AMD says Aloha

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AMD says Aloha

AMD’s Volcanic Islands graphic cards have been a hot topic since last week when it was revealed that the next generation GPU architecture could be headed for launch as early as Q4 2013. Today, Chiphell forum members have leaked what is supposed to be a architecture of the upcoming “Hawaii” GPU which is based on a 20 nano meter process.
AMD 20nm Volcanic Islands “Hawaii” Architecture Leaked?
The architecture in question is from the flagship 20nm Volcanic Islands chip “Hawaii” featuring 4096 stream processors. That’s almost double to what we get in today’s flagship Radeon HD 7970 GHz edition GPU. AMD hasn’t taken such a big leap since Radeon HD 5870 which double the stream processor count to 1600 compared to 800 SPs on the Radeon HD 4870. The switch from AMD’s VLIW4 (HD 6000 series) to GCN 1.0/1.1 (HD 7000) was more of a die shrink from 40nm to 28nm, but if this architecture shot holds any truth then AMD would not only be shrinking the die down to 20nm but also bring radical changes to the whole architecture

Read more: [RUMOR]AMD Volcanic Islands 20nm "Hawaii" GPU Architecture Leaked - 512-Bit Memory, 4096 Stream Processors

 

[betadyne]

If this is true, then its going to be the fastest GPU around.....Time to sell my titan....

 

[KWSW]

more compute power please... and hopefully Adobe will be nice to use opencl as well

 

[Ferolare]

AMD's Titan

 

[betadyne]

more compute power please... and hopefully Adobe will be nice to use opencl as well

Yes, Adobe has already announce support for OpenCL.

http://hothardware.com/News/Adobe-B...ws-Boasts-RealTime-Video-Editing-Performance/

Btw, no mention of clockspeed but if its the same as the 7970 GHz, then this card is easily matching 7990 performance. This means its going to be at least 30% faster than Titan.... Wow.....

 

[Godeau]

nice! hope the rumors are true

 

[NVDefender]

A bit too good to be true, but if AMD can really deliver, this is going trash nVidia's Titan badly.

 

[watzup_ken]

20nm, not sure if it will arrive in time for this year.

 

[khuin87]

AMD Radeon HD 9970 Specifications Speculations

9970? planned for a haswell/gtx700 rig soon but gonna endure longer, i hesitate too much when buying tech stuff

 

[betadyne]

So it will be called 9970 instead of 8970..... oh ok.....

 

[Humster]

Technology is hard to wait one. Today its the best tomolo, another guy comes out with something totally insane.

Buy only if you NEED the upgrade. Not want, that is how we should handle technology.

Being well informed is also a + point (>...>

The problem now is Haswell and GTX700 series is more or less confirmed. 9000series, Richland, Bulldozer is still a ?

 

[betadyne]

Technology is hard to wait one. Today its the best tomolo, another guy comes out with something totally insane.

Buy only if you NEED the upgrade. Not want, that is how we should handle technology.

Being well informed is also a + point (>...>

The problem now is Haswell and GTX700 series is more or less confirmed. 9000series, Richland, Bulldozer is still a ?

Richland is coming June. Confirmed.