AMD Cayman info (or rumor)

[Pantsu]

Week 50 means a month of speculation and fanboys trolling and arguing. Yay.

[hurrdurr]

Why can't we find this "official information straight from AMD" at anywhere besides... Tweaktown?

[Oliverda]

Its official information, Cayman delayed to week 50 (13-19th of december). According to Sampsa. He said that no reason for delay was given, but assumed that DrMos component shortage info would be accurate.

Has he broken the NDA?

[migunani]

How hard it is to understand OFFICIAL INFORMATION STRAIGHT FROM AMD. Delayed to week 50.

sorry i couldnt find any official statement from AMD. Could your provide me a link, please?

[Lanek]

Why can't we find this "official information straight from AMD" at anywhere besides... Tweaktown?

Even Fudzilla have not report it yet ( but im sure they will make an article tomorrow the 69xx are delayed to march 2011 ( joke ofc ) ...

But well anyway, a 2weeks delay is not really dramatic ... this happend all times in all industry....

[Pantsu]

http://plaza.fi/muropaketti/muropake...an-viikolla-50
"Saimme juuri hetki sitten vahvistettua virallisen tiedon suoraan AMD:lta, että Cayman-grafiikkapiiriin perustuvat Radeon HD 6950- ja 6970-näytönohjaimet myöhästyvät alkuperäisestä julkaisupäivämäärästä, joka oli 22. marraskuuta. Uusien näytönohjainten virallinen julkaisu tulee tapahtumaan viikolla 50 eli 13. - 19. joulukuuta."

"We just confirmed straight from AMD that Cayman-based Radeon HD 6950- and 6970 GPUs will be delayed from the original date of 22. November. The launch of the GPUs will happen week 50, i.e. 13.-19. December"

So it seems AMD just wanted people to know they're still releasing this year rather than let the rumors fly.

[hurrdurr]

Even if they can't offer the performance, then AMD would put price pressure on the GTX580, they've done this for a few generations now and it is doing their market share quite good.

I however, see no reason to be "afraid" or "fear" anything right now.

Sit back, relax, take a cup of tea, things will unfold soon when the cards ship.


edit: Why is everyone assuming that Cayman is slower than an overclocked 5870? I thought the consensus was that it's nearing Hemlock territory, right on top of the GTX580?

I thought on B3D you said GTX 580 was trading blows with Cayman PRO aka 6950?

Was that based on some information or were you guessing?

Anyway from AMD's slides it doesn't look like 6950 could match 580 - that would make 6970 very comfortably over HD5970 which the slides disagree with

[Booj]

Please AMD make them scale well with ln2 and have a quadfire driver ready to go at launch for 3dmark ownage

[migunani]

http://plaza.fi/muropaketti/muropake...an-viikolla-50
"Saimme juuri hetki sitten vahvistettua virallisen tiedon suoraan AMD:lta, että Cayman-grafiikkapiiriin perustuvat Radeon HD 6950- ja 6970-näytönohjaimet myöhästyvät alkuperäisestä julkaisupäivämäärästä, joka oli 22. marraskuuta. Uusien näytönohjainten virallinen julkaisu tulee tapahtumaan viikolla 50 eli 13. - 19. joulukuuta."

"We just confirmed straight from AMD that Cayman-based Radeon HD 6950- and 6970 GPUs will be delayed from the original date of 22. November. The launch of the GPUs will happen week 50, i.e. 13.-19. December"

So it seems AMD just wanted people to know they're still releasing this year rather than let the rumors fly.

What?!! So this is true?!!
This is bad. Only a matter of time this information reaches Hitler. Which i believe will make him Angry!.
Oh... bad day.

[migunani]

Even Fudzilla have not report it yet ( but im sure they will make an article tomorrow the 69xx are delayed to march 2011 ( joke ofc ) ...

But well anyway, a 2weeks delay is not really dramatic ... this happend all times in all industry....

2 weeks is not delay. It is PUSHED BACK. yea, thats more appropriate.

[Sampsa]

Has he broken the NDA?

Thanks for your concern but I have asked approval from AMD to publish this information they announced today to press

[Oliverda]

Thanks for your concern but I have asked approval from AMD to publish this information they announced today to press

huhh...thank god...

