AMD: Volcanic Islands R1100/1200 (8***/9*** series) Speculation/ Rumour Thread

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  1. pjbliverpool

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    Isn't this exactly what you're doing too? I want it to be faster too but so far there do seem to be some worrying contradictions which it would be naive to ignore.
     
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    No, that's why I said the "smart money" is on AMD being faster. It's entirely possible that Nvidia comes out with a super driver, or a Titan Ultra. There's also the (very) slim chance that both the leaked benchmarks were BS and an AMD rep mislead Kyle.

    That's quite a bit different than convincing myself of an outcome based upon reading between the lines of what some press slides didn't say in the face of strong contradictory evidence.
     
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    Regardless if its only slightly faster or slower its a clear win for the consumer. 599.99$ is steep to be sure for a video card, but its a far cry from 999.99$!
     
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    It will probably look somewhat like Cayman did against the competition. It's a refresh on the same process node. I bet it doesn't sell for $300-$370 like Cayman though. ;)
     
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    If the 290X scores roughly 8000 points, and the 280X aka "7970 GHz edition" re-badge scores 6800 points (according to the two AMD slides), wouldn't it follow that AMD's own calculation is that the 290X is 17-18% faster than a warmed over 7970 GHz edition?
     
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    AMD have not given a firestrike score for the 290X as far as I can tell.

    http://iforce.co.nz/i/tkqezbhd.b2v.jpg
    Does not show one, in contrast to the other cards in the lineup.

    http://www.hardocp.com/images/news/13801278018dqw3Obvjp_1_1.jpg
    Has the top of the graph blurred for the 290X but none of the others, probably meaning that the score is at leasst 8000 but could be higher.


    My guess would be that AMD do not want Nvidia to know exactly what they are up against yet, so that they have left time to respond.
    GTX Titan still has a SMX disabled and clock headroom, so Nvidia could still release a 'GTX Titan Ultra' if they need to to maintain the crown (at the cost of their margins and dies for the Quadro K6000).
     
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    Well GK110 has been in production since H2 2012 so they probably have a reasonable amount of binned 2880 core chips.
     
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    Could be a good reason not in production because power consumption is too high, similar Intel core i7 (sandy-bridge) six core processor with 2 cores disable but available in Xeon full 8 cores enabled.
     
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    I doubt it. The difference in power consumption between Titan(2688 cores) and GTX 780(2304 cores) is negligble at best. Who knows though.
     
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    OCUK have said that R9 290x will be about the same price as GTX 780, but a bit faster.
     
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    http://www.techpowerup.com/191543/radeon-r9-290x-could-strike-the-599-99-price-point.html

     
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    That does say "could", so there is a bit of speculation.

    Gibbo at OCUK (who are going to sell loads of these):

    Note though, he does say at the end that AMD could change prices at any time.
     
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    So R9 270X is 2GiB (256-bit) and R9 270 is a 3GiB (384-Bit) HD 7950? :???:
    Hopefully the Korean guy will show some naked shot of his Curacao card soon, to clear up if there is a new GPU for 270s...
     
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    They have absolutely not give any precise metrics for the 290..

    Its > of 5Tflops..... they dont want give any precision on core speed for Nvidia right now.. ( 2816SP at 1ghz = 5.6Tflops )
     
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    Have AMD talked about this in detail? is it PCIe 3.0 only? has it improved Xfire?
     
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    Indicate Improvements yes.
     
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