AMD preparing faster Hawaii GPU

[Gregster]

We’ve been telling you about faster Hawaii ever since we learned about XTX variant.

XTX, XTL or XT2, no matter how it’s called, is supposedly a faster Hawaii variant that is being prepped for few months now. Today Fudzilla reports AMD may finally launch this processor early next year, right before flagship Fiji silicon.

The new Hawaii-based graphics card would probably fall into Radeon R9 300 series, otherwise it wouldn’t really make any sense. Hawaii XTX was previously planned as Radeon R9 295X (this was the actual codename), but right now Radeon R9 380X is what we expect to see.

NVIDIA has completed its roadmap for this year. There are no new graphics card planned for this and next month. Maxwell GM200 is not expected to launch before Fiji, and GeForce GTX 960 was never planned for November (that’s why we never posted the rumors).

That said we shall expect at least 5 graphics cards in first quarter of 2015: R9 390(X), R9 380(X) and GTX 960. As for GM200 (TITAN II) we are still waiting for solid information.

Source: Fudzilla

http://videocardz.com/54065/amd-preparing-faster-hawaii-gpu

 

[Gregster]

I think this was posted in the 390X rumour thread, general feel is that it doesn't make any sense as it was already debunked ages ago by AMD and the source is Fudzilla.

Fair one. I was reading that thread and I am always up for some new GPU goodness and didn't see this posted. I thought only fair to give Whycry a shout as well, as his news is always nicked from others *cough cough wccf cough cough*

 

[Gregster]

But they made you buy a Titan Black if you wanted a 6GB Ti.

You had the option of the 6GB 780, so they didn't make you buy anything. You could buy a 3GB 780 or 3GB 780Ti or Titan/Titan Black.