AMD Clarifies 2013 Radeon Plans

[g13mon]

maybe the new gpu tech is in the new console apu's

 

[rdc85]

[citation][nom]DjEaZy[/nom]... i still sit on my HD5870... and it's still a fine card... but i wanted to gift my self 4 my birthday @ 27.02. a new HD8000 series card... the upgrade is overdo...[/citation]


I'm myself is waiting for 8xxx series or 7xx to replace my 5770x2....
when I heard the news there no new card for a year for amd and nvi, I pulled the trigger....

So far so good, it well worth it..... 😀

 

[folem]

[citation][nom]bak0n[/nom]That is an issue with crossfire AND sli. Its due to the "communication" between cards. If you don't like it, buy a single card. Either way, its not AMD's fault.[/citation]
It sounds to me that because AMD makes CFx, that is is their fault, just as it is nVidia's for SLI. Just because it isn't a unique problem, doesn't mean it isn't the fault of the developer.

 

[beetlejuicegr]

Guys no matter what optimizations they may do, it is a huge deal and a really important event that they are breaking their production cycle of the last years.
1) AMD might have problems with the production partner? Remember amd left global fountries or smth
2) AMD can't afford or can't find credit for research and production or is negotiating it at this moment
3) When a head of a company that has stocks denies things, most likely these are the things that are true. "We are not sitting still, we do not lack resources, we do not lack imagination." I would translate that to "we don't want to sit still but we lack resources of some kind and we are so stressed we can't create new products"
4) The sales are fine but due to the economy crisis, AMD doesn't want to drop more money to new generation of graphics because things will look dim at the sales of 2013winter 2014?

 

[beetlejuicegr]

Aah and i want to add, i also have a 5870 card, 2,5-3 years now? The card is awesome, i disassembled the heatsink/fan to reapply thermal grease and use msi afterburner to keep the temps less than 70 at full overclocks. The only game that has bad fps and is unplayable for my standards (less than 30fps) is Crysis 3 at 1920x1200 on high detail.
I wanted to find another 5870 to xfire but guess what, they still sell at half their original price! This shows how good they are. And also shows that AMD along NVIDIA have some issues at performance the last 2 years...

 

[blazorthon]

Aah and i want to add, i also have a 5870 card, 2,5-3 years now? The card is awesome, i disassembled the heatsink/fan to reapply thermal grease and use msi afterburner to keep the temps less than 70 at full overclocks. The only game that has bad fps and is unplayable for my standards (less than 30fps) is Crysis 3 at 1920x1200 on high detail.
I wanted to find another 5870 to xfire but guess what, they still sell at half their original price! This shows how good they are. And also shows that AMD along NVIDIA have some issues at performance the last 2 years...

AMD and Nvidia don't have any performance issues... Older gen cards simply tend to have poor prices on their higher end models no matter how much time passes. The GTX 690 is something like almost twice as fast as the GTX 580, as an example, yet the 580 sure doesn't tend to go for half of the 690's price. The GTX 580 isn't much faster than a GTX 660, yet you can get a GTX 670, a superior card ,cheaper than a GTX 580. Exceptions are around, but they're few and far between. For example, the GTX 480 isn't too bad about pricing, but it's still more expensive than a cheap, similarly performing Radeon 7850 and the supposed pricing of the also similarly performing GTX 650 Ti Boost.

 

[xzendor]

Well If They're Ramping Up Production Of The 7000 Series That Should Drive Down Cost Making A 7970 or 7950 Much Cheaper To Own; And Unless Their New 8000 Series GPU's Are Significantly Faster This Should Make The 7000 Series A Great Value.

 

[renz496]

i believe what amd want is cheaper card to produce but keeps the price just as it is to get more profit per card. above else amd really needs more cash the more the better. not that they will going under but without much cash it might affect their R&D budget hence slowing down their development and product release. AFAIK AMD strategy with nvidia was to introduce new series/architecture and if possible new process shrink each year. when moving into new process node it seems amd has the advantage looking at past history but the plan eventually screwed up when TSMC skipping 32nm in favor to bring in 28nm on time. new series each year was suppose to outpace nvidia in terms of new product (and they always manage to bring out their latest gen a few months ahead of nvidia). but in the end they still not able to beat nvidia in discrete consumer gpu market (i think amd likes to have it 60% for amd and 40% for nvidia). since the strategy did not pull them ahead of nvidia i think they are switching their strategy to 1 generation per node shrink process.

this is just my opinion though

 

[eklipz330]

although it was impressive, nvidias 700 gtx left something to be desired. and the bump in performance was equivalent to what amd attained in driver optimizations for the hd 7000 cards over the past year, maybe less.
this could just be a move to keep sales up while they plan out their new cards. either way, a price drop is necessary. i need to get my hands on a 7970!

 

[eklipz330]

although it was impressive, nvidias 700 gtx left something to be desired. and the bump in performance was equivalent to what amd attained in driver optimizations for the hd 7000 cards over the past year, maybe less.
this could just be a move to keep sales up while they plan out their new cards. either way, a price drop is necessary. i need to get my hands on a 7970!