[VC] AMD Radeon HD 9000 Series Launching in October?

[bill_d]

I'm thinking (the biggest they would do):
More shaders- 44CUs or double the SIMDs and TFUs per CU and go with ~24CUs(3072ALUs and 192TFUs) [depends on how much a diff the stronger FE makes]
Better frontend- the 4ACEs and 3geometry rumor thats been floating around sounds like a decent increase.
Slightly more ROPs- I don't see them going with 48ROPs unless they move to 512bit w/ 6ghz GDDR5(unlikely) or starve/make the ROPs more bandwidth efficient.
If they use 7Gbps GDDR5, that would offer ~27% more bandwidth allowing them to do the 40ROPs, a 25% increase.

Core clocks would be under 1ghz, probably around 900-950mhz(one would hope).

That should fit in <500mm2(imo 440-480mm2) and I would assume stay around 250-265w TDP.

That should roughly match Titan.

as a cfx user with a 1600p screen if i wanted to match titan i would have bought a titan but titan will not do 1600p with a single card reliably

i want a card that is very close to a 7990 so i will wait for 20nm on both camps

cfx and sli was fine with cards that were sub 450 bucks but at 650 to 1000 no, i'll keep my 7970 cfx and 680 sli till they can do it with a single card