Report: AMD's Volcanic Islands to be Called Radeon R-200

[N.Broekhuijsen]

New information has surfaced regarding a new naming system for AMD's upcoming Volcanic Islands graphics cards.

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[Deleted member 217926]

Sure would be nice if both AMD and Nvidia would find a naming scheme they like and stick to it. It's getting confusing when they use each others past model names for new cards!

 

[016ive]

This sound reasonable as there are only two digits left to mark new series (8xxx-9xxx)

 

[rolli59]

Don't forget they both have gone through the 9xxx naming before.

 

[rolli59]

Don't forget they both have gone through the 9xxx naming before.

 

[Devoteicon]

I was kind of looking forward to the 4' long Radeon 39990.

 

[-Fran-]

Oh, man... There goes my "it's over 9000" joke 8(

WELL, THANK YOU AMD.

Cheers!

 

[aggroboy]

They could just remove the R9/R8, since model numbers 270-390 seems self-explanatory.

 

[JeremyCT]

A prefix comes before the root word/term. A suffix comes after. The 9 is a suffix.

I'm not sure I like the new convention. Too similar to nVidia's, and yet complicated in its own right.

 

[phatboe]

I Don't like this new naming scheme, how will I know if this is the current generation or a previous generation model?

 

[Pinhedd]

This sound reasonable as there are only two digits left to mark new series (8xxx-9xxx)

They already had popular Radeon 8000 and 9000 series cards. They've been off the shelf for more than a decade but I can see why they would want to avoid confusion.

Oddly enough, the internal codename for the Radeon 8000 and 9000 series GPUs made from 2001 to 2003 was "R200". It looks to me like they've decided to go full circle on the naming conventions.

 

[falchard]

I will definitely buy it if they call it the Arrrrrgh -390.

I wonder what would happen if they use a sane naming convention like G1M9, for Generation 1, Model 9

 

[The Indomitable]

This is more confusing than before...

 

[tomfreak]

Why cant they just use the 9000 series first b4 deciding to change the name.

Besides why start @ 200? not 100?

 

[hero1]

Why not start with R8/9-1XX and go from there for future naming headroom?

 

[CHINPOCLAVO]

I think the RADEON HD name was good marketing, now it becomes quite confusing.

 

[tbq]

A few generations ago I ran a Radeon 7000 video card in my main machine. A few months ago I upgraded my machine to a Radeon 7790. Unless they radically change things I might be getting another Radeon 7xxx series video card in another 10 years.

 

[faster23rd]

How about this for a naming scheme? Nouns for the card's targeted market segment which is preceded by adjectives for its performance within its segment.
Enthusiast: Behemoth
Mainstream: Brute
Entry: Fiend
And within the segment are adjectives such as Agile, Titanic, Turbulent. So when MSi makes a card, they would have a HAWK Titanic Behemoth or an Agile Fiend Power Edition. I know it's a mouthful but AMD's proposed naming scheme is already is, so I don't really care. )

 

[faster23rd]

How about this for a naming scheme? Nouns for the card's targeted market segment which is preceded by adjectives for its performance within its segment.
Enthusiast: Behemoth
Mainstream: Brute
Entry: Fiend
And within the segment are adjectives such as Agile, Titanic, Turbulent. So when MSi makes a card, they would have a HAWK Titanic Behemoth or an Agile Fiend Power Edition. I know it's a mouthful but AMD's proposed naming scheme is already is, so I don't really care. )

 

[faster23rd]

How about this for a naming scheme? Nouns for the card's targeted market segment which is preceded by adjectives for its performance within its segment.
Enthusiast: Behemoth
Mainstream: Brute
Entry: Fiend
And within the segment are adjectives such as Agile, Titanic, Turbulent. So when MSi makes a card, they would have a HAWK Titanic Behemoth or an Agile Fiend Power Edition. I know it's a mouthful but AMD's proposed naming scheme is already is, so I don't really care. )

 

[shikamaru31789]

I saw that the Volcanic Islands wikipedia page had been updated with this naming scheme a few days ago, with no source, makes me wonder if this rumor actually originated from some troll messing with wikipedia.

I guess this naming scheme is ok, but it does seem kind of complicated compared to the previous naming scheme. I can't wait for the new cards though, I really hope that AMD does a good job on price/performance, and I really hope they go in all guns blazing with some major Fall game releases added to the Never Settle bundle.

 

[horaciopz]

Confusing. I mean why don't just stick with AMD Radeon HD9xxx series, if everybody is already used to it since the ATI Radeon HD3xxx serires (some even before). Why change something that is alright? Don't fix what is not even broken.

 

[CaptainTom]

But I wanted an HD 9990

 

[ivyanev]

If I wait just a bit longer with the upgrade I will skip the entire HD family, as I currently have X1650. I personally think the prediction table is wrong - if such dense numbering is chosen - that will mean that interim products(say some cards with 30 at the end) wont have proper number, or if the marketing already know about the existence of such card - they should reserve space for it , which will drive speculation like crazy. I feel there will be multiple cards with 270 and 250 numbering , and the prefix will be used to separate them in performance groups(otherwise the prefix will serve no purpose)

 

[Ravyu]

r9 399 get ready