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    Amd Volcanic Islands details

    We know that Hawaii is the flagship chip of the AMD Volcanic Islands series but we have new updates. There are three new names revealed by HWINFO which fall under the AMD Volcanic Islands series ? Tonga, Iceland and Maui. According to 3DCenter, the New Zealand chip which was supposed to make a debut with the HD 7000 series southern islands series but it got Malta instead. The AMD Volcanic Islands series would feature the New Zealand as the flagship dual chip card followed by Hawaii (High-End), Maui (Performance), Iceland (Mainstream) and Tonga (Entry Level).

    Read more: http://wccftech.com/codenames-amd-vo...#ixzz2bIpMQfjN

    Found a little more information here, also a VERY promising Firestrike benchmark screen shot from a member at Chiphell Forums
    http://videocardz.com/45324/possible...nds-hawaii-gpu

    According to this fudzilla article, Amd will price their newest top hawaii card below 600, undercutting Nvidia, and if the leaked benchmark is any indication, possibly outperforming them as well
    http://fudzilla.com/home/item/32199-amd-hawaii-will-be-priced-below-us-$600

    Update: 09/13/13

    Here is some more info

    "GPU-Z 0.7.3:

    Added preliminary support for AMD Radeon R7 240, R7 250, R7 260X, R9 270, R9 270X, R9 290, R9 290X"

    Also appears Vesuvius may be their dual GPU card

    http://videocardz.com/45569/amd-rade...aming-unveiled

    "It seems that someone from HIS made a huge mistake today by posting more information about the future AMD products.

    AMD Radeon R9 280X is a successor to Radeon HD 7970"

    http://videocardz.com/45608/amd-rade...b-gddr5-memory
    Last edited by Ace123; 09-13-2013 at 03:55 PM.
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