AMD: Sea Islands R1100 (8*** series) Speculation/ Rumour Thread

yes I know. but he is not going to talk about "unreleased AMD products". standard reasoning.

So only he knows what it is that AMD have to respond to GTX 700 series. If they have nothing I find it hard to believe. They know 20nm is not ready for another year. TSMC admitted it publicly on their Q1 2013 earnings conference call.

Selling Tahiti and Pitcairn against GTX 700 series at current price points would be an open invitation to Nvidia to take more market share. Nvidia have already destroyed AMD in notebooks with 70% marketshare. Desktop is only slightly better for AMD. Nvidia still holds > 60% desktop GPU market share. If AMD are going to have no new products then they deserve whats coming their way - marketshare losses and GPU division losing money.

 

raghunathan: Hainan is low-end GPU designed esp. for mobile segment.

 

ssh!! dont spoil the fun...

 

Perhaps. I believe Nvidia still has headroom with GK110 though, should they need to react to a new high-end card launched by AMD before Maxwell is ready. Titan has a 250W TDP with 14 out of 15 SMX units activated and boost clocks to around 1GHz. I could see a special edition 1GHz+ 15 SMX version being a good 15-20% faster within a 300W envelope, that ought to at least tie whatever AMD can release on 28nm. Of course that would be a low volume part and who knows what would happen with prices but it's all speculative anyway.

 

the names might be wrong. but there is definitely a AMD product stack refesh to compete with GTX 700 series. Some are calling volcanic islands and some are calling sea islands. If AMD is going to sit idle for another year things get ugly for AMD. Nvidia is already eating AMD's lunch.

 

https://www.facebook.com/AMDGaming

"Only one more week until Computex in Taipei begins. We've got some special announcements planned so stay tuned!"

Hopefully AMD clears the air and announces the true updates to Tahiti and Pitcairn. its high time they did.

 

Volcanic is 20nm based on every leak, rumor, whatever, and it'll come in very late this year if the process allows it.
AMD has also said that 7900 is their highend for this year.

 

Well the names turned out to be correct they just weren't the chips people were expecting. So if you'd go by that there'd be only one chip missing (curacao) from the series, not two.

 

Most of those leaks also had the ludicrous Opteron APU block diagram that was shot down multiple times but kept coming back.

TSMC started 28nm volume production in October 2011 and we didn't see realistic stock of the 7970 until mid January 2012. Now they are saying Q1/Q2 2014 for the start of 20nm volume production - that's the middle of 2014 before we'll realistically see any 20nm gpu's.

It surely has to be 28nm if it's going to be released anything near the end of this year. There's an outside chance of GF instead of TSMC I guess.

 

Make a new chip, call it 7980. There, done.

 

http://www.rage3d.com/articles/hardware/amd_worldcast/

 

And the question still remains:
Is that from a (credible!) source or is it speculation from the author himself.

 

just ask him maybe ?

Joke aside, he was visit AMD HQ and do an article about AMD CPU, so i can imagine at least what is say is credible, now, does the date is right or a speculation or misinterpretation of him, thats another story.

But in this context, he's surely more credible of Videocardz or WCC who re hash again and again the same rumors from 2012. ( now again, does he have misinterpret the information he got, or AMD have change his plan ? the 2013 gpu series was allready ready 1 year ago, they have decided to dont release them first, but now, as Nvidia is re interpret the 680 in 770 and Titan have been push .. maybe they have decided to move too ).

 

It's nothing that hasn't been said before:

Anandtech 15/02/13 http://www.anandtech.com/show/6751/amd-reiterates-2013-gpu-plans-sea-islands-beyond

 

Catalyst 13.6 beta

 

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/graphi..._Quarter_First_Specs_of_New_Chips_Emerge.html

 

They are just rehashing the information that was talked about on the previous page, nothing new.

 

I seem to find HD8800?
1230MHz Engine Core
5800MHz VRAM
1.288v Voltage
0.825v VDDCI
Is it true?

 

The 1230MHz rumour was heard before a while ago at least. I guess we'll see the 8800's within a couple of months then the high-end at the end of October when BF4 launches.

 

Hurm, I've got a pair of 8800s laying on a shelf right now...!