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

[DilTech]

Stevil can you ban him from the world?

Going back to the topic. To me it seems a really interesting and innovative card such the 5870 was, that's the reason why I'll buy it. Considering also that the GTX 6xx is three quarters away (I think)

...try 2 months tops. Where are people getting this 2-3 quarters stuff from?

It's due IN 1Q 12, NOT end of the year.

Also, the 5870 wasn't really innovative. It was, for all intents and purposes, a 4890 with DX11 tacked on and a higher shader count. That's what makes the 7970 interesting, because it's the first time AMD have REALLY stepped away from the architecture they used in the R600.

Take it with a grain of salt, and this is only unconfirmed information from one of my friend working in one of the AIB distro in my country -as a distribution manager, or something like that. GK 104, NVidia's answer to Tahiti, will be here no later than end of Q2 2012, but he didn't expect it arriving before late March or early April next year too. He's quite confident talking about it, and his info has been quite accurate AFAIK.

Then, if we're talking about GK 110, things get much more blur, since this will be one big monster chip, we're gonna see it when NVidia is confident enough with TSMC's 28 nm process. He wasn't all that sure, but his boss has said to expect this monstrosity at early Q4 2012 at the earliest (when everything went totally perfect), and can easily slip to 2013.

No solid info regarding peformance, but he expects GK 104 to be trading blow with Tahiti -and he's quite even handed to both IHVs.

Ofcourse, perhaps all of that are just silly misinformations, can't be assure of anything.

GK104 is the midrange part. GK100 is the monster part, and GK110 is likely the refresher part later in the year.

If Nvidia comes that late with their monster chip, AMD will have an answer ready.

Supposed leaked slides show the GK100 as around double the GTX580 (sometimes higher, sometimes lower). That'd put it at over 60% faster than the 7970. It's suppose to be here in Q1 2012. NVidia's midrange GK104 should be about 75-80% of the GK100 in terms of overall power, that's a scary situation.

AMD's answer to NVidia's high end has generally been a dual-gpu card. Anyone heard anything about a 7990 coming? Last few cards we heard about said card while we were hearing about the rest on the way, but this time all is quiet on the front. Is this chip too big to pull off that set-up?