RV620 And RV635 To Be Radeon 3x00

ATI will make quite a smart move that will boost sales of its entry level and mid range chips. Since it launched Radeon 38x0 series it slowed down the sales of 2600 and 2400 cards but it has a solution for it.

As people usually buy the cards with higher numbers RV635 will be renamed to Radeon 3x50 probably 3650 while the RV620 the 55 nm version of RV615 will be known as Radeon 3x50, most likely Radeon 3450.

These numbers look much better in the eyes of consumers and the new designation will probably help boost the sales of these chips. Smart but sneaky, what else can we say and it has been rumored that both RV620 and RV635 will get full DirectX 10.1 support and naturally they will consume less power and dissipate less heat due to the 55nm design.

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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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