AMD: R9xx Speculation

Some more info here: http://pclab.pl/news43091.html, from "a little unofficial talk with an AMD worker". You can try to google translate it, but I don't think it will work well. It's also written rather vaguely, so I complied the main points for you:

- improved Cypress architecture, all GPU blocks improved (so shaders too?)
- better performance clock for clock, less power consumption.
- The experience in the 40nm process allows for better organization of the die (and save space - that's what I personaly wondered if possible)
- Better yields allow for more complicated structures
- new UVD 3.0 decoder, with full video playback acceleration for Eyefinity, up to 6 monitors. Overall better decoder.
- no problems with samples of chips and cards, not even with the 6970.
- prototypes might be send to AMD partners in the coming weeks
- AMD wants HD6970 on the market before Xmas (obviously!)
- No worries from competetion, they believe Radeons will reign in DX11 generation
- Aggressive pricing planned, as long as enough cards can be produced. (buy one asap before prices go up! ;) )
- First low-end, then middle, then HD6970.
- HD6800 planed for beginning of 2011, could be earlier though.
- no comment on the rumour AMD would be doing a fusion processor for next Xbox.
- lots of optimizm in the AMD camp

That's all. FWIW applies here and as many grains of salt you need. :)
 
Some more info here: http://pclab.pl/news43091.html, from "a little unofficial talk with an AMD worker". You can try to google translate it, but I don't think it will work well. It's also written rather vaguely, so I complied the main points for you:

- improved Cypress architecture, all GPU blocks improved (so shaders too?)
- better performance clock for clock, less power consumption.
- The experience in the 40nm process allows for better organization of the die (and save space - that's what I personaly wondered if possible)
- Better yields allow for more complicated structures
- new UVD 3.0 decoder, with full video playback acceleration for Eyefinity, up to 6 monitors. Overall better decoder.
- no problems with samples of chips and cards, not even with the 6970.
- prototypes might be send to AMD partners in the coming weeks
- AMD wants HD6970 on the market before Xmas (obviously!)
- No worries from competetion, they believe Radeons will reign in DX11 generation
- Aggressive pricing planned, as long as enough cards can be produced. (buy one asap before prices go up! ;) )
- First low-end, then middle, then HD6970.
- HD6800 planed for beginning of 2011, could be earlier though.
- no comment on the rumour AMD would be doing a fusion processor for next Xbox.
- lots of optimizm in the AMD camp

That's all. FWIW applies here and as many grains of salt you need. :)


Thanks!
Luckily I don't need translator for that article :devilish:

EDIT:

So according to their 'source' HD6970 launch before HD6870! Also HD68xx series only next year...
Maybe they really are goind to produce it on 28nm or HD6970 will be based on Barts core.
 
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So according to their 'source' HD6970 launch before HD6870! Also HD68xx series only next year...
Maybe they really are goind to produce it on 28nm or HD6970 will be based on Barts core.
28nm is not due until H2'11, so I guess AMD wants to bin more Caymans for the dual-GPU first, to the detriment of 6800 series?!
 
28nm is not due until H2'11, so I guess AMD wants to bin more Caymans for the dual-GPU first, to the detriment of 6800 series?!

Huh? Both GF and TSMC are IIRC starting 28nm bulk (the high performance, fit for gfx chips) risk production in Q4 this year, mass production Q1 next year
 
Huh? Both GF and TSMC are IIRC starting 28nm bulk (the high performance, fit for gfx chips) risk production in Q4 this year, mass production Q1 next year

Then again it took TSMC over a year of "mass production" to actually get out the of the risk production stage with 40nm.
 
Huh? Both GF and TSMC are IIRC starting 28nm bulk (the high performance, fit for gfx chips) risk production in Q4 this year, mass production Q1 next year
I've also heard that 28nm products wouldn't be available until 2H also. Not sure where, though, which is terrible because I know I've repeated it to others :oops:
 
Huh? Both GF and TSMC are IIRC starting 28nm bulk (the high performance, fit for gfx chips) risk production in Q4 this year, mass production Q1 next year
I think you'd be crazy to expect end-products until late Q2 even in a best case scenario. Needless to say, neither NVIDIA nor AMD is really expecting to use 28nm designs to compete for 2011 Back-to-School OEM sockets.
 
...and 4K video acceleration. Some minor bug/feature fixes.

Coool! So these darn "Crowd Run" and "Ducks take off" UHD Video files can finally playback with more than 3fps?:p



Some more info here: http://pclab.pl/news43091.html, from "a little unofficial talk with an AMD worker". You can try to google translate it, but I don't think it will work well. It's also written rather vaguely, so I complied the main points for you:

- improved Cypress architecture, all GPU blocks improved (so shaders too?)
- better performance clock for clock, less power consumption.
- The experience in the 40nm process allows for better organization of the die (and save space - that's what I personaly wondered if possible)
- Better yields allow for more complicated structures
- new UVD 3.0 decoder, with full video playback acceleration for Eyefinity, up to 6 monitors. Overall better decoder.
- no problems with samples of chips and cards, not even with the 6970.
- prototypes might be send to AMD partners in the coming weeks
- AMD wants HD6970 on the market before Xmas (obviously!)
- No worries from competetion, they believe Radeons will reign in DX11 generation
- Aggressive pricing planned, as long as enough cards can be produced. (buy one asap before prices go up! ;) )
- First low-end, then middle, then HD6970.
- HD6800 planed for beginning of 2011, could be earlier though.
- no comment on the rumour AMD would be doing a fusion processor for next Xbox.
- lots of optimizm in the AMD camp

That's all. FWIW applies here and as many grains of salt you need. :)

Aggresive pricing towards whom? Towards the buyer or the competition, lol!

Now, that "no worries from competition", points to the wrong direction! Uh oh!
 
Coool! So these darn "Crowd Run" and "Ducks take off" UHD Video files can finally playback with more than 3fps?:p
If you have a decently clocked Core i7 (~3800MHz), the 2160p sample of the ducks would playback rather smoothly, using properly threaded software decoder (libavcodec for instance).
 
http://news.ati-forum.de/index.php/news/34-amdati-grafikkarten/1491-amd-bald-mit-rebranding


As we hinted a few reliable sources, one could go to AMD soon with a new branding process (naming) to swing. AMD so shall make a few small signs, the graphics card name for a new naming scheme. One reason could be that not enough has HD6700 graphics cards and thus help with a Rebrand of Juniper chips must.

This could soon be out of a Juniper XT, which is an HD5770, HD6770 is a planned and will be out of the HD6770 (XT Barts) a HD6870. We have also learned that you think about it at AMD, rename the HD6970 (Antilles) in a HD6990. What will happen after the Rebrand named HD6970 is unfortunately unclear. We could imagine however, that AMD consider several graphics cards with dual-GPU contact with different performance, which could be planned from the HD6870 (XT Cayman), a new HD6970. could also be a possibility given that it leaves the HD6970 as a single-GPU graphics card and the only multi-GPU HD6990

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juniper with extreme SPs...

Anyway, after killing the ATi brand, I can't be surprised by anything. I wouldn't be surprised if both these nonsences devised the same marketing specialist. As Germans say, der Teufel soll den Kerl buserieren!
 
If that chart is true I can only assume that the AMD culture has truly taken over and they absolutely cannot stand to be successful. So they're doing everything they can to make their GPU division crash and burn.

Bleh.

Regards,
SB
 
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