Radeon HD 7000 Revealed: AMD to Mix GCN with VLIW4 & VLIW5 Architectures

[LordEC911]

As much as I hate doing it... I am about to pull a saaya.

VLIW4 is better than VLIW5 isnt it? Something about the extra overhead or whatever.

Compute capabilities.

But GCN sounds like a very big chip from his description and with a lot of potential. Let's hope the thermals don't spoil it.

Smaller than Cayman.

Also for the TL: DR Crowd:

It is more BS from BS.

A straight-up Cayman shrink shouldn't be too hard...

There is no straight Cayman shrink.

According to neliz at beyond3d, its rumored that we won't see an increase in transistor to performance from NV or AMD.

That generally doesn't happen unless something went terribly wrong the previous gen... *cough*R600*cough*
As you move away from fixed units to slightly more generalized units you have to, unfortunately, give up some transistor efficiency.

What happened to my XDR2?

It was never going to happen.

Plus, there isn't that much volume production of it and the prices of it are much higher than GDDR5... MUCH higher.

How about no volume production...
It is hard for a certain company to get "partners" to manufacture their product when they sue them left and right.

Here we go with the wild, over inflated hopes and dreams of some.....again.

Don't worry, you will get your card soon enough.

So it has been confirmed the 7970 has a 384 bit memory bus?

Pretty much, if you believe Charlie.

Neliz? That guy promised a bunch of stuff in regards to the Cayman GPUs verse the GTX 580 when it launched. I'm not really going to bother paying attention to his input after that.

Quotes please. He was pretty much on the money with most of his info.
When you have better tidbits than him please post them.

A rumor is never a solid fact.

True but some rumors are better than others.

so yur thinking the HD 7000 will be a flop?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...=1#post4999710

... and VILW4 in 28nm for the rest ? something new i have miss ? ( outside it is now confirmed, all the press will be brief during december )

No. Pitcairn is GCN. The midrange/lowend is what is questionable.
There are at least 3 28nm ASICs and the 40nm lowend rebrands are 40nm.