Curacao XT 8970 pictured... courtesy of 4chan.

[LtMatt]

Let Nvidia go first with 20nm to see whats what and then compete with that.

The biggest mistake AMD made was going before Nvidia with 28nm.

The biggest mistake AMD made was not clocking the Tahiti cards more aggressively imo. Saying that though owning a card that overclocks massively is enjoyable as you can ramp up and down the performance when needed.

Nvidia were three months late with 28mn though so it was probably a good move for AMD to go first and snap up early adopters.

 

[Boomstick777]

That's the first time I've heard a 3960X being described as good "bang for buck"!

Haha, no I meant I got it way under it's retail price.. When I sell it will most likely get my initial cost back.. Some people seem to build a rig and then keep it for donkeys years. Problem is it's worth next to nothing that way. By selling parts as new parts come out you can stay at the high end and recoup most of the cost.

That's the way I do it anyway. I guess made easier as I am system builder so can use parts into builds etc. When not obsessed with a particular brand and your rig isn't like a girlfriend, chopping and changing parts is easy, especially when you get more for your money. Some people take it to seriously imho. I deliberately mentioned the Titan I bought as I fell for that marketing etc. Was to expensive, so couldn't enjoy it lol. If I can get hold of one for half the price in a few months than it would be ok.


@ Mankini1991 - You always cry about AMD launch prices then go and buy the cards anyway. Gets old..

 

[Diagro]

i dont care if the 8990 is a 1k gpu. i will have a well paid job by then and will afford one ;P

 

[flopper]

I do indeed.

old tech is well old...

 

[Boomstick777]

Poor Boom. Don't think we'll be hearing from him again in this thread .

Haha, thanks bud but na it's water off a duck's back , a lot of people here enjoy trolling way to much .

I don't know why me switching parts to get better deals is a problem for some.. I'm always building machines, I try and keep my main rig as decent prices as possible. The Titan was a big mistake, actually made me cringe looking at it with buyers remorse, made me queston PC gaming for a little while lol , but we live and learn don't we.. Well some of us do..

Take Mankini1991 for example, every year he crys about launch prices, and every year he goes out and buys everything including AMD's GPU's.. All the while he trolls me about stuff that I get at trade prices .

 

[WeedRamen]

Gah, I'm in two minds on whether to build my gaming PC now or wait for the new cards to release. Then again I'm Looking to buy a mid-range £200 ish card so I could be waiting a while potentially.

 

[bru]

Something worth mentioning Even though it will be obvious to some, buying things like a Titan/7990/3930x etc. Then selling them on so you don't lose too much, is completely irrelevant to the whole these things are too expensive, don't blame the retailer blame the manufacturer argument, because as soon as you buy it in the first place it is a sale for the manufacturer, regardless of how much you get for it when you sell it on. Same for DSR's it is still a sale at that price as far as the manufacturer is concerned, as I don't believe the retailer gets anything back for a DSR item other than what they can then sell it on for.

 

[humbug]

Just to expand a little with the DSR ^^^^

Its a good thing we have such consumer rights, but its wide open to abuse.

Buying a product, with the DSR knowledge, regardless of cost just to "try it out" or "well i'm not really sure I want to spend £1000 on this, but its ok, I can just send it back" is not cool.

Everytime someone does that it has to be sold on as a used part or B Grade, and someone in the chain looses money.

Don't buy these things unless you know it is something you want.

 

[bru]

^^^very true

 

[LtMatt]

Lol, did they really just call 4chan a Chinese website?

A Chinese web-site (link removed by LtMatt) has posted a picture of what is claimed to be AMD’s next-generation graphics card based on Curacao XT graphics processing unit. The graphics adapter promises to be powerful in terms of performance in video games and rather hot when it comes to behavior. The emergence of the photo proves that the new graphics solution from AMD

The all new AMD Radeon HD graphics card has two fans, a rather unprecedented cooling solution for a single-chip graphics card by AMD. Besides, the new Radeon HD “Curacao XT” has an 8-pin and a 6-pin PCI Express power connectors, something that clearly points to a high-end graphics solution. Finally, the new board has two CrossFireX connectors and thus supports 2-way, 3-way and 4-way multi-GPU technology.

Cooling solution of the new AMD Radeon HD “Curacao XT” graphics card employs numerous heat-pipes, an indicator that the novelty is rather hot. At the same time, two fans should either offer very high thermal performance or be rather quiet in operation. It is currently believed that the new graphics card has 250W thermal design power.



It is expected that the code-named Curacao XT graphics solution is AMD’s next-generation high-end GPU. AMD is projected to release code-named Curacao and Hainan graphics processing units that will belong to GCN 2.0 family of products in Q3 2013, according to a media report. The new architecture will have a number of enhancements, but the only thing currently known is that it will come with improved front-end (4 asynchronous computing engines [ACEs], 3 geometry engines) as well as increased amount of stream processors. Both Curacao and Hainan belong to Sea Islands family of GPUs, hence they do not feature advance heterogeneous compute capabilities.

The two chips are expected to be made using 28nm process technology, which is logical, keeping in mind that AMD’s manufacturing partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. will only start risk production using 20nm fabrication process in Q4 2013.

The Curacao XT graphics processor is expected to feature 2304 stream processors (36 compute units), 144 texture units, 48 render back ends and 384-bit memory controller. The Hainan is projected to have 1792 stream processors (28 compute units), 112 texture units, 32 render back ends and 256-bit memory controller. Both chips will share the same front-end (just-like current-gen Radeon HD 7900 and 7800 do) with 4 asynchronous computing engines [ACEs], 3 geometry engines, command processor, global data share and so on.

AMD did not comment on the news-story.

Source
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/graphi...Next_Gen_AMD_Graphics_Card_Posted_Online.html