As reports associate with reference to its own reliable sources, AMD expects to release the version radeon HD 2900 XT with 1 Gb GDDR-4 memory in the retail market. But this will happen not earlier than the end of July or beginning of August. The video card Characteristics cannot be named as impressive : core frequency will be increased only to 750-767 MHz, the memory frequency will be 2020 MHz DDR. We should consider that the OEM- version radeon HD 2900 XT with GDDR-4 memory is equipped with microcircuits having 0.9 ns access time , which can operate at 2200 MHz DDR frequency and even above. Obviously, the conservative default memory frequency is dictated by the characteristics of power or cooling system in such video card. The version radeon HD 2900 XT with 1 Gb GDDR-4 memory will have similar cooler and the same length of printed-circuit board (to the soon announced on 14 May relative).
Associates report that the recommended price of radeon HD 2900 XT version with 1 Gb GDDR-4 memory will be $550 - but here question about the success for the relationship between price and performance of the new version radeon HD 2900 XT still opened. This new card will appear during July or August, and hardly AMD will have time to translate the chip r600 to the new 65 nm technical process, But rumors about the possibility of this transformation, until now, do not calm down. Related Products :
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