Well, it appears as though AMD are looking to launch their next-gen high-end GPUs as soon as early-2013 with some out of this world naming. The top end cards will arrive as the Radeon HD 8970 and HD 8950 with codenames of Venus XT and Venus Pro, respectively.
These cards will sport no less than 5.1 billion transistors, include 3GB of RAM and sport a 384-bit memory bus. There's no bandwidth numbers just yet, but they should be pushing out some serious digits - those 5.1 billion transistors are going to be cranking along very nicely. KitGuru are reporting that we should see the Radeon HD 8970 unveiled at CeBIT in March, with a full launch at Computex a few months later in June.
The new GPUs are ahead of schedule, giving AMD some power to release a product if NVIDIA comes out with a surprise between now and then. You can also see on the chart above that there's a dual-GPU teased, the Radeon HD 8990 - now that will be a monster if I've ever seen one. We're talking 10.2 billion transistors worth of GPU goodness right there, enough to get the pants rising on any enthusiast.
Most of the specs line up with some 6 month old leaks and that worries me.
AMD was planning on doing XDR2 memory for the 7 series but to get it out quickly they got rid of it.
I would expect them to bring it back for the 8 series.
It could be too early in my opinion, If I was AMD, I'd wait till nVidia releases their 700 series and then strike.
Or they could release now and beat Nvidia to the market by many many months.
AMD is beating Nvidia right now and this is just doubling down on them. Right now AMD is losing in terms of power efficiency if the rumors are correct this will help with that.
Or they could release now and beat Nvidia to the market by many many months.
AMD is beating Nvidia right now and this is just doubling down on them. Right now AMD is losing in terms of power efficiency if the rumors are correct this will help with that.
Or you can also "assume" fast production to get the next gen APUs with some more beasty GPUs in them. Keep ahead of the game I would assume, release 2 new gen CPU and APU at the same time.
Or you can also "assume" fast production to get the next gen APUs with some more beasty GPUs in them. Keep ahead of the game I would assume, release 2 new gen CPU and APU at the same time.
Well AMD puts old gen GPUs in their APUs because it lets them cut the voltage down as they have worked with them longer. It also maxes the performance with very mature drivers.
These cards will sport no less than 5.1 billion transistors, include 3GB of RAM and sport a 384-bit memory bus. There's no bandwidth numbers just yet, but they should be pushing out some serious digits - those 5.1 billion transistors are going to be cranking along very nicely. KitGuru are reporting that we should see the Radeon HD 8970 unveiled at CeBIT in March, with a full launch at Computex a few months later in June.
The new GPUs are ahead of schedule, giving AMD some power to release a product if NVIDIA comes out with a surprise between now and then. You can also see on the chart above that there's a dual-GPU teased, the Radeon HD 8990 - now that will be a monster if I've ever seen one. We're talking 10.2 billion transistors worth of GPU goodness right there, enough to get the pants rising on any enthusiast.
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Most of the specs line up with some 6 month old leaks and that worries me.
AMD was planning on doing XDR2 memory for the 7 series but to get it out quickly they got rid of it.
I would expect them to bring it back for the 8 series.
Or they could release now and beat Nvidia to the market by many many months.
AMD is beating Nvidia right now and this is just doubling down on them. Right now AMD is losing in terms of power efficiency if the rumors are correct this will help with that.
Ya they have the series is old at this point.
Or you can also "assume" fast production to get the next gen APUs with some more beasty GPUs in them. Keep ahead of the game I would assume, release 2 new gen CPU and APU at the same time.
Well AMD puts old gen GPUs in their APUs because it lets them cut the voltage down as they have worked with them longer. It also maxes the performance with very mature drivers.
No 7450, 7570, or 7670.
They are released just OEM only
Ah, so that's their new marketing strategy.
You mean not release old useless cards that are normally rebrands anyway.
We could at least get a 7670.
I don't really see the market for it.
You have the older 6 series that fills in the really cheap.
Trinity covers the really budget gamers.