Report: AMD's Volcanic Islands GPUs Launching in October Without HD 8000 Branding
ChinaDIY has reported that AMD’s next-generation “Volcanic Islands” GPUs will be launched in October 2013.
ChinaDIY has reported that AMD’s next-generation “Volcanic Islands” GPUs will be launched in October at the beginning of Q4 2013 and will not be released with the Radeon HD 8000 series branding.
This report is, of course, unconfirmed and highly speculative since we don’t have any information on these upcoming GPUs except for the codenames found in a leaked Catalyst driver last month.
This being said, the October release date is certainly plausible since Nvidia has launched its new 700 series GPUs, and Roy Taylor (AMD’s VP of Global Channel Sales) previously hinted that Battlefield 4 (which releases on October 29) may be included in a future Never Settle: Reloaded bundle and would be an ideal flagship title for the company’s new graphics cards.
I'm sorry but are you high? They certainly dint have 2year old software and have made great strides in their drivers. The only issue is crossfire. And lets face it. Nvidia had to do a power hungry refresh of the 680 and call it a 770 just to lower the price. And it still only ties a 7970GHz, which is cheaper and has free games. Nvidia just can't get it together.
Obviously no one should believe anytime coming from China....
By fruits you mean X1 APU, PS4 APU, Trinity, Richland and Kaveri
I'm sorry but are you high? They certainly dint have 2year old software and have made great strides in their drivers. The only issue is crossfire. And lets face it. Nvidia had to do a power hungry refresh of the 680 and call it a 770 just to lower the price. And it still only ties a 7970GHz, which is cheaper and has free games. Nvidia just can't get it together.
Obviously no one should believe anytime coming from China....
Sea Islands the original refresh (HD 8000) was canceled apparently and now Volcanic Islands (HD 9000 entirely new architecture) has become a refresh. AMD's roadmaps are all screwed up on both CPU and GPU side of things.
AMD's mentality for GPU's is just like "we don't even care anymore" and when they do decide to release something it crushes Nvidia's rival.
at this point is it wrong for me thinking this rumor might statred by amd themselves to hold people back from pulling the trigger on competitor product?
By fruits you mean X1 APU, PS4 APU, Trinity, Richland and Kaveri
@BrianaDestiny, just because your name sound like a pornstar's one it doesn't mean that you are allowed to spam :-)
I'm sorry but are you high? They certainly dint have 2year old software and have made great strides in their drivers. The only issue is crossfire. And lets face it. Nvidia had to do a power hungry refresh of the 680 and call it a 770 just to lower the price. And it still only ties a 7970GHz, which is cheaper and has free games. Nvidia just can't get it together.
Obviously no one should believe anytime coming from China....
well the 7970 was released 2011 its 2013 now thats about 2 years old. Secondly its not cheaper then a 770 its in the same price range give or take 10 dollars as a standard hd7970. and a 770 is much better then the standard 7970. The 7970ghz edition starts at 450 which is 50 dollars more then a 770.
Crossfire is still riddled with micro-stutter while SLI has had that fixed for years. ATI Radeons are great from a production standpoint as they can crush it using opencl, however from gaming standpoint radeon is still day late and a dollar short on up to date drivers.
The free games is moot as if your buying a gpu of this size to play games you already own most if not all of the games they are giving away. Bioshock, farcry 3, tomb raider, sleeping dogs, not exactly brand new games, crysis 3 is good for benchmarking but is far a worthwhile shooter long term.
Because "Never Settle Reloaded" bundles started before the release of those games...duh. And if you don't own those games...well damn, that's a $150 savings on games. Yeah it's a little old but what better games have been released for PC in the last few months. Seriously when did people start complaining about free things?
I'm sorry but are you high? They certainly dint have 2year old software and have made great strides in their drivers. The only issue is crossfire. And lets face it. Nvidia had to do a power hungry refresh of the 680 and call it a 770 just to lower the price. And it still only ties a 7970GHz, which is cheaper and has free games. Nvidia just can't get it together.
Obviously no one should believe anytime coming from China....
I wouldn't exactly call them power hungry. My build with two 770s (yep no problems with sli) running at 1300mhz paired with 4770k @ 4.5, water cooling, etc. is pulling less than 600w from my UPS in BF3 - that's including 1x 120hz monitor. Under torture, just a bit over. You might be new to this, but for a rig this powerful that is very impressive. Don't think AMD is the model citizen for efficiency either. New flagship CPU TDP is staggering.
Oh and there is one Sapphire 7970 ghz that is cheaper (its on sale). All the rest are $50 more. So you got that going for you. Not sure where you get your facts.
