My last blog post RD890/SB800, The Perfect Storm was really a rushed job. I started thinking about how the new NB/SB was going to work for AMD/ATI and it dawned on me they were waiting to release it with a new CPU. About half way through writing it all down, it came to me that this CPU will finally be their Fusion part we had heard a lot about during the latter half of 2008.
The inclusion of an integrated clock manager into the NB: This would allow the GPU core to be clocked differently than the CPU. This just makes sense and until hearing this piece I always wondered how they were going to get around voltage/clock settings on a multi-cored system.
Increased PCIe bandwidth, along with Hydra: Crossfire between the on die GPU and a third party graphics card attached to the PCIe slot. This setup could actually allow for 5 GPUs in a system, if they implement it correctly. Seriously though, this just sounds insane! I wish I could get my hands on some test hardware to flex an on die GPU crossfired with a 3rd party card.
So I guess we will see what happens with AMD/ATI during the first half of 2010 with the release of new hardware, I got my money riding on a VERY interesting product.
