R700, World's Fastest Graphics Card Is Not a Secret Anymore

This long-anticipated novelty from AMD that has everything to be the world's fastest graphics card, is not a secret anymore officially. While it will debut in August, AMD has lifted NDA for publishing preliminary but official information about the card and its test results.

Thus, here are the specifications:

• Codename: R700;
• GPU: 2 x 55nm RV770, 750/750 MHz (core/shaders); 2 x 10 SIMD cores that include 2 x 800 scalar ALUs; 2 x 10 larger texture units; 2 x 40 texture addressing units; 2 x 160 texture fetch units; 2 x 40 bilinear filtering units; 2 x 16 ROPs;
• RAM: 2 x 1024MB GDDR5, 900 (3600) MHz;
• Bus: 2 x 256-bit;
• Slot: PCI-Express x16;
• Interfaces: 2 x DVI (Dual-Link/HDMI), TV-out;
• Hardware support for DirectX 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1.

Be sure to check back soon for our preview.

Source: AMD