Via X-bit Labs: "Add-in-card partners of AMD recently started to sell ATI Radeon HD 2900 Pro graphics card for under $300, essentially killing sales of dual-chip ATI Radeon HD X2 and making the high-end performance available at an affordable price. But later this year the code-named RV670 product will offer an even better balance of performance, price, power consumption and features, if a slide, presumably from an AMD presentation, published by Expreview web-site is to be believed.

According to the slide, ATI Radeon HD 2000-series graphics cards based on ATI RV670 graphics processing units (GPUs) will offer “R600 performance with better thermal and power” along with DirectX 10.1 with shader model 4.1 functionality, universal video decoder (UVD) as well as PCI Express 2.0 and DisplayPort interfaces support.

The ATI RV670 chip will be produced using 55nm process technology at TSMC and will have 320 unified shader processors, the same amount as found on the ATI R600 GPU as well as ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT/Pro graphics cards. It is unclear whether the RV670 will continue to have 512-bit memory bus, or AMD will shrink it to 256-bit, but will improve efficiency of render back ends (RBEs) and boost the speed of GDDR4 memory chips. The second option is preferable, as it allows to make graphics cards considerably easier and cheaper to produce."

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Source @ X-bit Labs