The HD 2900 Pro has just been published, the trade press is already writing about the successor.
The video cards, which are expected to be launched as the Radeon HD 2950 Pro, built around the RV670 graphics core, are rumored to go on sale within months, which means that the much-anticipated HD 2900 Pro its life cycle will be very short, although this is guaranteed by the fact that AMD will launch a limited number of cards positioned under the HD 2900 XT.
Although no official confirmation has yet been received, the first spy photos and seemingly authentic specifications of the card have already been posted on the World Wide Web. According to them, the graphics processor with 55 nm manufacturing technology will operate at 750 MHz, and the 256/512 MB GDDR256 graphics memory communicating on a 3-bit memory bus will operate effectively at 1,8 GHz.
Among the supported technologies are DirectX 10.1, Shader Model 4.1, PCI Express 2.0, native CrossFire and UVD. This means that the Unified Video Decoder, which is responsible for the hardware acceleration of HD videos, unlike the HD 2900 XT (R600), has finally been left out.
