14 DAY TRIAL // Sometimes it looks as if the entire computer hardware manufacturing industry is floating on a huge sea of rumors and half formed opinions as there are so many hearsays about some many deployed or yet to be launched components that is practically impossible to keep track with all of them.
For those die hard AMD and ATI fans that are waiting for the next generation graphics processing units from AMD there are a few good news based on hard facts. The next generation of Advanced Micro Devices graphics processing units will come from the RV670 family of chips and they are expected to finally hit the video card manufacturers and then the consumer market sometime later this year.
At the same time, they are supposed to replace the current high-end desktop graphics cards which are based on the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro and Gt models. As a number of images of the new graphics card that integrates the RV670 graphics processing unit were recently leaked on the Web, users can now make an idea about how things will look in the near future.
Like all modern day and high end graphics cards, this one too is pretty long and it comes equipped with a quite big active cooling system. On the cooling side, it does not appear to be too bulky so it may actually fit into a single PCI slot, unlike most high end graphics cards that are now available that need at least two free slots because of their big coolers.
Of course, this is only a prototype and the actual graphics cards may look very different from this, especially the ones manufactured by companies like GeCube or HIS that are known to raise the core and memory running frequencies in order to maximize performance.
For the extreme graphics performance fanatics this card comes with CrossFire connectors, so multi graphics cards setups are in order now. According to the news site tcmagazine, this RV670 based card may start shipping from the 25th of September and on this site too the latest pictures of the new card may be viewed.