[Update] We’ve got confirmation from AMD that the Evergreen cards are being shown this weekend, at the QuakeCon video game convention in Dallas, Texas.

The word is finally out. AMD will launch it’s much anticipated next generation graphics processors code name “Evergreen” on September 10th; ahead of Windows 7’s launch in late October..

For AMD, these 40-nm, Microsoft DX11-compliant GPUs will fundamentally change the graphics industry and give it a clear advantage over Nvidia, again!

The prior generation of ATI cards was such high performance and so cheap that they forced Nvidia to hastily put together competitive video cards.

Sadly, AMD’s Santa Clara, Calif., rival hasn’t shown much of its DX-11 chips yet. However, Nvidia might choose to show off its wares at its own GPU Technology conference at the end of September in San Jose.

The GPU market is finally kicking some tires, just in time for the holiday season!

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On board an old World War II aircraft carrier, Advanced Micro Devices executives introduced new graphics chips meant to give consumers a killer entertainment experience and deliver a big blow to rivals Nvidia and Intel.

The chip maker introduced a new generation of ATI graphics chips that will be part of desktops this fall and laptops early next year. Among the new features: one PC can power six different monitors at the same time, as illustrated in the ooVoo video conference pictured above.

The chip will drive the latest computers, but it should also give AMD a leg up on its rivals, who’ve fallen behind on their production schedules, said Jon Peddie, an analyst at Jon Peddie Research.

“At the end of the day today,” Rick Bergman, senior vice president of Sunnyvale-based AMD, said, “AMD will be the undisputed graphics leader in the world.”

The chip has 2 billion transistors on it. To put that in perspective, Nvidia’s monster graphics chip from 2008 had 1.4 billion transistors, and the original Intel microprocessor had 2,300 transistors. The advance of chip design and manufacturing — including a 40-nanometer manufacturing process — have made it possible to make such chips.

The chip can do more than 2.5 trillion calculations — 2.5 teraFLOPS — every second. That compares to 1 trillion calculations per second for AMD’s chip from a year ago. That chip is as powerful as the world’s most powerful supercomputer in the year 2000. It’s about 250 times more powerful than the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue, which beat the best chess champion in the world years ago.

amd-2Bergman said the ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology can power six displays with a single graphics card, using DisplayPort technology. That’s a big achievement because graphics cards have to put so much data on a single display that they have a hard time handling multiple displays.

With it, gamers can set up monitors side by side to get an immersive view of their video screens as they play the latest PC games. Business people can video-conference with different people and track different things as if they were in a control room. With four graphics cards in one PC, AMD can operate 24 monitors at the same time.

It can create images with 268 megapixels, where a megapixel yields a pretty decent image on a digital camera. Game players will be able to get 12 times the full high-definition resolution. With so much screen real estate, you don’t even have to scroll around to see different documents, Bergman said.

Jules Urbach, chief executive of special effects firm Lightstage and Otoy, showed a demo of AMD’s animated mascot character, Ruby, as she is rendered to look like a real human with the latest technology. Urbach said his team is creating special effects scenes for movies that extremely realistic, yet can be created with a single AMD chip. Crytek also showed how the graphics chip can render an immersive, hyperrealistic jungle in a video game.

Acer, Dell, HP, MSI and Toshiba are creating computers using AMD’s latest graphics chips. In response, Nvidia said in a statement, “The gaming world has moved to dynamic realism, which depicts actual physical movement more realistically than ever before. For example, the No. 1 PC game coming out next week is ‘Batman: Arkham Assyum,’ which takes advantage of graphics plus physics to give it extraordinary realism. Because we support GPU-accelerated physics, our $129 card that’s shipping today is faster than their new RV870 (code name for new AMD chips) that sells for $399.”

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Azza said:

More info on the mobiles graphics.


High end - code named Broadway

Broadway-XT Mobility Radeon HD 5870
Broadway-PRO Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Broadway-LP Mobility Radeon HD 5830

Only 5870 and 5850 can support GDDR5 memory, 5830 can only support DDR3 and GDDR3 memory, but the whole series CrossFireX technology support. So that means Crossfire graphics cards in your laptop! Only this series though.


Performance - code named Madison

Madison-XT Mobility Radeon HD 5770
Madison-PRO Mobility Radeon HD 5750
Madison-LP Mobility Radeon HD 5730

Only 5770 and 5750 can support GDDR5 memory, 5730 only support DDR3 and GDDR3 memory.


Mainstream - code named Madison (aswell)

Madison-LE Mobility Radeon HD 5650


Entry level - code named Park

Park-XT Mobility Radeon HD 5470
Park-PRO Mobility Radeon HD 5450
Park-LP Mobility Radeon HD 5430

These 3 have 65-bit memory interface and support GDDR3/DDR3/DDR2 memory.

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Spazzfish said:

Cry-Engine 3 for PC (First Time: Ati Eyefinity)

Watch from 1.34
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04dMyeMKHp4

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AMD confirms DirectX 11 games: Battleforge, Stalker: Call of Pripyat, Dirt 2 and Alien vs. Predator
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,...of-Pripyat-Dirt-2-and-Alien-vs-Predator/News/

CryTek's CryEngine 3.0 set to debut next month DX11 support.
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/9/11/cryteks-cryengine-30-set-to-debut-next-month.aspx

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fornowagain said:

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16780

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gurusan said:

Lets hope for a new reference cooling solution than the one they've been using on the 29xx/38xx/48xx

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The Asgard said:

I'm hoping for quieter and idle performance that matches Nvidia. It's a long time coming.

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reflux said:

^Agree 100%. They need to stop skimping on coolers.

But this is very exciting news. Glad I put off buying a new video card this week.....thought DX11 cards would be months off.

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