R600 Pictures

[Dan0512]

It's big


dan

 

[maxxoverclocker]

(just hope bigger means better....) i can hope!

 

[meionm]

Any word about mounting, I want to watercool my gfx but I am not planning to dish out $140 for waterblock lasting less than 5 months.

 

[FeuerFrei]

What an enormous core! And they want to make a dual-core R600

 

[watchthisspace]

IMO, the core doesn't seem that much bigger than the R580 or the G80

 

[AngelfireUk83]

You beat me dan you beat me pretty cool how they put it on an angle whats that do anyways make better cooling or something

Wonder how it'll benchmark when it comes out hope to see some nice numbers.

 

[darkcow]

that damn processor is almost bigger than my CPU. what the hell is going on here.

 

[thaclassikz]

^Thats how powerful it is!!

 

[BossBorot]

pretty cool how they put it on an angle whats that do anyways make better cooling or something

for once the inq said something right, except for the 60 degree thing it looks more like 45 to me, so rather then take the time to explain it myself I will just quote them:

"As you can see, the chip location on the packaging is rather interesting, rotated at a 60 degree angle - but do not be surprised, since this is not the first case of GPU manufacturers rotating the chip on the packaging. There are two reasons for that: first one is the fact that AMD needed more room for resistors which can bee seen around this big die and second is far more important - to shorten the traces to video memory as much as possible, in order to reduce the EM noise produced by the PCB.
Since the R600 comes with 512-bit memory controller, rotating the die was pretty much the only way it could get to stratospheric clocks of both GPU and GDDR-3/GDDR-4 memory." - http://www.theinq.com/default.aspx?article=35967