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Yesterday, we reported that the announcement of video chip based on RV670 will be on 15 November, and the first video card will be the retail Radeon HD 3850.
Associate issued a formal presentation slides from AMD on the announcement of Radeon HD 3870 and Radeon HD 3850, and these materials allow us to ascertain many information about products based on RV670. Here is the list of confirmed data:
- The cost of video chip RV670 will lie in the range $ 150-250.AMD positions these decisions in the productive segment, which is located just above enthusiasts .
- RV670 Video chip is based on 55 nm process and contains 666 million transistors, with an area equal to 192 k.mm. R600 chip contains 700 million transistors, and its area is equal to 408 k.mm. .The benefits in terms of production cost is obvious. Furthermore, RV670 can be faster than R600 in terms of performance, while it consumes twice less power.
- Radeon HD 3870 and Radeon HD 3850. RV670 will support DirectX 10.1, after the first half of 2008, (Windows Vista SP1) all the advantages of this API will be available to owners of video card Radeon HD 3870 and Radeon HD 3850.
- RV670 will be able to work in conjunction of two, three or four similar video in CrossFire X mode . To increase the system performance , user can connect up to eight monitors.
- With regard to the final frequency for Radeon HD 3870 and Radeon HD 3850 there were differences even on AMD slide .For Radeon HD 3870 was mentioned the frequencies 775/2400 MHz or 775/2250 MHz for the Radeon HD 3850 - frequencies are 668/1656 MHz and 720/1800 MHz. As we explained , Radeon HD 3850 may exist in at least two versions, meaning different frequencies.
- RV670 will get - 320 stream processor , 16 texture block , 16 rops block and 256- memory system bus.
- Peak energy for Radeon HD 3870 is just 105 W for the Radeon HD 3850 this figure is 95 Watts. Noise level is 34 dBA and 31 dBA, respectively. Both video cards will have only one power connector with six pins.
- Technology dynamic management of energy consumption will change the memory and core frequency. In some general-purpose tasks of power will be reduced to 26 W for the Radeon HD 3850 and to 34 W for the Radeon HD 3870.
The second part relates to the performance level of video card based on RV670. In 3DMark'06, with default setting and Athlon 64 X2 6400 + processor and 2 GB memory , the Radeon HD 3870 will be slightly faster than Radeon HD 2900 XT and Radeon HD 3850 will be about 10% slower then Radeon HD 2900 XT. According to the gaming tests results it becomes clear that the Radeon HD 3870 may compete with Radeon HD 2900 XT, sometimes it lead with 10-20%.
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