Who on Earth really gives a about your co-worker's half sister? Next it'll be "my cat raised by a bottle of purfume".
By fruits you mean X1 APU, PS4 APU, Trinity, Richland and Kaveri
Which have made them how much money so far? FRUITS=PROFITS. So far NONE. They have trees with NO FRUIT so far. Since the purchase of ATI (heck before) they haven't made a dime, and have only lost billions. So yeah, NO FREAKING FRUIT yet. Perhaps if they stopped giving away games they would make money.
NV's market cap value now DWARFS AMD's. They now are getting close to matching AMD's revenue and don't yet sell CPU's. Just gpu's and socs. NV is about to enter the CPU market (servers and desktops/notebooks), with no debt and making profits which funds R&D not to mention 300mil from intel into 2016. The exact OPPOSITE of AMD's situation. AMD is going to have to borrow money again before Q1 to keep afloat (so said their CFO), which will of course have higher rates as they are junk status now. This is NOT a recipe for profits. Laying off 30% of your engineers is not a recipe for great products (it leads to crap drivers etc). Perhaps management wouldn't be saying they were 2yrs late to the ARM race (I say 3-4yrs, but whatever).
http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/financial-statements?symbol=amd
AMD 10yr summary. Lost 6Bil in 10yrs. That's bad right? Lost fabs. Lost austin land, lost cpu race, losing gpu race (no profit=losing, lost market share=losing). We can argue benchmarks all day, but at the end of the day the only thing that matters is market share and profits from that share.
AMD CPU=Losing Billions
INTEL CPU=making billions
AMD gpu=made >80mil.
NV gpu=making ~600mil+ (they are still losing money on Tegra so could be quite a bit higher but you get the point.).
AMD revenue sliding a billion a year for the last 3 years. NV growing. Same with Intel.
AMD share dilution 600mil to 700mil+ (since 2007). AMD assets from 12B to 4B over the same time. I can't come up with a good thing to say about AMD's financials no matter how hard I try and now the people investing in them are having problems (ATIC). They've poured so much money into GF/AMD they now have sent people to MONITOR GF business in house and have delayed Abu Dhabi plans for a fab. At some point if you're backers have troubles backing their OWN stuff, they will be forced to cut you off too. They have no choice.
I could go on but you should get the point already. The picture is NOT rosy.
By fruits you mean X1 APU, PS4 APU, Trinity, Richland and Kaveri
Which have made them how much money so far? FRUITS=PROFITS. So far NONE. They have trees with NO FRUIT so far. Since the purchase of ATI (heck before) they haven't made a dime, and have only lost billions. So yeah, NO FREAKING FRUIT yet. Perhaps if they stopped giving away games they would make money.
NV's market cap value now DWARFS AMD's. They now are getting close to matching AMD's revenue and don't yet sell CPU's. Just gpu's and socs. NV is about to enter the CPU market (servers and desktops/notebooks), with no debt and making profits which funds R&D not to mention 300mil from intel into 2016. The exact OPPOSITE of AMD's situation. AMD is going to have to borrow money again before Q1 to keep afloat (so said their CFO), which will of course have higher rates as they are junk status now. This is NOT a recipe for profits. Laying off 30% of your engineers is not a recipe for great products (it leads to crap drivers etc). Perhaps management wouldn't be saying they were 2yrs late to the ARM race (I say 3-4yrs, but whatever).
http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/financial-statements?symbol=amd
AMD 10yr summary. Lost 6Bil in 10yrs. That's bad right? Lost fabs. Lost austin land, lost cpu race, losing gpu race (no profit=losing, lost market share=losing). We can argue benchmarks all day, but at the end of the day the only thing that matters is market share and profits from that share.
AMD CPU=Losing Billions
INTEL CPU=making billions
AMD gpu=made >80mil.
NV gpu=making ~600mil+ (they are still losing money on Tegra so could be quite a bit higher but you get the point.).
AMD revenue sliding a billion a year for the last 3 years. NV growing. Same with Intel.
AMD share dilution 600mil to 700mil+ (since 2007). AMD assets from 12B to 4B over the same time. I can't come up with a good thing to say about AMD's financials no matter how hard I try and now the people investing in them are having problems (ATIC). They've poured so much money into GF/AMD they now have sent people to MONITOR GF business in house and have delayed Abu Dhabi plans for a fab. At some point if you're backers have troubles backing their OWN stuff, they will be forced to cut you off too. They have no choice.
I could go on but you should get the point already. The picture is NOT rosy.
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