RV790: 55 nm Manufacturing Process

A lot has been said about ATI's RV790. Clues about the new gpu surfaced in the last November when was clear that AMD was working on a successor to the RV770. A german website, Hardware-Infos, reports that RV790 will be built on the newer improved 55 nm manufacturing process. The new gpu may get a little help from its superior silicon fabrication, foundry partner codename is 55GT, which makes it more expensive to manufacture. According to the source there are two RV790 engineering samples: a base model and an overclocked model. More »