AMD: R9xx Speculation

Btw any info about UVD 3?

 

I think 3D BR has been mentioned.

 

...and 4K video acceleration. Some minor bug/feature fixes.

 

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

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.

 

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

 

Then again it took TSMC over a year of "mass production" to actually get out the of the risk production stage with 40nm.

 

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

 

Probably Fudzilla… which is kind of another way of saying "nowhere".

 

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.

 

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

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

Now, that "no worries from competition", points to the wrong direction! Uh oh!

 

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).

 

HD6000 gets GPU-Z support:
http://www.techpowerup.com/130141/TechPowerUp_Announces_GPU-Z_0.4.6_MSI_GPU-Z_Giveaway.html

 

http://news.ati-forum.de/index.php/news/34-amdati-grafikkarten/1491-amd-bald-mit-rebranding

 

lol

 

It can be faster juniper

 

superjuniper?

 

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