ATI screwed on Next gen - 16pipes??

[FarFarAway]

Well props to Mr Pat EnVias for showing me this

ATI, it seems are still suffering bad yields on their next-gen stuff. Rumoured to be about 3% yields on their 24pipes chips

This means that they may have to go down to 16pipes on the r520 just to be able to deliver them on 90nm. They looks to be clocking them at 700MHz+, but thats still not very impressive considering they were talking about 32pipes not-so-long ago.

Anyway, looks like another set-back for ATI...

We heard that the last R520 spin at TSMC is at 3% yield rate for 24 pipes and we can certainly expect a much lower yield for 32-pipes R520. Obviously ATi is still facing some yield issues for their R520 @ 90nm process and ATI could resort to a 16 pipes R520 for better yield and make up the loss with a much higher core clock of 700MHz+ as INQ has previously suggested. It is still possible for ATi to keep to the time frame of August-September launch if decided to go ahead with 16-pipes R520. If not, 24-32 pipes R520 is expected to delay further to Q4 this year.

I'm not happy about this - even as a slight nvidia fanboy

Full article @ VR Zone

 

[PV5150]

Oh dear, that's a very poor yield from a very expensive process. Let's hope they get it sorted

 

[ionicle_old]

Nvidia all the way then...

 

[bloodthirst]

Nvidia all the way then...

no once they get this card working properly, then it will be another story

 

[balilu]

i hope that when they release it wont bbe bad as much as nvidias geforce fx was because of the transition from 110nm to 90nm

 

[Joe]

OMG!! so this chip will require 65nm to produce decent 24-pipe yeilds

well as is usually the case (as with 850PE) in 3 months they will iron out the process and release a crazy edition.....

still @ 16 pipes it will pwn GF7800's

Ati maybe its time to drop the 9700 arch and design an entirley new one(hire ARTx again )??

 

[enVias]

OMG!! so this chip will require 65nm to produce decent 24-pipe yeilds

well as is usually the case (as with 850PE) in 3 months they will iron out the process and release a crazy edition.....

still @ 16 pipes it will pwn GF7800's

Ati maybe its time to drop the 9700 arch and design an entirley new one(hire ARTx again )??

Yes, maybe it will pwn 7800GTX's with 16 pipes, but then what will they do about the 7800 Ultra?

 

[FragTek]

Yes, maybe it will pwn 7800GTX's with 16 pipes, but then what will they do about the 7800 Ultra?

Nothing, because the 7800 Ultra is on a mission to rule the world!

 

[NickS]

Yep. You cant compare ANY CARD, with 16 pixel pipelines LESS than the contender.

ATi will get smashed like a bug and eaten by a wild animal.

Hopefully they can get their asses set and slam it into high gear to get this free-king card out.

 

[Joe]

Yes, maybe it will pwn 7800GTX's with 16 pipes, but then what will they do about the 7800 Ultra?

simple .. get the yeild issues sorted (may take 2-3 months) and use the 90NM process//compared tothe 7800 ultras 110// to clock the r520 higher (and possibly create a version with the originally intended 32 Piplines....)

im hoping they kick off a performance war (and NV win it --- i like Linux Drivers )