Official Details on 28nm Radeon HD 7000 Coming Dec. 5
What will you be doing come Monday, December 5th? If you are like us here at Tom's Hardware, you'll be waiting for the official details on AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 7000 to be announced.
Based on information published by NordicHardware, AMD is set to officially announce details on its upcoming Radeon HD 7000 series graphic cards in London on Monday, December 5th. The Radeon HD 7000 series GPUs will be based on the 28 nanometer fabrication process, as mentioned in early October.
The cards will utilize a new GCN architecture, which is expected to be its biggest advancement in GPU architecture since Radeon HD 2000 series. Some of the questions on users' minds are: will the first release be the mobile or desktop version, and will it utilize PCI-Express Gen 3 and will it feature Rambus' XDR2 DRAM memory instead of GDDR5?
All these questions and more will (hopefully) be answered by AMD in a little less than a week in London, when the first official information will be released. Stay tuned as more details trickle out.
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Can't Wait! I'm hoping to get a 7950 which should absolutely slaughter my GTS 250 (~3.5x the performance) at roughly the same power consumption
totally awesome
I hope that means launch , physical or paper launch....
GCN = Game Cube?
Hopefully they release this in time for Ivy Bridge FTW.
AMD has done well with it's acquisition of ATi.
I absolutely love how AMD and Nvidia trade blows with each other.
I expect this to be much the same, the 6990 was amazing.
Obviously like everyone else reading this comment, I am looking forward to seeing some reviews and benchmarks/comparisons to the 6 vs the 7 series.
I wonder what Nvidia has as well, kinda stupid I just got my 580 and plan on getting another one within a few weeks, especially with these new cards just around the corner.. :\
Where is this chip being manufactured? TSMC or GF? As I am sure they stopped using GF. Well hopefully this will be worth putting some money back into their company. Hopefully they put towards research and their debt.
i agree ATI and Nvidia going back and forth is only helping us consumers. It almost is similar to the phone industry, every month seems to be a new gpu.
Is this their first 28nm?
Yeh, it's the first 28nm GPU from both AMD and nVidia. The GPU is produced at TSMC which got the 28nm process running just recently.
OH YEAH CANNOT WAIT!!! HD 7850 FTW!!! (caps use in intentional, i am excited for the new amd cards!)
The cards will utilize a new GCN architecture, which is expected to be its biggest advancement in GPU architecture since Radeon HD 2000 series.
I hope it's not just marketing bs
Is the xdr 2 vram is better than gddr5 ??
I think it will use pci-e 3.0 because the ivy bridge boards are coming with pci-e 3.0 and also it is backwards compatible with pci-e 2.0 . I can't wait to upgrade to a 7870 from my old 4650
Should be a VERY nice range of cards, Although for now I am more interested in replacing my CPU with something that isn't bottle-necking my 6850 lol
Is the xdr 2 vram is better than gddr5 ??I think it will use pci-e 3.0 because the ivy bridge boards are coming with pci-e 3.0 and also it is backwards compatible with pci-e 2.0 . I can't wait to upgrade to a 7870 from my old 4650
Wouldn't be expecting PCI-E 3.0 too much, The performance boost is extremely marginal and the current usage is nowhere near the performance ceiling of PCI-E 2.0 with the exception of some fairly rare peaks in usage.
if they hadn't acquired ati, amd would have gone out of business by now due to intel's cpu dominance.
I wonder if the 7000 series will take advantage of the new PCI-e 3.0 standard.
I'm excited as well. I'm planning to buy HD 6870, but I want to see the pricing of HD 7000 series when it gets released in my country. Who knows.
Benchmarks or it's nothing but column inches filler
i hope it not just mobile gpu
i am also excited because southern island (gcn) is amd's first original gpu architecture afaik.
haven't heard about gddr6 but heard that xdr2 is much more powerful and more power efficient than gddr5.
rambus is a massive troll ofc but if they make a performance-power-price effective ram, then why not use it.
and the new high end gpus are rumored to use 384 bit bus, means more memory bandwitdh for high res gaming with eyecandies turned up to 15!
imo amd already has the highest performing (abd the most power efficient) 256-bit bus gfx cards in the market today - the radeon hd 6970 and the dual gpu 6990. with the new 384-bit cards, they'll only get better!
Hello AMD,
Can the graphics team cross train with the processor team?
They making a terrific job in the graphics design, the processor team might learn something from them.
rambus is a massive troll ofc but if they make a performance-power-price effective ram, then why not use it
DNFTT
It's not just a saying, it's a way of life
AMD pretty much has to switch focus. They can no longer compete with Intel for the CPU crown anymore. Going where the market is and and focusing on their strengths well help bring AMD out from under the red. AMD has no other option but to sink or swim at this point. The new directions they are taken by focusing more on smart phones and tablets APU's where the market is will help them greatly. Focusing where their market is already strong in GPU's will help them greatly. Continuing to Focus on trying to top Intel's CPU's will put them bankrupt.
I'm sure any 7000 series will be out of my price range. I am just hoping it causes a ridiculous price drop for the 6000 series.
Very much looking forward to the 7000 series benchmarks.
my last amd card 6970. now its only nvidia
Where is this chip being manufactured? TSMC or GF? As I am sure they stopped using GF. Well hopefully this will be worth putting some money back into their company. Hopefully they put towards research and their debt. i agree ATI and Nvidia going back and forth is only helping us consumers. It almost is similar to the phone industry, every month seems to be a new gpu. Is this their first 28nm?
TSMC according to this
my last amd card 6970. now its only nvidia
My last card was a I DONT CARE you troll
UNLEASH, THE SECRET WEAPON!
Cool news. ATi is again first in process technology.
my last amd card 6970. now its only nvidia
My last nvidia card was gayforce FX5600. now its only ATi/AMD.
Lets hope it is not a major hardware revision in the same way as bulldozer... a disappointment.
Benchmarks or it's nothing but column inches filler
Lower NM means lower power consumption wich means you dont need a huge power supply to run sli or crossfire. Even if its a small performance increase u will end up getting more from your buck than current cards.
So Scumworks is that your way of coming out of the closet? "My last nvidia card was gayforce"
Correct, ADM/ATI stopped using global foundries due to low yields and power leakage in their manufacturing process
Where is this chip being manufactured? TSMC or GF? As I am sure they stopped using GF. Well hopefully this will be worth putting some money back into their company. Hopefully they put towards research and their debt. i agree ATI and Nvidia going back and forth is only helping us consumers. It almost is similar to the phone industry, every month seems to be a new gpu. Is this their first 28nm?
i am also excited because southern island (gcn) is amd's first original gpu architecture afaik.
according to the wiki its not actually much of a change from the 6xxx series.