ATI R600 in pictures

Interesting pictures of the ATI R600 chip have been posted on ZOL.com in China.

The Canadian company’s first DirectX 10 graphics processor is in the final development phase and is expected to be released in January 2007. As the premiere approaches, more and more information is leaking about ATI’s savior, and now some fresh images have been posted on the World Wide Web.

R600 and a Chinese coin

The comparative picture clearly shows that the R90 GPU with 580nm manufacturing technology is about 17% smaller than the 80nm R600. For the R580, the number of transistors is 384 million, while for the R600, this number is estimated to exceed 500 million. If you can believe the various rumors and rumors, then the R600 has a 512-bit memory controller and can handle up to 2 GB of GDDR4 type VRAM.

R580 vs. R600 (left to right)

An interesting solution is that the R600 chip will be rotated 45 degrees over normal on the printed circuit board, as we have seen with quite a few motherboard chip sets in recent years. The goal here is the same: they wanted to achieve the shortest possible wiring to the graphics memory.