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

[Kaotik]

I have strong reason to believe 7970 will actually be released this year

 

[neliz]

I have strong reason to believe 7970 will actually be released this year

Launched, released, sold.. please define

 

[Kaotik]

Launched, released, sold.. please define

Launched, reviewed, possibly sold.
Of course it can be a case of just reading something wrong, too.

 

[Cuthalu]

9th of January seems to be wrong, unless reviewers usually have over 3½ weeks of time to do the reviewing.

EDIT: obviously wrong month in the original post.

 

[neliz]

9th of June seems to be wrong, unless reviewers usually have over 3½ weeks of time to do the reviewing.

That's half a year review time

 

[Kaotik]

That's half a year review time

Maybe they've finally understood that reviewers can't do proper reviews in less than a week

But anyway, hoping I understood few things right, and get to tell couple ppl "[nelson]ha-ha[/nelson] Told you so!"

 

[Man from Atlantis]

I have almost FULL performance info ...
Okay, i have NOT a cards (no one have them now) but i have some performance numbers. I have real results from Live presentation (with benevolent staff there) in 3D Mark 11, Unigine Heaven, Battlefield 3, Dirt 3 and Crysis 2.

Plus have numbers from slides (unreal PR stunts here) from slide above. I can say how HD 7970 perform, i know it from these few real tests ... stay tuned, all will be here soon.

If i am telling, performance is only few percents above HD 6970 (in Games not 3D11 and Unigine) it is NOT speculation, but info from real GAME results ...

 

[fellix]

So, keeping the same setup rate as in Cayman, but now with cached stream-out gives something like ~50% performance increase?!

 

[simbus82]

So, keeping the same setup rate as in Cayman, but now with cached stream-out gives something like ~50% performance increase?!

In some situations... more than 50%! if is it real could be a great thing!!!

 

[Helmore]

I have strong reason to believe 7970 will actually be released this year

If they wanted to release it this year they should have already released it, with full availability of course. Launching it now, without very high volume availability, will only decrease sales of their current gen cards and the Christmas sales are too important to risk that. Just my guess though, I'm not well versed with marketing and sales and everything that entails.

 

[fellix]

I just wonder, is the geometry processing (pre-setup) is distributed like in Fermi or still goes through a dedicated narrow pipeline -- two in this case.

Looks like GCN will still be behind Fermi in peak geometry rate.

 

[simbus82]

I just wonder, is the geometry processing (pre-setup) is distributed like in Fermi or still goes through a dedicated narrow pipeline -- two in this case.

Looks like GCN will still be behind Fermi in peak geometry rate.

Maybe this can help... is it distributed, right?

 

[neliz]

9th of January seems to be wrong, unless reviewers usually have over 3½ weeks of time to do the reviewing.

EDIT: obviously wrong month in the original post.

actually, it's still kinda right. but that will become clear soon.

 

[Devildoll]

they are using the exact same games as last time, it seems.

 

[Kaotik]

actually, it's still kinda right. but that will become clear soon.

So 9th January for retail availability or 9th January for 7950 which comes with AIB custom design from the start?

 

[simbus82]

The first slide is edited by OBR

But, we only need to see the bar's shading

 

[Man from Atlantis]

there is no 1.5X tess rate and at first slide and there is written Total War:, he added Shogun 2 to second slide lol..

also check this

http://errorlevelanalysis.com/permalink/218e9ec/

 

[DarthShader]

Hmm... I thought the HD6970 was already AMD branded no?

PS. I am having a cayman launch type of feeling about all this.

 

[Man from Atlantis]

Hmm... I thought the HD6970 was already AMD branded no?

PS. I am having a cayman launch type of feeling about all this.

he obviously used this

http://www.abload.de/img/tessellationb625i3.jpg

 

[simbus82]

there is no 1.5X tess rate and at first slide there is written Total War:, he added Shogun 2 to second slide lol..

also check this

http://errorlevelanalysis.com/permalink/218e9ec/

Yes, i'm watching the "zero" on the y-axis... but now the right graph is correct.

and...

the slide is a FAKE.

overlapped with image from Man from Atlantis...