What we know about upcoming AMD products...

[8350rocks]

I thought i read the HD 9950 will go toe to toe with the 770 and be 399.99

The pricing sounds about right...but I expect it will shakedown like this given the numbers expected of AMD's Curacao XT core:

HD 9970 > GTX 780 > HD 9950 > HD 9870 > GTX 770 > HD 9850 > GTX 760

Honestly the card that should end up going toe to toe with the 770 will likely be a HD 9870 GHz/OC Edition (For $299.99-349.99). Considering it will be a staggering 43% improvement over the HD 7870 (Not GHz or XT)...

I will have to track down the article where I read the specs and post the link...I want to say it was either bright side of news or tech report that posted the information.

 

[The Q6660 Inside]

This seems to be a classic "Southern Islands approach" to competing with nVdia. nVdia is dealing with a mediocre refresh of their architecture GTX 580 ("Fully unlocked Fermi")= GTX 780 GK110 in this case GTX 570 (Rebadged GTX 480 with a die shrink) = GTX 770, Kepler refresh is deja vu. AMD will launch the 9970 at ~500$, which will likely decimate the GTX 780 and then launch the 9950@~400$, that will likely be toe2toe with the 780 and best the GTX 770. The rest of 8350rocks' chart explains it all.

 

[Intel God]

This seems to be a classic "Southern Islands approach" to competing with nVdia. nVdia is dealing with a mediocre refresh of their architecture GTX 580 ("Fully unlocked Fermi")= GTX 780 GK110 in this case GTX 570 (Rebadged GTX 480 with a die shrink) = GTX 770, Kepler refresh is deja vu. AMD will launch the 9970 at ~500$, which will likely decimate the GTX 780 and then launch the 9950@~400$, that will likely be toe2toe with the 780 and best the GTX 770. The rest of 8350rocks' chart explains it all.

9970 is getting what 20% more stream processors? What size die?

 

[8350rocks]

HD 9970 = GCN 2.0, HD 7970 = GCN 1.0

Plus it gets more stream processors...

EDIT: That's why Nvidia is trying to rush out Maxwell, they didn't anticipate AMD going straight to the next GCN architecture so quickly...they were "caught sleeping"

 

[Intel God]

HD 9970 = GCN 2.0, HD 7970 = GCN 1.0

Plus it gets more stream processors...

EDIT: That's why Nvidia is trying to rush out Maxwell, they didn't anticipate AMD going straight to the next GCN architecture so quickly...they were "caught sleeping"

Amd will have the jump. Last i heard maxwell will be here by spring 2014

 

[cowboy44mag]

HD 9970 = GCN 2.0, HD 7970 = GCN 1.0

Plus it gets more stream processors...

EDIT: That's why Nvidia is trying to rush out Maxwell, they didn't anticipate AMD going straight to the next GCN architecture so quickly...they were "caught sleeping"

LOL that is what happens when companies who think they are really ahead of the game get caught sleeping😀 They figure they are so far ahead they don't have to try hard and release a minor refresh of what they already have, then along comes a company who is attacking from new directions and catches the complacent company napping. An omen of more things to come perhaps😀

 

[juanrga]

Rumour: Kaveri delayed to 2014.

Kabini "2.0" codenamed "Beema" and scheduled for 2014.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/161502-amd-kaveri-may-slip-into-2014-kabini-refresh-codenamed-beema