AMD ship pre-qual RV610 with inactive UVD to OEM market
Thursday 26th July 2007, 12:12:00 PM, written by Rys
Yesterday, hardware.fr published a news report indicating pre-consumer revisions of RV610 were shipped to OEM customers in the Far East.
The production revision of RV610 is A14, with hardware.fr claiming AMD sold at least 10K pieces of A13 RV610 to Palit and PC Partner. A13 doesn't support UVD for video playback acceleration in current driver release. Pending that happening, hardware.fr wonder that even if AMD can enable UVD with a driver update, will the end result be the same as you'd get with A14 silicon. AMD sources indicate it should be equivalent, but don't know for sure quite yet.
RV630 might also face the same overall situation, although it's not clear if AMD released any pre-A15 silicon to OEM customers (A15 is the production revision for RV630). The shipped A13 RV610s won't find their way to retailed box products, and the partners in question mention that China is the destination for the 10K pieces mentioned above.
Hardware.fr don't speculate if AMD knowingly sold A13 RV610 to partners without telling them UVD couldn't be enabled immediately, and we'd be surprised if that were the case.
The production revision of RV610 is A14, with hardware.fr claiming AMD sold at least 10K pieces of A13 RV610 to Palit and PC Partner. A13 doesn't support UVD for video playback acceleration in current driver release. Pending that happening, hardware.fr wonder that even if AMD can enable UVD with a driver update, will the end result be the same as you'd get with A14 silicon. AMD sources indicate it should be equivalent, but don't know for sure quite yet.
RV630 might also face the same overall situation, although it's not clear if AMD released any pre-A15 silicon to OEM customers (A15 is the production revision for RV630). The shipped A13 RV610s won't find their way to retailed box products, and the partners in question mention that China is the destination for the 10K pieces mentioned above.
Hardware.fr don't speculate if AMD knowingly sold A13 RV610 to partners without telling them UVD couldn't be enabled immediately, and we'd be surprised if that were the case.
Note
This story is a little different from the first version published, which had different details and language talking about the qualification status surrounding UVD in A13 RV610 GPUs. We're confident the current article reflects the current situation. Our apologies to AMD if it wasn't quite right first time around.Tagging
graphics ± hardware.fr, amd, rv610, uvd, issue
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