Commenting on: The story behind the RV870 - a.k.a the Evergreen line

AnandTech has an insightful and interesting article about the release of the RV870 chipset (a.k.a. Evergreen line, a.k.a. Radeon 5XXX) and how AMD’s graphics division has really begun to shine. Think VH1’s “Behind the Music” but for the tech world.

Actually the story of the risks ATI took to keep the GPU size down and keep power requirements low without sacrificing performance is pretty interesting. Then there is the whole Eyefinity project and how it came into being!

Intrique from the article: “Other than the obvious, there was one real problem…