AMD Radeon HD 9970 Specifications Speculations

[N.Broekhuijsen]

New details have come to light regarding the flagship HD 9970 part from AMD.

AMD Radeon HD 9970 Specifications Speculations : Read more

 

[Matsushima]

Great to hear that it will be released sometime in 2013. I hope they will not rebadge the low-end (6450>7450/7470 6570>7570 5450>7350 6670>7670) models this time.

 

[sarinaide]

Twice the HD7970's resources on a more efficient node, then a whole lot of serial processors to go with it.
Shut up and take my money.

 

[wanderer11]

Does this mean 8xxx will only be rebranded for OEMs?

 

[Achoo22]

Absolutely nothing they leak is going to tantalize me until they start talking about pricing.

 

[Nephilim_17]

amazing!

 

[aggroboy]

The chip is called Hawaii, and the actual Hawaii Islands were formed by volcanic activity.
Hopefully Steamroller will be out around the same time to form a dream pair.

 

[Giordano Squadroni]

This is Amd 8000 series:
http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/8000/pages/8000-series.aspx#2

 

[alyoshka]

Are you sure about the news.....
Seems TPU's very reliable btarunr has a little something different to say about this and a little before you named if as the 9XXX Series.
http://www.techpowerup.com/183704/amds-answer-to-geforce-gtx-700-series-volcanic-islands.html

 

[Steveymoo]

Why bother skipping a generation naming convention? Is this meant to be a cheap trick to fool fools?

 

[blubbey]

So essentially it's a 7990 on a single GPU? Hopefully every other card is improved that much (mostly double in specs, like streams and TMU's). So iirc that'd be a 9750 being about a 7850 and a 9850 being about a 7970. Do want.

 

[khaledegy200]

According to this, the HD 9990 will have a 1024-bit memory bus ??!!!!!!

 

[blubbey]

@Steveymoo - maybe because the 8k series is (probably) just for OEM? Or maybe they're just skipping sea islands altogether.

 

[CaedenV]

Big steps are super important. 4K is coming very quickly, and we are all going to be needing much more GPU horsepower in order to use it.

 

[scook9]

I just hope they are putting as much effort into improving their drivers.....

 

[sarinaide]

The 8000 branding has been saturated by Richland, Mobile graphics and OEM parts.

 

[tbaracu]

i know that TSMC announced few days ago that their 20 nm will be ready for production only in 2014. So, now we are sure that the fab for GPU HD8xxx will be Globalfoundries with planar transistor

 

[x3style]

"While there has been no official word, it appears that the HD 8000 series GPUs will be skipped entirely for desktops."
BECAUSE IT HAS TO BE OVER 9000!!!!

 

[turtile]

This looks like a server processor to me... not a normal GPU.

 

[wdmfiber]

Steamroller, lol.
Have some respect for this GPU! Sandybridge(or newer) i7.

 

[shafe88]

"Volcanic Islands GPUs will be baked on a 20 nm lithography" Now only if they could get their CPU's and APU's baked on 20nm lithography to compete with Intel's 22nm processors.

 

[cats_Paw]

Did i miss the 8xxx Series?

 

[CarolKarine]

AMD goes two generations before a process change. this is on 20nm, meaning that it's a process change. there are 8xxx OEMs out there on 28nm, so this naming convention makes sense.

 

[segio526]

I wonder what numbers their GDDR6 cards will use. Are they going to go down the X path again (like the old Radeon X800)?

 

[mousseng]

Are they going to go down the X path again (like the old Radeon X800)?

Is it wrong that I'm more interested in this than any Volcanic Islands speculations? Don't get me wrong, I'm excited for new video cards (especially these), but rumors are rumors. I'm content to wait for real reports instead of getting all hyped up on "leaks."