Acquaintance with the photographs of the video chip ATI r600 already permitted us to understood that the crystal area in it will be approximately to 13% less than in 0.09 m video chip NVIDIA g80. Therefore, transition to 0.08 m technical process permitted ATI to save on silicon. Many of you would for sure want to know, how many transistors in this case contain the chip r600.
Associate computed the number of transistors, which this video chip contains. They learned, that the number of transistors for chip r600 will reaches 720 million pieces. when we compare it with G80 which contains only 681 million transistors, then 700 million transistors are considered as the technologically reasonable limit for 0.09 m chip. It is completely correct, that to step over this limit there were judged precisely 0.08 m chip.
Let us note that with such high density the chip r600 will wins over G80 on the area core. To speak about the real economic profit value is extremely complicated, indeed the first 0.08 m chips of this class will for sure cost more than 0.09 m chips with a close area core and quantity of transistors. Subsequently, when the level of release for suitable 0.08 m chips is normalized, ATI can obtain the price advantages over NVIDIA and its chip g80. According to the evaluations of experts, the transition of large complexity product from 0.09 m to 0.08 m technical process does not represent problem; therefore the level of release for suitable chips must be stabilized sufficiently fast.