ATI shatters clock records fra "The inquirer"

[Åsmund@ATi]

ATI shatters clock records

 

1GHz GPU core clock achieved

 

 

WE HAVE always claimed that 90 nano manufacturing process will take GPU's to heights previously unimagined. When Nvidia its launched GeForce 7800GTX architecture, we have seen that 110 nanometre process has its limits, but can be a happy player when running at 500MHz.

At the same time, ATI was bi**hing over its 90 nano baby, the "Fudo rocks nVIDIA's butt in Quake 4" prototypes just couldn't get past the 500MHz barrier. However, once the guy which deserves the highest company bonus in 2005 solved the problem, the clocks started climbing. First, it was 600MHz. Then, 650MHz. A lot of samples hit 700MHz, but attainable yields held at 625MHz, which is the shipping speed of the yet-to-be-shipped Radeon X1800XT.

 

Two well-known overclockers from Finland, Sampsa Kurri and Ville Suvanto were present at ATI BEACHmarking event in Ibiza, trying to get the beast running at insane speeds. However, the problem was that ATI provided non-OC friendly Enermax 525W PSU's, and there was simply not enough juice flowing through the rails. Muropaketti guys did manage to get well above 800 MHz for GPU and 920 MHz for the memory, which only goes to show that new Samsung GDDR3 modules simply rock - and memory controller is no slouch either.

 

Guys said to me that with right cooling and enough power, there was potential to crack the 1 GHz barrier. And, that happened even before the retail product hit the shelves and before official, butt-kicking Nvidia driver is made available.

 

Unlike their fellow countryman Kimi Raikonnen, their GPU engine didn't blew up and with the power of OC-friendly finnish weather and some liquid nitro, the guys managed to get the GPU core rocking at 1.003 MHz, while memory run happily at 940.5 MHz DDR (1.89 GHz). 60 gigs per second of memory bandwidth on a single board. Can you say... OMG?

 

Mark these two dates:

 

March 6th, 2000 - AMD ships first GHz CPU, AMD Athlon (codename Magnolia)

October 26th, 2005 - ATi speeds through GHz barrier, ATI Radeon (codename Fudo) µ

[Momo]

Å hei så irrelevant for 99,2% av oss.

[emacoolit]

Men om 1 år så er det relevant for 10%, og om 3 år så er det relevant for 50%

 

[Smirnoff]

Lurer på hvorfor det alltid kalles "barrier". 1 GHz er jo ingen uoppnåelig ting, AMD gikk jo i sin tid til 1 GHz og ikke minst forbi glatt som bare det.

[daffyd]

på gpu-fronten så har de jo fokusert på å gjøre mest mulig pr klokke vha x antall pipelines ++ istedenfor å fokusere på frekvens. Skal ATI begynne som Intel holdt på nå?

[GeirL]

Seems like it! Mer strømforbruk æsj altså!

[Knightospr]

Seems like it!  Mer strømforbruk æsj altså!

5066093[/snapback]

Ikke så farlig her i kalde nord, når temperaturen ute er nesten mot minus. Ser bare pcen som ekstra ovn med innebygd pc.

Endret 27. oktober 2005 av Knightospr

[Ozelot]

Hoho!

 

Lurer på hva denne kan gjøre i 3dmark05!

[JimRamse]

Han kjører faktisk 1GHz på Core, å 1GHz DDR (altså 2GHz) på minnet.

 

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=77157

[Malvado]

Imponerende.

Ser ut som det lønner seg å gå over til lavere produksjonsprosses. Blir gøy å se hva som blir neste steg i hastigheten rett fra fabrikken til Ati (vel partneren som produserer brikkene).