ATI's R700 or NVIDIA's G100, Who Will Win The Battle ?

R680, or two RV670 on the same PCB, should come out in late January, while the real next generation high end is scheduled for Q2 2008.

There aren't any delays, at least not that we know of and this new chip is a big hope of ATI. The company has been trying to dethrone Nvidia for years and it hopes that R700 can be the next R300. This might happen, but Nvidia managed to be one step ahead of ATI for years.

ATI managed to get back in the game in 2007, where it took back significant market share from Nvidia, mainly due to better prices, but it needs faster high end products to compete Nvidia even better.

Nvidia would be in real trouble if R700 managed to beat G100 but usually Nvidia knows what it's doing.

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AMD RV620, RV635 And R680 To Be Available Next Month

AMD announced its RV620, RV635 and R680 will all be available in January 2008.

Representatives from AMD would not confirm that the R680 is essentially two RV670 GPU cores on the same board, though the company did confirm that each core has the same specifications of an RV670 processor.


The RV670 graphics core, announced last November with the Phenom processor, is the first 55nm desktop graphics adaptor. AMD does not target this card as a high-end adaptor, though reviewers were quick to herald the RV670 as AMD's best product of 2007.

The company also made quick mention of the RV620 and RV635 GPU cores. These cores are nearly identical to the previous RV610 and RV630 processors, but will be produced on the 55nm node instead.

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