ATI Radeon HD 2950 Pro - but American Technology Research's Doug Freedman last week told investors that the part will debut on 19 November. The part is a 55nm version of the existing 'R600' GPU core.

According to an ExtremeTech report, Freedman confirmed past reports that the two versions of RV670 due to be launched, 'Gladiator' and 'Revival', run at 825MHz and 750MHz, respectively.

"The main difference between the two will be Gladiator's adoption of GDDR 4 memory and an improved memory interface - 2.4GHz vs. 1.8GHz," he wrote.

Last week, AMD tacitly confirmed RV670 would launch mid-November, but didn't then specify a date - it's official line has always been simply that the chip would arrive in Q4 2007.

At the same time, AMD is expected to announce 'Spider', a gaming platform based around a pair of RV670 GPUs, AMD's RD790 chipset and its Phenom quad-core processor family.

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Posted Tuesday 30th October 2007 01:25 GMT

Reg Sim

Hmm, like an Xbox but a PC...?

I quote from the article:

"At the same time, AMD is expected to announce 'Spider', a gaming platform based around a pair of RV670 GPUs, AMD's RD790 chipset and its Phenom quad-core processor family."

Don't get me wrong I like the idea, so long as its not over the £600 mark (or not much over it) I can see me getting one, as the main use for my PC is gaming, having a PC which games makers can aim for would make my and there life's easier.

And lets face it, if your PC is fast enough for todays high end games, its fast enough to run Vista & Office 2008 (just).

I wonder if it will encroach on Shuttles market, which is were I was looking at getting my next PC (barebones).

-Drunk Games Monkey.