The chip maker is slated to introduce a new single-chip graphics card — the ATI Radeon HD 4850 — based on the new chip on June 25. Then, in August, AMD is expected to release a graphics card, code-named R700, that will include two of the new chips.
"We're [at] a turning point in the way we design our graphics chips," said Matt Skinner, a spokesman for AMD. "As they get bigger and bigger, they use more power, and we're coming up on power constraints as well as how many transistors you can fit on a certain dye size.
Really, such a Duh! moment.
I read this and thought, why the hell didn't they do this before? We have SLI cards and mobo's why not slap two or even four chips on a card to begin with, it's quite a simple solution.
However, I have to say given ATI's long and proud history of having the worst drivers in the game will still take me back to Nvidia for a while to come.
"Really, such a Duh! moment."
Well, for computer geeks it is anyway....the rest of us? Uh - not so much so.:-)
Posted by: mrs muddy at June 16, 2008 10:20 PM