Column: The voice of IT experience Despite the fact that when it posts its results tomorrow, those results will not make silicon investors shriek with glee, no one in the industry – not even Intel – wants AMD to fail. This is all a little bit like a game of European chess. The Red King is [...]

Test one We learned that RV770 GPU already went to production and there is a big chance to see R700 generation much earlier than anyone has expected. TSMC is already doing a pilot production and the chips are, as we reported earlier, developed in 55nm machitecture. The way it looks now, there is a strong possibility that [...]

Says Virtualmark We were surprised to learn that Futuremarks new Virtualmark benchmark makes you believe that a heavily overclocked Radeon 3870 X2 is the fastest graphics card around. Virtual mark actually compares the scores of your machine to similar systems and usually gets you some approximate score. At least its fast but I wouldn’t count on much [...]

Getting scared aren’t we? It looks like OEMs are responding to the Tri core better than Intel expected. That can explain why is Intel going after AMD’s Tri core processors claiming its dual cores are actually better. Intel understands that OEMs will send a message that three cores are better than two, and this is the [...]

Bit better overclock, but better yields We learned that RV670 revision 12 chips will start showing up in late April or early May. The new chips will be easier to produce and you can expect a bit higher overclocking scores, but don’t expect miracles. This is a step that will affect the yields and price of the [...]

Radeon HD 3870X2 uses two RV670 chips on a single PCB. Both Radeon HD 3870 and Radeon HD 3850 are based on the very same chip, the only difference is the frequency. Think about for it a short while and you realize that launching Radeon HD 3850X2 would be quite a simple task. Simply downclock [...]

We knew that CrossFireX would bring new multi-GPU setups, but we did not expect anyone to actually use more than two cores with a single card. ASUS proved us wrong, as EAH3850 Trinity is a tri-core card. It has three RV670 cores cooled by a heatpipe construction and a water block, all in a single [...]