We have studied the graph announcement of video card on the base Of r600, without doubting about its variability. Many users was even happy that the official data about the speed of the long-awaited product from amd will be showed on 15 March, during exhibition ceBIT 2007 in Germany.
But here Alarm signals entered yesterday from our associate and many others into one voice with the reference to the official representatives AMD witch stated that the announcement of graphical solutions on the base of chip r600 is transferred to the second quarter this year.
As explained the AMD representatives to all potential participants in the briefing, company decided to transfer the announcement Of r600 to the second quarter in order to tune its strategy for the best correspondence with market situation. It was simultaneously said, that AMD is assembled to propose competitive configuration with the extremely attractive relationship performance, functionality and price. This configuration must be dedicated to the wide market segment as it was planned before.
If we translate all these statements to the simple human language and we also recall the tentative announcement periods of cheaper video card radeon x2900 XT, all becomes more or less clear. At the end of March AMD could present only the high end version r600 in the form of graphic card radeon x2900 XTX by cost $599. In the competing NVIDIA company in this case has already the GeForce 8800 GTS witch cost $299. This is sufficiently far from the greatest mass price segment ($150-249); however, it is much less than $599.
New strategy AMD, as we can surmise, implies to the synchronous announcement of immediately several models video card on the base of chip r600, which cover a large price band. It is completely possible that video card on the base of chips RV630 and RV610 in the new AMD strategy will be announced simultaneously with the elder models. Finally, we have to wait more for the second quarter : and this is again three months.
AMD Representatives also added that the solution about the transfer Of r600 announcement was complex, but it will lead to the best product appearance on the market . When desired these words can be interpreted as the tendency to improve the characteristics of video card on the base Of r600.
Some associates added that simultaneously video cards on the base of chip r600 can have physics acceleration or scientific calculations technologies, and also Quad crossfire.
Let us note that AMD it does not fix a date, about the announcement Of r600, and just simply call the entire second block as announcement period .