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If AMD hadn't had this you-don't-need-to-know mentality then things might have been better for them, all together, but no, we have a secret bigger than the origins of the universe
and we're not telling, that's what they give us in return. And it's up to us, loving users, to scout around, hoping that we might get a glimpse of the products, a feed regarding the frequencies, what kind of memories they use, what architecture, what manufacturing process and so on.
It's a good thing that the Internet is such a big place, in this case, because you can find anything you want and don't want around here, much like the information about the samples of the RV630, also known as the HD 2600 XT graphics card, which are said to run at core/memory frequencies of 800/2200MHz. The first samples were based on the A12 core, but production models will be different, as for the frequencies, they might change as well; after all, nothing is impossible when it comes to AMD.
I wish, I really wish, these guys didn't screw up the R600 series or the Agena, Kuma, Barcelona processors, because if they do, we'll be stuck with Intel, and as promising as things may be at the present time, somewhere in the future a monopole from one x86 CPU manufacturer will mean that they control the market and the pricing for these components. And now, in the light of Samsung's price fixing accusations, to which some high-placed people admitted their guilt to, it would be a good thing over a long time period because, we all know, history has a way of repeating itself.
But let's not digress from the subject: ATI's RV630-based card will be manufactured on the 65nm process node, they will use 256MB of GDDR4 memory on the card with the above-mentioned frequencies running on a 128-bit wide memory interface. Even so the card should be able to yield a 35.2GB/s memory bandwidth. I'm guessing that the memory bandwidth is not the strength behind these cards, but a well thought price and superior performance over NVIDIA's offerings, that should hold the key to getting AMD back to its feet, but we shall see, soon.
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