Meet the Radeon HD - ATI Releases More R600 Details

We have confirmation of AMD’s final naming convention for the R600. And the top end card is now the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT.

The new series of cards, including the 2600, will drop the ‘X’ that has accompanied the model number since the X800, and harks back to the heady days of the Radeon 9700 series.

The HD has been added to the name to indicate the card’s ability to process video and audio through HDMI outputs and onboard sound chips.

the Inquirer - Meet the Radeon HD

At the top of the DirectX 10 chain, is the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT. The AMD ATI Radeon HD 2900-series features 320 stream processors, over twice as many as NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800 GTX. AMD couples the 320 stream processors with a 512-bit memory interface with eight channels. CrossFire support is now natively supported by the AMD ATI Radeon HD 2900-series; the external CrossFire dongle is a thing of the past.

Expect AMD to launch the ATI Radeon HD 2000-family in the upcoming weeks, if AMD doesn’t push back the launch dates further.

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