AMD is getting into a bit of a pickle these days. They publicly stated that 2013 wouldn't see a new high end card introduced with the HD 7970 GHz remaining in the flagship position. So unless they were intentionally misdirecting the press and their customers, I can't see anything that would compete against GK110 this year.

Plus, after the disastrous HD 7990 launch, their driver team needs to focus on a number of key issues before they even think about announcing anything.

Personally I think this is damage control time since GK110 is pretty much untouchable right now.

Quote Originally Posted by Sushi Warrior View Post
First batch of Hawaii is already out of the oven btw.
"Already"? If they hope for a 2013 release, the first batch of ES cards would have to be "out of the oven" so to speak a good 4 months ago, if not earlier. For example, NVIDIA had working Kepler cards about a year before the GTX 680 was officially announced.

Quote Originally Posted by LordEC911 View Post
They have had silicon in house for over a month now.
There are at least 3 plausible rumors floating around out there right now but with a key source keeping quieat it might be awhile until things get semi-confirmed.

FYI- They are/were targeting a ~60% increase over Tahiti.
If the increase is only 60% over Tahiti, Maxwell will walk all over it from day one.