Although AMD does not officially announced the release, this card Radeon 2900 Pro HD can already be purchased in European stores. The first design based on the processor, whose existence was hitherto shrouded in conspiracy of silence, comes from GeCube. In an online directory Geizhals.at you can find several shops – both traditional and online – offering GeCube GC-HD2900PRO-VIE3.

The Charter is built based processor R630 have 320 units cieniującymi and have 512 MB of GDDR3 memory. Its price ranges from 225-250 euros. In America, it will probably cost barely 225-250 dollars, but for now it is not us nothing but reconciled with the fact that Americans have much lower VAT (7-10%) and much weaker currency, which makes an impression as if hardware dealt with them as dirt-cheap. Suffice to say that in Croatia such a GeForce 8800 Ultra card costs as much as the Atlantic for two.

The new card has a 256-bit memory bus – about half narrower than the models based on the R600. It is noted that it has been for some time been operating in a market in the form of ATI FireGL V7600. We know also that R600 chip with 256-bit memory controller has been identified as R630.
CPU speed was limited to 600 MHz memory spowolniono but only by 26 MHz (or 52 megatransferów per second), up to 800 MHz (or, as he prefers, 1.6 GT / s). Theoretically, the transfer of data between the processor and RAM can therefore go up in ~ 51 GB / s. The actual performance of the new Radeon for the time being remains unknown. The lack of ballot papers to the tests, however, to understand, given the quiet release, while the suggested price seems to be responding poznanym specifications.

This begs the question whether AMD has decided for now not to advertise the next family members R600, R680 and RV670 as are the best way to do a small revolution and draw from the current Radeon hole, or is more about that, after the lowest possible cost to prepare the ground itself the premiere of the next generation R700.