14 DAY TRIAL // Advanced Micro Devices announced some time ago that the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro graphics processing units will have a short life and will only be available in limited numbers, but now it seems that graphics cards centered around those chips will be very hard to come by as the chips manufacturing company will reportedly make only a few thousands of them.
Just like the Pro version of the Radeon HD 2900 chip, the GT model will to be available only in small quantities and only for a limited amount of time as AMD prepares a new generation of graphics processing units that will replace both of them. According to the news site custompc a representative from the graphics cards manufacturing company Sapphire said that his outfit will receive shipments of those graphics chips but only in small quantities. ''Sapphire will have these parts available, but they'll only be in limited numbers''.
Graphics cards based on the ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro GPU are already available for purchase around the world and that line of cards is priced at an affordable level and it looks like customers will get a very good deal indeed as the Pro is coming equipped with the same number of stream programmable units like the 2900 XT, the state of the art Current offering from AMD. As the only difference between the Pro and the XT versions is the lower core speed of 600MHz of the Pro model, while the price difference is noticeable, users will get a very good price, performance ratio.
On the other hand, the Radeon HD 2900 GT graphics processing units are cut out versions of the 2900 XTs as they only feature 240 stream processing units, are clocked a little lower than the Pro chips while also using a narrower 256-bit memory interface.
Both the Pro and the GT versions of the Radeon HD 2900 graphics processing unit are built using a 80 nanometer fabrication process and it is expected that chips built using the 65nm process are going to hit the market soon.