[andos]

Then the rumored press conference in Beijing on the 29th could be right.

[JH_man]

If this is correct, the delay is only about 1 week:
http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/ite...-november-29th

jarle

[Heinz68]

Another rumor.
KitGuru says: "AMD HD6970 guaranteed to beat GTX580, according to sources."
They also promised to have more info in less than 12 hours

[cold2010]

AMD Radeon 6900 series - something to bite into after 13th of December?

Some glorious news has come to me in the form of glittery, amazing text on MSN from our own Shane Baxtor VGA reviewer extraordinaire.

Demand for the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series continues to be very strong, the ATI Radeon HD 5970 remains the fastest graphics card in the world and the
newest members of the AMD graphics family, the AMD Radeon HD 6850 and HD 6870, have set new standards for performance at their respective price
points, and are available in volume

With this in mind, we are going to take a bit more time before shipping the AMD Radeon HD 6900 series. As of today, the NDA lift for information relating to the AMD Radeon HD 6950 and HD 6970 will be the week of December 13th. We will be providing additional information on these products, including the exact date and time of the NDA lift along with samples in the weeks prior to launch.

This is direct from AMD - get your paws into it and start saving those dollars for just another month now!

[eXceeded]

So their current range is doing brilliant somehow means that we have to struggle with December (pre Christmas) deliveries hence not finding us until Q1 2011. I get it now .

[natty]

Dec 13? Yawn

[SKYMTL]

Its official information, Cayman delayed to week 50 (13-19th of december). According to Sampsa. He said that no reason for delay was given, but assumed that DrMos component shortage info would be accurate.

Once again from Charlie:

IT'S THAT TIME of year again, yes, November, time for new high end GPUs to bloom. Luckily, ATI, sorry, AMD, is right on schedule. Cayman samples are now at AIBs.

Yes, you heard it right, some AIBs have Cayman chips now, and if everything else holds true to form, they should be on the store shelves across the world in 2-4 weeks. The kits come with a Cayman and some 6Ghz GDDR5, so the memory clocks will end up between 5.5-6GHz.

There are a lot of really bad rumors going around the net right now so be careful what you believe. The two things that we know are true is the memory speed and that barring a last second glitch, you will be buying them before Dec 1. Everything else should be taken with a glacier sized grain of salt.

Who is right? Let's see.....

[Manicdan]

lol, according to charlie,
nvidia wont have the 580 out for a few more months
and ati has the 6900s out to everyone weeks ago (but we must all be in denial)

[Borden]

Please AMD make them scale well with ln2 and have a quadfire driver ready to go at launch for 3dmark ownage

I want see Macci coming back, benching with HD6970s to destroy the ORB

[tbone8ty]

I guess it's time for a thread for the upcoming Cayman and Antilles GPU. Saw this over at S|A by 265......... He/she has been pretty accurate in his info over the last couple years, and this looked pretty interesting.






http://www.semiaccurate.com/forums/s...&postcount=116

As a side note, I don't see a a chance in h3ll that intel will be able to keep up with AMD and Nv.

what about that one that was posted in october

[Sampsa]

Here is the full announcement:

"Please find an announcement from AMD below regarding the change of Cayman NDA:

Demand for the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series continues to be very strong, the ATI Radeon HD 5970 remains the fastest graphics card in the world and the newest members of the AMD graphics family, the AMD Radeon HD 6850 and HD 6870, have set new standards for performance at their respective price points, and are available in volume.

With that in mind, we are going to take a bit more time before shipping the AMD Radeon HD 6900 series. As of today, the NDA lift for information relating to the AMD Radeon HD 6950 and HD 6970 will be week 50. We will be providing additional information on these products, including the exact date and time of the NDA lift, in the weeks prior to launch."

http://plaza.fi/muropaketti/muropake...an-viikolla-50

[Carbon_Unit]

Once again from Charlie:



Who is right? Let's see.....

I'm going to infer by your post that you're saying Charlie is wrong, and Cayman is delayed until December or later.

[SKYMTL]

I'm going to infer by your post that you're saying Charlie is wrong, and Cayman is delayed until December or later.

See the post above yours. Looks like an official email to me....