Digitimes - AMD to launch HD 7000 series next month

apoppin · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 7:03 am

http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20110411PD227.html

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With its Radeon HD 6000 series product lines fully filled, AMD is already in preparation for the next generation Radeon HD 7000 series (Southern Islands) GPUs and is set to mass produce the GPU in May this year.

which one?

HD 7450?
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grstanford · **Joined:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 5169

Either TSMC has 28nm running earlier than people thought they would (in that case expect Kepler from nvidia at about the same time (and people told me it was impossible for this timeframe for Kepler in an earlier thread........)) or Global Foundries has 28nm up and running and MAD is abandoning the TSMC ship.

Ocre · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:22 am **Posts:** 2234

drofnatsg wrote:

Either TSMC has 28nm running earlier than people thought they would (in that case expect Kepler from nvidia at about the same time (and people told me it was impossible for this timeframe for Kepler in an earlier thread........)) or Global Foundries has 28nm up and running and MAD is abandoning the TSMC ship.

GF is up and running but i am pretty confident they arent gonna be pumping out 28nm GPUs for AMD any time soon. What i read is things are merely on schedule. We are gonna see 28nm southern islands this year. the article say:

"set to mass produce the GPU in May this year."

that doesnt mean they will be on the shelf in may. Hopefully all goes well for both teams.

grstanford · **Joined:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 5169

You are right, if the GPU's start being mass produced in may, that puts them on the shelves 8 weeks later in late july/early august. If you allow a little more time for testing that is september, a time nvidia often likes to launch stuff.

Ocre · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:22 am **Posts:** 2234

I am looking forward to seeing what a 28nm shrink can bring to us. how dramatic will it be? Its been a while since we seen a shrink, how much will this give us?

What do you all think, is this shrink gonna be like the 65>55 or is it gonna be huge?

apoppin · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:27 pm

substantial i think

they will both naturally look to cut power but will probably continue to pull out all of the stops for their flagship GPUs

i'd like to see a single-GPU HD 7790 beat a HD 6990, quietly as an example
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Ocre · **Joined:** Mon Nov 22, 2010 5:22 am **Posts:** 2234

apoppin wrote:

substantial i think

they will both naturally look to cut power but will probably continue to pull out all of the stops for their flagship GPUs

i'd like to see a single-GPU HD 7790 beat a HD 6990, quietly as an example
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no way!
maybe the 7980 can get close to this, but i am not sure it will even beat it. But dreams can come true i guess!

apoppin · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 1:50 am

OOPS .. that IS what i meant
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damn typos

BoFox · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 2:05 pm

AMD Radeon HD 7000 Southern Islands GPU Code Names Revealed

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Rade ... 6061.shtml

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The four GPUs that were listed in the changelog of the HWiNFO32 v3.73 tool (the application is available for download here) are called Tahiti, New Zealand, Thames and Lombok.

SirPauly · **Joined:** Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:56 pm **Posts:** 818

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