Charlie says....southern islands

[GJ02]

Bit of info on AMD next gen cards aka southern islands, info from the world famous Charlie Demerjian

Info here

 

[uv]

lol, every 'CI' in the article is capitalised, eg capaCIty, effiCIent, offiCIal, CIpher

lolcharliedimerjian

 

[varkanoid]

expect more hi-jinks and mis-truths on Friday. Wonder what OCUK are cookin' up ?

 

[drifting]

any time between july 2011 and july 2012, I also could say that.

 

[straxusii]

To be fair he did say around August 2011, which no one could have predicted really, ahem

 

[arc@css]

Q3 onwards, mid - late Q4 at the latest I imagine.

 

[Rroff]

Be very very suprised if we see retail products before September 2011.

EDIT: Was a couple of weeks earlier than I thought so maybe late August, still would be suprised if it was before Sept tho.

 

[crYsis]

I hope it is next year to be honest, I want to get some use out of my HD 6990 before upgrading again.

Why not focus less on hardware and more on games that use our CURRENT hardware lol. Battlefield 3 seems to be the only 'next gen' game in the pipeline, bit dissapointing, hopefully Witcher 2 will take full advantage of Direct X 11 but will have to wait and see. I want something to test my card!

 

[Bodom]

Hehe dont think you will need to upgrade for quite awhile mate, no matter how good the next gen cards are

 

[arc@css]

I hope it is next year to be honest, I want to get some use out of my HD 6990 before upgrading again.

Why not focus less on hardware and more on games that use our CURRENT hardware lol. Battlefield 3 seems to be the only 'next gen' game in the pipeline, bit dissapointing, hopefully Witcher 2 will take full advantage of Direct X 11 but will have to wait and see. I want something to test my card!

I appreciate it doesn't have dx11 but I'd be interested to hear your experience with running something like Stalker Clear Sky (all settings to the highest), perhaps even modded if you have that much of an interest in games like this, that is.