High End 20nm GPU's

[TNA]

It is taking very long for 20nm high end cards to be released due to problems transitioning to the new process as I understand. 20nm was meant to be out last year.

Does anyone know any realistic date when we can expect the new R9 390 or GTX 880?

I am on a GTX 670 AMP edition at the minute which actually performs faster than stock 680 due to it having nice factory OC. But I want to go back to an AMD card. However I cannot justify moving to another 28nm card at the moment. Had 7950 previously. Feels like a waste knowing 20nm should be out soon.

Question is, when?

We should see a 50%+ jump in performance with the new 20nm cards I am hopeing.

I will likely get a R9 380x or 390 which should do the job well at 2560x1600. Then sometime in 2015 when the Dell 4k monitors which cost £2000+ drop to under 1k, I will whack in another R9 380x

 

[Stas823]

Few months ago it was early this year. Now it's the end of this year/ early next for 20mm
Apparently

 

[PhysicsMan94]

Q3 2014 at the earliest for 20nm, but most likely it'll be Q4 2014 when they are finally released.

 

[TNA]

I have a feeling it will be between September and November. Really hope they provide a good boost in performance and they are worth the wait.

 

[Gregster]

20nm is good for the go from TSMC in Q1 of this year, so once mass production starts, it could be Q3 for the high end cards.

 

[drunkenmaster]

AS per my post in the thread on the AMD dual card, duallie cards this late in the day from both companies, and Maxwell on 28nm all points towards 20nm very possibly being skipped by Nvidia/AMD, read the other post but to sum up. Most of the beneficial qualities required, like huge power reduction, are really coming with 16nm rather than 20nm, or a year later.

20nm is expensive for wafer starts, questionable benefit for higher end gpu's, and unknown yields currently but likely not great for 300+mm2 cores.

 

[TNA]

AS per my post in the thread on the AMD dual card, duallie cards this late in the day from both companies, and Maxwell on 28nm all points towards 20nm very possibly being skipped by Nvidia/AMD, read the other post but to sum up. Most of the beneficial qualities required, like huge power reduction, are really coming with 16nm rather than 20nm, or a year later.

20nm is expensive for wafer starts, questionable benefit for higher end gpu's, and unknown yields currently but likely not great for 300+mm2 cores.

Wow DM, that has got to be the shortest post I seen you make bro

Thanks for that info. Let us see how it goes.

 

[wazza300]

But I want it NOW!!!