AMD has released a roadmap in which it will remain focused on the HD7000 series for the upcoming year.
AMD has now confirmed the rumors that its next generation of GPUs will be delayed and instead will be focusing on its Radeon HD 7000 series for 2013. Disappointingly, the December 2012 reveal of desktop and mobile HD 8000 series GPUs is simply an OEM rebrand of its existing lineup and a true successor to the HD 7000 will likely only see release during Q4 2013.
In the meantime AMDs focus will focus on developing the 28 nm GPU that could be used in a next generation console, perhaps the PS4. AMD has also noted that it won't be leaving its customers completely in the dark and will be holding a number of aggressive promotional activities including the Never Settle bundle.
We even announced at CES that "Sea Islands" was our mobile products, and reinforced that today's assortment of HD 7000 products at your local etailers are the products you can expect for months to come.
When I said that the HD 7000 Series is our focus for the foreseeable future, I meant it.
You can't delay a product that hasn't been scheduled, planned or announced. This "article" is rubbish.
The problem that is facing the entire business industry is it's bread n butter philosophy, planne obsolence. The best right now, next year yesterdays news, so quick so fast, sometimes the cycles are only 8 months or so! It's crazy but feeds the fiscal quarter treadmill, so push back the 8k series, push back the 9k too, doesn't matter really because very few games even push the current 7970 and 680 at 1080p beyond their capability, even at 2560x1600 games like Metro & BF3 are the only ones choking them a bit more. So who cares, sure you'll get the latest 3dmark scores screaming high but that'll be yesterdays news too. And if you are into Rendering and 3D work, chances are you are going to buy a professional chip.
What they do need to do though, is to have aggressive pricing to help bring down the big upcoming Titan. If they manage to get the 7970 to something like $300, which its already pretty close to for some models, we'll have an interesting year from Nvidia and AMD.
The problem that is facing the entire business industry is it's bread n butter philosophy, planne obsolence. The best right now, next year yesterdays news, so quick so fast, sometimes the cycles are only 8 months or so! It's crazy but feeds the fiscal quarter treadmill, so push back the 8k series, push back the 9k too, doesn't matter really because very few games even push the current 7970 and 680 at 1080p beyond their capability, even at 2560x1600 games like Metro & BF3 are the only ones choking them a bit more. So who cares, sure you'll get the latest 3dmark scores screaming high but that'll be yesterdays news too. And if you are into Rendering and 3D work, chances are you are going to buy a professional chip.
If the Titan does wind up being a bit under the GTX 690 at $900, as rumored, AMD doesn't have to do anything as $900 is an insane asking price. It's too expensive to compete with any single GPU card and it will be substantially slower than dual GPU solutions available from AMD or Nvidia.
While we won't know for sure until the NDA gets lifted and reviews go live, Titan looks like a very niche card akin to the ARES II.
We even announced at CES that "Sea Islands" was our mobile products, and reinforced that today's assortment of HD 7000 products at your local etailers are the products you can expect for months to come.
When I said that the HD 7000 Series is our focus for the foreseeable future, I meant it.
You can't delay a product that hasn't been scheduled, planned or announced. This "article" is rubbish.
Maybe it's just the 8 different Call of Duty Games...the 5 or 6 different Battlefields...they're all the same, anyway. Played 'em once, played 'em all. Now if Microsoft would actually port the newer Halo games to PC, we'd have something.
Nowhere in the article does it back up your claims about performance.
Mars anyone?
HALO GHEYLO
The 7970 is still the top dog and there are very few games which stress it, and those that do will often run just fine with two of them in Crossfire. I'd rather that they bide their time and come up with something awesome than try and rush it to market ahead of the driver support like they did last time.
but if amd really focusing 7k series and only releasing the replacement towards the end of year it could screw up my initial plan lol. i was waiting for the next gen before upgrading my 2 years old 460. my plan was to get the next gen card or simply buy current gen card for cheap when the next gen hit like i did with my 460.