NVIDIA G80. ATI R600. AMD K8L. Intel Yorkfield. All of these codenames are attached to upcoming products that will be hitting shelves shortly. In this article Brandon goes over the roadmap for both CPUs and GPUs from AMD, ATI, Intel, and NVIDIA. Whether you plan on upgrading soon, or you're waiting until next year, this is one article you won't want to miss! The upcoming GPU ATI enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting is R600. R600 is ATI?s next-generation DirectX 10 GPU. Word leaked out over a year ago that the chip would sport up to 64 shading units and 32 ROPs, but after the G71 fiasco where sites were reporting different pipeline counts for the GPU on practically a weekly basis, we?re not going to put much faith behind those kinds of numbers until we hear official word from ATI, and you should to.

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