Hopefully the latter.
Will AMD give away 3 million games again so that people buy their cards ?
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AMD Hawaii GPU might launch on September 25
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Will AMD give away 3 million games again so that people buy their cards ?
Will AMD give away 3 million games again so that people buy their cards ?
Hopefully, its one of the reasons i buy AMD cards. I'm a gamer and the majority of games i play are all gaming evolved titles because they get all the best games.
The last Nvidia game i bought was Resident Evil 6 and that was a pile of turd. Shame as i loved Resident Evil 5.
The scaling for RE6 is not that good on multi GPU NVidia cards, now how did they fell that up yet Tomb Raider scales really well lol.
Terrible graphics, terrible optimization, terrible game. A 7750 could probably run it maxed out at 60fps without breaking sweat. Didn't know about the multi gpu side though, last time i played i had my 7970.
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Looks like HD 9XXX is going to be very nice. Hopefully as fast or faster than 780 / Titan. Would rather see new cards on 20nm now though tbh. Imagine power consumption and heat on 28nm is going to be a fair bit more than 7XXX.
Roll on 20nm GPU's.
Roll on 20nm GPU's.
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I'm not sure how it's terribly optimized if a 7750 can max it 60 FPS no sweat
Problem is that 20nm mass production is going to be at least the middle of next year, and will be expensive. If there are any delay problems (as there have been with the last few process nodes), it will be even later. AMD won't want to wait on a process that is late, or be in a position to backpedal and bring out a 28nm product late with only a short lifetime.
AMD are not going to gamble on having nothing until Q4 next year if TSMC have their usual problems. They got bitten last time by having to be conservative to get out early on 28nm, and before that got shafted by TSMC deciding to cancel a node and move to the next one.
It's been a long time since 79xx came out, and 20nm is too far away for this year, so AMD will bring out the best they can do on 28nm to last until end of 2014 when 20nm is relatively mature/cheap and can do mass production. It'll be be best, last hurrah of GPUs on 28nm.
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I'm not sure how it's terribly optimized if a 7750 can max it 60 FPS no sweat
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So could this be another situation where the mid range cards come first?
Q4 2013 'Maui XT' @ 20nm: R8 X870 and R8 X850.
The high end to come later to compete with Maxwell..
Q1 - Q2 2014 'Hawaii XT' @ 20nm: R9 X970 and R9 X950...
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Q4 2013 'Maui XT' @ 20nm: R8 X870 and R8 X850.
The high end to come later to compete with Maxwell..
Q1 - Q2 2014 'Hawaii XT' @ 20nm: R9 X970 and R9 X950...
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I don't image anything on 20nm until well into 2014. My guess is a larger die on a mature 28nm process.
Probably not very likely for Q4 this year but it could possibly be that around middle of next year they release mid-range cards first and high end later. Theres very mixed stories on TSMC, etc. one moment they are well ahead of schedule on 20nm, next they are struggling, then the next thing you know they are supposedly on timetable so hard to work out whats really going on.
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I'll be upgrading as soon as these hit the shelves.
After upgrading from my old system (fx4100@5ghz/ Gigabyte 7970 Ghz)
I'm seeing such a huge leap in performance in games, even with this 6950 my Fps are much higher across minimum, average and max , constant 99% usage too which is nice to see.
I just hope the prices aren't astronomical, unless of course the performance warrants it
After upgrading from my old system (fx4100@5ghz/ Gigabyte 7970 Ghz)
I'm seeing such a huge leap in performance in games, even with this 6950 my Fps are much higher across minimum, average and max , constant 99% usage too which is nice to see.
I just hope the prices aren't astronomical, unless of course the performance warrants it
We won't be seeing 20nm GPUs this year. Simple logistics. Add six months to your timetable and it's a plausible scenario.
In the meantime we have a 28nm refresh coming from AMD. Expect a shelf-life of around 9 months for these cards before 20nm replacement.
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Could be something like this if still on 28nm.
Personally looking forward to 20nm GPU's appearing, Pirate Islands and Maxwell are gonna be awesome.
Could be something like this if still on 28nm.
Personally looking forward to 20nm GPU's appearing, Pirate Islands and Maxwell are gonna be awesome.
Seems realistic. Not too far off what I've been expecting for a while (e.g. above). I still think they'll squeeze a little more out of the memory, though the performance improvement from doing so will be minimal compared to core clock increases.
I think the memory is likely to be somewhere around 6600mhz and the core maybe around 900mhz. 1000/1050 is too high for a core that big.