A Chinese site by the name of ZOL has posted some die shots of ATI's upcoming R600 graphics processor. The shots show the R600 side-by-side with its predecessor, the R580, and there are a couple of notable differences. For one, the R600 looks to be about 17% bigger than the R580, even though the former is based on smaller 80nm process technology. Considering the R580 sports around 384 million transistors, the size increase suggests the R600 has in excess of 500 million transistors?a number echoed by the Chinese site.

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