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Competition between AMD and Nvidia GPUs Should Heat Up by Year's End

Posted 09/29/09 at 06:42:56 PM  by Pulkit Chandna

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AMD and Nvidia will go full throttle in the fourth and final quarter of 2009. Both the GPU makers will trot out a number of GPUs across various price points in the fourth quarter. Nvidia will have the GeForce GT210, GT220 and GT240 on the market before it inaugurates the GT300 series in December, according to Digitimes.

Sources at graphics card makers expect AMD to unveil the ATI Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 in October, and Radeon HD 5870 X2 and Radeon HD 5850 X2 a month later. The report adds that AMD will launch the single-GPU Radeon HD 5890 when the market seems to plead for it. That apparently is Digitimes’ way of saying that its sources have no idea when the Radeon HD 5890 will be released.

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avatar5890 timing

Submitted by relaxed911 on Wed, 09/30/2009 - 6:43am

The timing of the 5890's entry will be entirely dependent on how fast Nvidia's GT300 series will be.  If the single-core GT300 turns out to be significantly faster than ATI's current offering, ATI will suffer from not having much more headroom with their new GPUs. 

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avatar  3.0 billion

Submitted by Deanjo on Wed, 09/30/2009 - 4:49am

 

  • 3.0 billion transistors
  • 40nm TSMC
  • 384-bit memory interface
  • 512 shader cores [renamed into CUDA Cores]
  • 32 CUDA cores per Shader Cluster
  • 1MB L1 cache memory [divided into 16KB Cache - Shared Memory]
  • 768KB L2 unified cache memory
  • Up to 6GB GDDR5 memory
  • Half Speed IEEE 754 Double Precision

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/9/30/nvidia-gt300s-fermi-architecture-unveiled-512-cores2c-up-to-6gb-gddr5.aspx

 

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avatarKnowing Nvidia, this card

Submitted by WFUJay on Wed, 09/30/2009 - 11:25am

Knowing Nvidia, this card will only run you about $5,000.

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avatarMIMD...?

Submitted by Comic Book Guy on Wed, 09/30/2009 - 4:15am

But, will nVIDIA have changed the GT300 to use MIMD which has been reported for about a year give or take?

Comic Book Guy

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avatarHere we go for another round

Submitted by Deanjo on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 7:07pm

ATI debuts first with a faster card and then the Nvidia brings out their new stuff thumping ATI down into having to slap 2 GPU's on a card to keep close.

 

Lather, rinse and repeat as many times necessary.

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avatarRadeon 58xx Numbering?

Submitted by bingojubes on Tue, 09/29/2009 - 4:16pm

isn't it a bit unusual that they didn't number these new cards of theirs in the early 5 thousands? maybe we will end up seeing it's earlier predecessors soon, instead of another gain. i just thought that since it's a 58xx, then it would not be such a large jump across a 5-series.

i think ATI will still come out on top in this case, because the GTX 280 brought a knife to the Sapphire 4870 x2 gun & sword fight. but with new products looming for the holiday's, i can't wait to see what the holidays have in store!

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