People are talking a lot about the RV870 chip that ATI will launch in the near future. But AMD has also other plans for chips based on the RV870. The company is aiming to launch the new chip, and then present the RV840 for the medium-entry market, and the RV810 for the lower-entry models. The high-entry market will be featuring a dual-chip card, codenamed R800 and featuring two RV870 cores.

The series that will be born from these products will probably be called Radeon HD 5800. The 5870 should feature the RV870 and a dual-chip R800 called Radeon HD 5870 X2. It’s probable that those models will be launched by the end of the year, while for the RV810, customers will have to wait a little more. There are no other rumors about any technical specification for the RV840 and RV810.

All the cores will be manufactured at 40nm and feature DirectX 11 support.