First ATI R600 benchmark results

Posted on Monday, January 01 2007 @ 16:23 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

A new site called Level 505 got their hands on a R600 GPU and published some benchmarks, comparing it to the GeForce 8800 GTX.

Here's a look at the specifications of the AMD/ATI R600 GPU (as published on Level 505 - the real specs may be different):

64 4-Way SIMD Unified Shaders, 128 Shader Operations/Cycle
32 TMUs, 16 ROPs
512 bit Memory Controller, full 32 bit per chip connection
GDDR3 at 900 MHz clock speed (January)
GDDR4 at 1.1 GHz clock speed (March, revised edition)
Total bandwidth 115 GB/s on GDDR3
Total bandwidth 140 GB/s on GDDR4
Consumer memory support 1024 MB
DX10 full compatibility with draft DX10.1 vendor-specific cap removal (unified programming)
32FP internal processing
Hardware support for GPU clustering (any 2^n number, not limited to Dual or Quad-GPU)
Hardware DVI-HDCP support (High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection)
Hardware Quad-DVI output support (Limited to workstation editions)
230W

If these benchmarks are genuine, the R600 is a bit faster than NVIDIA's GeForce 8800 GTX.

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Re: First ATI R600 benchmark results
by Anonymous on Monday, January 01 2007 @ 19:48 CET

Users with 8800GTX's in the wild are reporting sometimes significantly better benchmark #s than this article suggests. Might want to pull out the salt on this one...

Re: First ATI R600 benchmark results
by Thomas De Maesschalck (lsdsmurf@dvhardware.net) on Monday, January 01 2007 @ 21:44 CET

The results are indeed disputed.

I just read that Daily Tech contacted the site and heard that two Level 505 staff members are directly affiliated with AMD's business division. I guess we better wait for some more objective reviews.

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