ATI's 65 nanometre marchitecture is readier than most of you
would expect. ATI mess up with R520 and
now with R600 but it seems that RV630 is really on the schedule. The sample cards
are out and they run as we speak. For the ones who don’t know RV630 is ATI's
first 65 nanometre chip.
Well, you can not actually buy them but RV630 is out of the
lab for a while. Some special partners
can get the hold of them and play to figurate out the production of this
mainstream DirectX 10 part.
Production of these cards probably named Radeon X2600 xx is scheduled for April
with a massive availability in May. We still
don’t know who wins DirectX 10 mainstream game G84 or RV630 but we know that RV630
is smaller and probably cooler.