In the last couple of days, there seems to be major changes to naming convention of the Radeon RV670 series. Instead of calling it HD 2950, it seems that AMD is confident taht RV670 is one generation ahead of the 2000 series.

The new naming removes the XTX, XT and Pro naming convention. The two cards will now be known as ATI Radeon HD 3870 (RV670XT) and Radeon HD 3850 (RV670 Pro). The 3870's 70 means it is a high end product. 50 is mid range and 30 would mean entry level product.



下面的圖片是來自精星官網的截圖,不過目前已經看不到了






ATI RadeonHD 3870 requires a Dual-slot. It has 256bit of 512MB GDDR4 memory16Mx32.

ATI RadeonHD 3850 comes in 512 16Mx32、256MB 8Mx32 GDDR3 Both has
a 256bit memory width, memory clocks at GPU clk at 828 Mhz。



RV670是AMD的第一款55nm工藝圖形芯片，由台積電代工

photo probably leaked from M manufacturer

Why do AMD choose to a new naming convention -HD 3000 series ? We think that it is probably to market it as cards ready for CrossFire X (3 or 4 cards in CrossFire. We should expect to see a 3840 or 3850 in the near future.

We should be expecting AGP editions of the cards too in the future. Current cards all require catalyst 8.43.



著名的丁丁之家還有另外說到CrossFire X技術，這將是抗衡NVIDIA三路SLI的新武器，並且支持三卡、四卡並聯，而且更具靈活性。實現該技術需要即將發佈的790FX、790X芯片組主板做基礎，搭配新的Radeon HD 3000系列顯卡，另外內存和電源都要經過AMD官方認證方可。

以下就是ATI Radeon顯卡、ATI CrossFire X技術、相關認證規格的新LOGO：