RV770 Makes its Debut

You got another thing coming…

If you were confused into believing that AMD’s next-generation architecture, the RV770 design, was supposed to be out MUCH earlier than today, you wouldn’t be alone.  We started posting about the RV770 design as far back as late December and the stream of news and rumors about the number of shader processors, memory technologies and more.  Last week we were “gifted” with the early release of the Radeon HD 4850 512MB – one of the products based on the RV770 design, but today we’ll walk you through not only both the HD 4850 and HD 4870 graphics boards but also the RV770 architecture itself.

AMD’s New GPU Design Strategy

If you follow our graphics coverage you have saw the recent release of NVIDIA’s GT200 architecture in the form of the GeForce GTX 280 and 260 cards.  That GPU consists of 1.4 billion transistors on a 576 mm^2 die built on TSMC’s 65nm process technology; that makes for one BIG chip.

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