The expected video card radeon HD 2900 Pro, which attract users attention by the advantageous combination of price and performance, hardly will exist on the market for prolonged time. Specifically, therefore AMD does not want to arrange for Radeon HD 2900 Pro a noisy announcement.
There are several Reasons for limiting the deliveries Of radeon HD 2900 Pro . First such AMD card should be based on low end Radeon HD 2900 XT, which, according to the communication of different sources are not too many.
The second reason for the artificial reduction of the life cycle for radeon HD 2900 Pro is the fast appearance of video card , based on newer GPU series RV670, which will be oriented to the same price category.
Let us recall that video card on base of the new RV670 chip are produced on TSMC on 55 nm technological process, They will be presented at the beginning of 2008. Those Chip will be characterized by the presence of 320 stream processors and 256- bit memory system bus . This GPU will include two designations: Radeon HD 2950 XT and Radeon HD 2950 Pro. GPU Frequency for radeon HD 2950 XT will be 825 MHz, they will be completed by 512 Mbytes GDDR4 memory with 2400 MHz frequency . The radeon HD 2950 Pro will contain 256 or 512 Mbytes GDDR3 memory, whose frequency will be 1800 MHz, and the chip frequency will be equal to 750 MHz.