AMD Next Generation ‘Arctic Islands’ Graphic Cards Will Be Manufactured on the 16nm FinFET+ Node Fro

[Boomstick777]

So it looks like we have the first independent confirmation about AMD Radeon’s exact node. TSMC will be manufacturing the next generation AMD graphic cards (Arctic Islands and Greenland) on their 16nm FinFET node – something that was pretty much expected. It would appear however, that AMD will be reverting to Global Foundry’s 14nm FinFET process for its Zen based processors (via KitGuru). While this aspect of the news (Zen) is also not really surprising, I would urge users to take it with a grain of salt, since it is very clearly not confirmed yet.

Read more: http://wccftech.com/amd-arctic-islands-next-generation-graphics-16-nm-finfet-tsmc/#ixzz3jxVM99cq

TSMC’s 16FF+ (FinFET Plus) technology can provide above 65 percent higher speed, around 2 times the density, or 70 percent less power than its 28HPM technology.

 

[Dicehunter]

The Fury X launched literally roughly a month ago and there's already talk of new cards

 

[JediFragger]

Apart from everything else, let's hope that this is the process where AMD can finally sort out their clockspeeds. I know it's all relative but nVidia have been pummeling them in this aspect for years now. Imagine a strong AMD GPU architecture combined with a high clockspeed! Would be immense....

 

[JediFragger]

The Fury X launched literally roughly a month ago and there's already talk of new cards

These are gonna be 12-15 months away, just the hype train you can hear coming

 

[LoadsaMoney]

These are gonna be 12-15 months away, just the hype train you can hear coming

and i bet you still can't get hold of a Fury when these hit

 

[Joe!]

Noob statement: I have no idea what X nm means.

But woo, less is more right?

 

[Boomstick777]

These are gonna be 12-15 months away, just the hype train you can hear coming

 

[malachi]

The Fury X launched literally roughly a month ago and there's already talk of new cards

Well Windows 10 is out now so we need proper directx 12 GPU's to support all its bells and whistles.

 

[Joe!]

...

My pro paint skills yea

 

[FoxEye]

The Fury X launched literally roughly a month ago and there's already talk of new cards

Not everybody wanted a high-end, expensive card.

And of those who didn't, nobody wanted refreshes/rebrands for the entire rest of their lineup

I'd be excited for a genuinely new mid-range card that performs somewhere between a 970 and a 980.

But not for £crazy.

 

[nashathedog]

Not everybody wanted a high-end, expensive card.

And of those who didn't, nobody wanted refreshes/rebrands for the entire rest of their lineup

I'd be excited for a genuinely new mid-range card that performs somewhere between a 970 and a 980.

But not for £crazy.

Hopefully that is no ore than a couple of years away.

 

[~Mike~]

These are gonna be 12-15 months away, just the hype train you can hear coming

These won't come into existence, haven't you heard this forum says AMD are doomed.

 

[Seanspeed]

The Fury X launched literally roughly a month ago and there's already talk of new cards

That's a bad thing? GPU and silicon technology takes a long time to come to production viability. All the partners involved are planning way ahead. They'll have a good idea of what they're looking at well before any GPU's actually get sold.

We know they're waiting on HBM2 for these cards, so that's still about a year off just for that.

Hopefully that is no ore than a couple of years away.

We'll have that next year, easily. I think we'll see an upper mid range card that matches, if not bests, the 980Ti next year.

 

[fs123]

The Fury X launched literally roughly a month ago and there's already talk of new cards

No need to get upset. This is not AMD talking about their product but standard WCCF 'sources' creating hype and news for hits.

The 980 ti was only launched 2 weeks before Furyx but I don't see anyone getting worked up that Pascal is supposed to launch in Q1 2016 which is only 4-5 months away.

 

[Ash0787]

15 monthes is a long way off, is it possible that nvidia could beat them to it by several monthes ? that could be disastrous

Also just seen that people are already selling second hand fury x lol

 

[Marine-RX179]

No offense, but hasn't Nvidia already been talking (or hyping) about Pascal since June? AMD only just started to talk about next gen, and people make fun of them

 

[Seanspeed]

No need to get upset. This is not AMD talking about their product but standard WCCF 'sources' creating hype and news for hits.

The 980 ti was only launched 2 weeks before Furyx but I don't see anyone getting worked up that Pascal is supposed to launch in Q1 2016 which is only 4-5 months away.

Pascal will probably come later than that, unless they're going to produce like a Pascal-lite card, kinda like they did with Maxwell and the 750Ti.

Otherwise, they're going to miss out on stacked memory and hand a massive advantage over to AMD. Especially as we get into cards that are going to make 1440p and 2160p more and more viable for consumers, where that memory bandwidth advantage will undoubtedly show up in performance benchmarks.

I think Q2-Q3 for Pascal.

 

[jupiter_man]

I thought the next gen is coming out in 2016 Q1? Is it not?

 

[Marine-RX179]

My pro paint skills yea

Amateurs! This is how the professionals hype!

Forget the future, I'd be more worried about the present

 

[Gregster]

It is good that these things are being talked about. Hype gets people interested and whets appetites. I am looking forward to the die shrinks for both AMD and Nvidia and will be trying both.

On a side note, I do wish people would cut out all the baiting and grow up!