Report: First AMD 28nm GPU Due in December

[youssef 2010]

On the processor side, AMD was the first to integrate the memory controller onto the CPU die. It's Hyper Transport was a better solution than Intel's FSB. AMD never packed two single core chips in one package and called it a dual core processor. This was the Pentium D which introduced significant bottlenecks because the two cores had to communicate through the FSB which was extremely slow compared to AMD's real dual core solution. Intel later repeated the same thing with Core2Quad but without the performance bottlenecks so, I can't say anything bad about it. Also, AMD doesn't change sockets as much as Intel does.

 

[RoboTree]

[citation][nom]jrharbort[/nom]The fact that XDR2 memory is being used over GDDR5 has me concerned, mainly from the pricing aspect. While the memory is insanely fast, RAMBUS products have not been known to be cheap.[/citation]
It would be silly of them to make their products more expensive than their previous generation. Usually the new generation slips nicely into the previous price points.

 

[GaMEChld]

[citation][nom]RoboTree[/nom]It would be silly of them to make their products more expensive than their previous generation. Usually the new generation slips nicely into the previous price points.[/citation]
Can't take anything for granted though. We are now approaching power levels where the high tier products only make sense for extreme resolutions and multi-monitor gaming. If the top tier cards are needlessly powerful unless using those high end setups (which are rare configurations) they may see less sales, and have higher prices to compensate. @_@

 

[beachbod]

I think im going to try to avoid anything rambus..

 

[jchambers2586]

I am going Nvidia this time around. Tired of AMD driver software.

 

[Kileak]

[citation][nom]zloginet[/nom]hmmm... Economics 001, what the heck is that? you mean 101... anyone ever had cooking 001?[/citation]

Cooking 001 is reading the box on Kraft Dinner.

 

[geekapproved]

Nvidia shipping Keplar SAMPLES, is far from shipping retail product, probably 6 months.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]spp85[/nom]without ATI's support AMD would be DOOMED with there crap CPU's. AMD survives solely because of ATI's GPUs sales..........[/citation]
And the Opteron server chips, and low to mid-range desktop chips, in fact every division of AMD make wedge apart from the high-end enthusiast sector occupied by a small minority of geek gamers that spend big but not freqently and even when they do don't impact the wider market.
But yeah, AMD are a failing company.
/not

 

[eddieroolz]

This may be the first step in AMD's plans to steadily raise Bulldozer's performance by 10-15% per year.

 

[9_breaker]

inst it only 7900 models that are getting xdr2