AMD: Southern Islands (7*** series) Speculation/ Rumour Thread

[UniversalTruth]

November 10th?

 

[Alexko]

Where did that come from?

 

[neliz]

November 10th?

Are they going to Bulldozer us and launch the professional parts first as well?

 

[Mianca]

Are they going to Bulldozer us and launch the professional parts first as well?

So you want us to look out for FirePro V8900/V9900 cards?

Talking about professional parts, I always had a kind of strange feeling about the V5900. It's a really odd product.

 

[Psycho]

Talking about professional parts, I always had a kind of strange feeling about the V5900. It's a really odd product.

Geometry per watt: http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1577474&postcount=25

 

[gkar1]

Did anyone hear/watch today's presentation at the Deutsche Bank technology conference?
http://ir.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-eventDetails&EventId=4161888

Seifert mentioned they'd be demoing the world's first 28nm GPU. Perhaps Bulldozer and HD7K will be under one roof at this event: http://amd-member.com/newsletters/DevCentral/FusionZone2011.html
This should mark the start of silly season, or am I too late and the season was declared open already?

 

[LordEC911]

Did anyone hear/watch today's presentation at the Deutsche Bank technology conference?
http://ir.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-eventDetails&EventId=4161888

Seifert mentioned they'd be demoing the world's first 28nm GPU. Perhaps Bulldozer and HD7K will be under one roof at this event: http://amd-member.com/newsletters/DevCentral/FusionZone2011.html
This should mark the start of silly season, or am I too late and the season was declared open already?

IMO silly season opened after AFDS.

Edit- Awww... can't watch it at work.

 

[Kaotik]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/graphi...Radeon_HD_7000_Southern_Islands_at_Event.html

There we go

 

[Miksu]

Tom's Hardware has released some leaked specs of HD7900. The specs look familiar.

 

[no-X]

Yes. "source: NordicHardware" …and NordicHardware says: "Source: Expreview" …and in fact it was taken from a random forum post

 

[fellix]

I really hope the case of XDR2 is true. It's very fit technology for high performance GPU computing. Let's hope there's some common sense left in RAMBUS' leadership this time.

 

[Ike Turner]

Nom nom

 

[LordEC911]

I really hope the case of XDR2 is true. It's very fit technology for high performance GPU computing. Let's hope there's some common sense left in RAMBUS' leadership this time.

Already shot down by Charlie and neliz.

 

[no-X]

Yes, it's just unlikely. When ATI needed faster modules, they (co)developed GDDR3, GDDR4 and GDDR5. Using a low-volume proprietary product, which is encumbered by licence fees for ~15% bandwidth advantage over GDDR5 isn't a very typical manner for ATI (nor AMD).

 

[RobertR1]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/graphi...Radeon_HD_7000_Southern_Islands_at_Event.html

There we go

Hardly the high end part we want to be drooling over....

 

[neliz]

Hardly the high end part we want to be drooling over....

With Evergreen at least they showed a Juniper, I don't like trending down

 

[Alexko]

With Evergreen at least they showed a Juniper, I don't like trending down

There might be more money in notebooks.

 

[mczak]

With Evergreen at least they showed a Juniper, I don't like trending down

Judging by the cooling the chip seems to be at similar wattage than mobile Juniper.

 

[RobertR1]

With Evergreen at least they showed a Juniper, I don't like trending down

I'd imagine if they had some functional flagship models, they would be shown. We'll likely have to wait for the Oct investor call to get an idea of if/when the cards are coming. Or wait for you to spill the beans

 

[RobertR1]

http://www.nordichardware.com/news/71-graphics/44180-amd-hd-7000-delayed-to-2012.html

Delayed to 2012. Weird timing. I had a hunch nothing was going to come based on the card they showed recently so I built a new PC over the weekend and got a killer deal on a GTX580. Glad I jumped on the deal and didn't wait it out.