R600, a bit of news.

fps justin · November 25th, 2006

The Inquirer:
AMD's R600 die gets pixellated
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35967

http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35707

Jokerswild · November 25th, 2006

Weird looking at it on a angle.

fps justin · November 25th, 2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jokerswild

Weird looking at it on a angle.

i agree.

**gvblake22** · November 26th, 2006

The nForce 5 series NB has the die positioned diagonally like that too.

There must be some underlying engineering reasoning behind it.

wtcnbrwndo4u · November 26th, 2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by gvblake22

The nForce 5 series NB has the die positioned diagonally like that too.
There must be some underlying engineering reasoning behind it.

Yeah, there must be. That is akward though.

XoRn · November 28th, 2006

The Article

Quote:

There are two reasons for that: first one is the fact that AMD needed more room for resistors which can bee seen around this big die and second is far more important - to shorten the traces to video memory as much as possible, in order to reduce the EM noise produced by the PCB.
Since the R600 comes with 512-bit memory controller, rotating the die was pretty much the only way it could get to stratospheric clocks of both GPU and GDDR-3/GDDR-4 memory.

**gvblake22** · November 28th, 2006

aaahhhhh, good spot there XoRn

polobunny · November 28th, 2006

I say it's for marketing. I can't beleive they just thought of that now, if it's for the reason they're giving.

**gvblake22** · November 28th, 2006

Quote:

Originally Posted by polobunny

I say it's for marketing. I can't beleive they just thought of that now, if it's for the reason they're giving.

LOL, I doubt it's for marketing. I think it's mostly to fit in the transistors in the right spots (which makes sense).

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