AMD Radeon HD 9970 Specifications Speculations

[InvalidError]

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

I'm guessing they fudged up their numbering a little too much with mixes of new and rebadged parts so they decided to use the 8xxx series for 7xxx respin OEM parts and start clean with 9xxx.

(At least I'm hoping they will quit slipping slightly refreshed previous-gen models into next-gen model numbers like they did with the 56xx/57xx and 66xx/67xx.)

 

[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)?

 

[jecho]

I hope AMD can have competitive prices forcing nvidia to not be greedy. $1000 for a titan? Wtf. And the 780 for 700-850 probably so that it does not cannabalize the titan.

 

[julianbautista87]

holly mother of god... 20nm? 4096 stream processors?? 512-bit ??? if this is true, I'll change my gtx 560ti for one of these monsters...

 

[hannibal]

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

If this is real? Seems to be too good, but if this is true and it is better than Nvidia Titan, it will be 999$ card at least, or it can be even more expensive if it is fast enough. If this is a little bit slower this cost 700-900$ depending on how much it will lose to Titan.
This definitely will be guite highend card so it is par with Titan and so will price. The strange thing is that this seems to be "too big" for normal AMD small and effiecient GPU core strategy... I don't swallow these specks yeat, but it will be prices according to Nvidia offering and Titan is the top level at this moment so that will be starting price point to this monster too!

 

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The strange thing is that this seems to be "too big" for normal AMD small and effiecient GPU core strategy...

The "serial processing modules" would be what draws most of my attention: the architecture looks like 8x 2int+1fp core arrangement. If those are x86-64 cores, that would make the chip look a lot like a souped-up PS4 APU getting passed off as a GPU.

 

[srsgang]

wow. must cost over $2000,-

 

[tomc100]

I just hope there are games being developed which will not only take advantage of this hardware but also pushes it.

 

[tbaracu]

i 'm sure that the fab will be Glofo on 20 nm planar, because TSMC announced 2 days ago that they will have in production 20 nm only in 2014 !
heheheh, Nvidia will not have now sources to steal technology of manufacturing just as they did in previous processes with the help of TSMC.

 

[tbaracu]

i 'm sure that the fab will be Glofo on 20 nm planar, because TSMC announced 2 days ago that they will have in production 20 nm only in 2014 !
heheheh, Nvidia will not have now sources to steal technology of manufacturing just as they did in previous processes with the help of TSMC.

 

[finder]

omg

 

[finder]

omg

 

[tbaracu]

Nvidia will really be in trouble if will have to develop on its own knowledge the 20 nm process of GPU for TSMC.
This speculating company in Intel's style does not deserve so much love as many people show.

 

[tbaracu]

Nvidia will really be in trouble if will have to develop on its own knowledge the 20 nm process of GPU for TSMC.
This speculating company in Intel's style does not deserve so much love as many people show.

 

[dalethepcman]

Now if AMD would jsut use this tech on their APU's...

 

[aberkae]

Finally a titan killer

 

[littleleo]

A lot of times these companies have have more then one team working on future products. It may be the team that was working on the 8000 series was not getting enough progress and were shut down. This may be just a paper release to try and lower excitement over the new Nvidia GTX 700 Series which is coming out in a 2-3 weeks.

 

[khaledegy200]

wow. must cost over $2000,-

cost over $2000 today but after 2 years will be 400-500$
and after 10 years will be thrown into trash

 

[InvalidError]

It may be the team that was working on the 8000 series was not getting enough progress and were shut down.

The 8xxx are there but most are just OEM-only refreshes of 7xxx parts, so nothing really worth talking about. Quite similar to how lower-end 6xxx (67xx and lower) were for the most part 5xxx refreshes.

 

[Marco925]

Skipping the 8000 series again? History Repeats itself!

 

[kog91]

This seriously needs to not be circulated anymore.
1) This is not a GPU design, it is an APU design.
The SPU's or Serial Processing Units are simply Bulldozer-esque "Modules".
It also has a northbridge and southbridge.
The memory units are for DDR3, not GDDR5 (which is what you would normally use for a high power GPU).
It has a HyperTransport bus. There is no useful purpose to have this on a GPU.
2) This is an Opteron APU.
The RAM is ECC which is not yet a mainstream consumer part.
It includes an ARM security module, which has been a part of Opteron CPUs for a little while.
It has platform management capabilities, only found in servers.
It has Advanced Server RAS (see http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/servers/reliability-availability-and-serviceability-for-the-always-on-enterprise-paper.html)

 

[kog91]

This seriously needs to not be circulated anymore.
1) This is not a GPU design, it is an APU design.
The SPU's or Serial Processing Units are simply Bulldozer-esque "Modules".
It also has a northbridge and southbridge.
The memory units are for DDR3, not GDDR5 (which is what you would normally use for a high power GPU).
It has a HyperTransport bus. There is no useful purpose to have this on a GPU.
2) This is an Opteron APU.
The RAM is ECC which is not yet a mainstream consumer part.
It includes an ARM security module, which has been a part of Opteron CPUs for a little while.
It has platform management capabilities, only found in servers.
It has Advanced Server RAS (see http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/servers/reliability-availability-and-serviceability-for-the-always-on-enterprise-paper.html)

 

[kog91]

This seriously needs to not be circulated anymore.
1) This is not a GPU design, it is an APU design.
The SPU's or Serial Processing Units are simply Bulldozer-esque "Modules".
It also has a northbridge and southbridge.
The memory units are for DDR3, not GDDR5 (which is what you would normally use for a high power GPU).
It has a HyperTransport bus. There is no useful purpose to have this on a GPU.
2) This is an Opteron APU.
The RAM is ECC which is not yet a mainstream consumer part.
It includes an ARM security module, which has been a part of Opteron CPUs for a little while.
It has platform management capabilities, only found in servers.
It has Advanced Server RAS (see http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/servers/reliability-availability-and-serviceability-for-the-always-on-enterprise-paper.html)

 

[kog91]

This seriously needs to not be circulated anymore.
1) This is not a GPU design, it is an APU design.
The SPU's or Serial Processing Units are simply Bulldozer-esque "Modules".
It also has a northbridge and southbridge.
The memory units are for DDR3, not GDDR5 (which is what you would normally use for a high power GPU).
It has a HyperTransport bus. There is no useful purpose to have this on a GPU.
2) This is an Opteron APU.
The RAM is ECC which is not yet a mainstream consumer part.
It includes an ARM security module, which has been a part of Opteron CPUs for a little while.
It has platform management capabilities, only found in servers.
It has Advanced Server RAS (see http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/servers/reliability-availability-and-serviceability-for-the-always-on-enterprise-paper.html)

 

[kog91]

This seriously needs to not be circulated anymore.
1) This is not a GPU design, it is an APU design.
The SPU's or Serial Processing Units are simply Bulldozer-esque "Modules".
It also has a northbridge and southbridge.
The memory units are for DDR3, not GDDR5 (which is what you would normally use for a high power GPU).
It has a HyperTransport bus. There is no useful purpose to have this on a GPU.
2) This is an Opteron APU.
The RAM is ECC which is not yet a mainstream consumer part.
It includes an ARM security module, which has been a part of Opteron CPUs for a little while.
It has platform management capabilities, only found in servers.
It has Advanced Server RAS (see http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/servers/reliability-availability-and-serviceability-for-the-always-on-enterprise-paper.html)