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

[Olivon]

You're too fast buddy ^^

Nice feature regarding XFire idle power consumption

[Vipeax]

http://translate.google.com/translate?langpair=auto|en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dona nimhaber.com%2Fekran-karti%2Fhaberleri%2Fiste-AMD-Radeon-HD-7900-serisi-icin-alti-cizilen-ana-ozellikler.htm

More Eyefinity stuff (totally hot and loving those changes).

[Lanek]

, this is only features, but this look good. thanks guys for uploading them.

[kaktus1907]

You're too fast buddy ^^

Nice feature regarding XFire idle power consumption

not as fast as Vipeax

Its me or thoes slides have absolutely nothing to do with the one we have seen from OBR and Don? ( maybe me, but the color scheme look different )

Anyway, this is only features, but this look good. thanks guys for uploading them.

It's you.. DonanımHaber's source is same with the name shall not be spoken..

if you are talking about the crippled tessellation graph it was obviously fake, he posted true and fake ones together..

[Lanek]

yeah i have correct my post, i was seeing it wrong, maybe i have watch to long the slides with the 28pages,.., ( you know the one with image of 1x1 cm lol ).. Its sunday and my brain is in wait mode.

[zalbard]

How many people are going to run 6 monitors / HD3D + Eyefinity combo? And if performance increase rumours are true then they will also have to buy 4 cards to get acceptable frame rates at such resolutions...
All these features but power consumption management look like a gimmick to me...

[Andrew LB]

yield are excellent right now...

They are not "excellent". TSMC's 28nm process just recently moved to volume production after production yields became good enough to turn a profit on produced silicon. Also, they're only running the FAB at a fraction of it's capacity to ensure quality wafers

[Pantsu]

Those Eyefinity improvements are certainly welcome and expected, as is HD3D Eyefinity and HD3D CF support. Personally I gave up on CF and am using standard resolution Eyefinity, so the only improvement looks to be the centered desktop. But those are driver improvements. 7900 has so far offered better idle power consumption and tessellation performance, and perhaps better cooling as well, according to these slides. I'd say that alone makes it a decent launch, even if the performance increase is not what the hype would have you believe. To me it looks like the chip is still fairly modest in size, and the only reason it isn't the normal 300 mm^2 is because of the memory bus. Remember, Cypress increased die size 263->334 mm^2 and had 125% more transistors, while this looks like it will decrease die size and up the transistor count only 65%. So it would be easy to say it will bring only half the performance increase of what 5870 brought, so 30-50% maybe would be my guess.

[kaktus1907]

cape verde 128 bit

http://www.rage3d.com/board/showpost...&postcount=370

[slaveondope]

^How cute. More curious about the 7770-7870 specs. Haven't heard much more about them.

[BoredByLife]

It's pretty insane, only 4 days to lauch and almost no decent leaks.

[Mech0z]

It's pretty insane, only 4 days to lauch and almost no decent leaks.

Have AMD confirmed that release date?

[mattlef]

Those Eyefinity slides seriously made me need to change my pants.
The fact you can create custom res and have different screen size configs is huge, especially for me as I now can go out and get a couple of 19in panels to go with my 24 and just map the res accordingly.

I cant wait for this card to launch.
The only "major issue I may have would be with length. I hope its shorter than the GTX580 Reference board.

[AliG]

Those Eyefinity slides seriously made me need to change my pants.
The fact you can create custom res and have different screen size configs is huge, especially for me as I now can g out and get a couple of 19in panels to go with my 24 and just map the res accordingly.

I cant wait for this card to launch.
The only "major issue I may have would be with length. I hope its shorter than the GTX580 Reference board.

lmao would that even be of any use to have something like 5 19" panels?

[mattlef]

lmao would that even be of any use to have something like 5 19" panels?

lol i see your point. But i mean from the photos you can see three different screen sizes. Maybe a few 19s in portrait or some 22s would scale better. But the idea that you can have three different sized panels displaying eyefinity is great news for me. This way I don't have to shell out for another 2 24" benQ panels just to experience eyefinity.

[AliG]

lol i see your point. But i mean from the photos you can see three different screen sizes. Maybe a few 19s in portrait or some 22s would scale better. But the idea that you can have three different sized panels displaying eyefinity is great news for me. This way I don't have to shell out for another 2 24" benQ panels just to experience eyefinity.

Haha ok I gotcha. I was just thinking to myself, well if he had a game on the middle three, the hangover II on the far left, and Reese Witherspoon on the far left...

[Mungri]

[QUOTE=Vipeax;5018093]


Bloody hell, I only just recently bought a new 1.5m wide Ikea desk!

....

Now I need something like 3m wide, but I dont have space for that

The thing is I currently have a 24" 1920x1200 monitor, plus a 19" 1280x1024. So if I was to buy myself a shiny new 27" upgrade, I could use all three different sizes in Eyefinity now?

[AliG]

[QUOTE=bhavv;5018371]

Bloody hell, I only just recently bought a new 1.5m wide Ikea desk!

....

Now I need something like 3m wide, but I dont have space for that

The thing is I currently have a 24" 1920x1200 monitor, plus a 19" 1280x1024. So if I was to buy myself a shiny new 27" upgrade, I could use all three different sizes in Eyefinity now?

I personally would just stick to a single 27" if I were you. That's just my own take, but you can see how the different resolutions of each screen slightly messes with the images. Just look at the yellow triangle that starts in the middle screen and moves to the left

[Mungri]

Or just stick to my 24" until it breaks. I only got a bigger desk so I could use 2 monitors which helps a lot in windows.

The backlight on my 19" died ages ago, so it looks a lot darker than it should, but I found a setting to increase the gamma separately for each monitor.

My Acer G24 runs at 30% brightness and 35% contrast, on default 50% its just blindingly bright. Using different monitors together isnt ideal because of how different the brightness / contrast can be.

[Ouchy]

The yellow triangle is for bezel compensation. You move it to the left or right to get it to line up. No doubt showing off the new "flexible" bezel comp which will allow for it to work properly with different sized monitors. I don't think it's indicative of how the final image will look.

[Vipeax]

I personally would just stick to a single 27" if I were you. That's just my own take, but you can see how the different resolutions of each screen slightly messes with the images. Just look at the yellow triangle that starts in the middle screen and moves to the left

Out of everything presented on that image, you mentioned the 1 part you should NOT be looking at on this photoshop image.

[LordEC911]

They are not "excellent". TSMC's 28nm process just recently moved to volume production after production yields became good enough to turn a profit on produced silicon. Also, they're only running the FAB at a fraction of it's capacity to ensure quality wafers

Depends on what your definition of excellent yields are... AMD's 28nm yields are better than early 40nm ramp yields which weren't as bad as everybody thinks.
28nm is going very well atm. As long as TSMC keeps increasing capacity like they promised this will be much more smooth than 40nm.

^How cute. More curious about the 7770-7870 specs. Haven't heard much more about them.

78x0, aka Pitcairn, should be 24CUs on a 256bit bus. Probably around ~3bil trannies and ~240-250mm2.
77x0, aka Cape Verde, should be ~12CUs on a 128bit bus. Probably around ~1.5b trannies and looks like ~130mm2.

[spursindonesia]

So, Pitcairn, HD 6970 like performance with >150 w TDP, and Cape Verde, HD 5770 or HD 4890 performance with >80 w TDP, right ?

[tbone8ty]

7870 should be a nice crossfire setup

[blindbox]

5x1 landscape setup!