New details have come to light regarding the flagship HD 9970 part from AMD.

[Twirlywoos]

New details have come to light regarding the flagship HD 9970 part from AMD.

Some new information has been leaked regarding AMD's HD 9970 GPU, the flagship part of the Volcanic Island series. According to Softpedia, the lineup of 9000-series GPUs will still launch this year.

The information revealed is that the Volcanic Islands GPUs will be baked on a 20 nm lithography and be designed to have Gate-Last transistors.

Specifications for the HD 9970 include 4096 stream processors, four geometry engines, 256 TMUs, 16 serial processing units, and 64 ROPs. Memory will be driven through a 512-bit memory bus, and GDDR5 memory.

While there has been no official word, it appears that the HD 8000 series GPUs will be skipped entirely for desktops.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AMD-Radeon-Volcanic-Islands-7790,22518.html#xtor=RSS-999

AMD Radeon™ HD 8000 Series Graphics (OEM)

Spoiler

http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/8000/pages/8000-series.aspx#2

 

[Twirlywoos]

No idea how relevant this is, but i'm looking at my Heaven Vally thread.

2x 7970 @ 1250 / 1700 / (2x 2048 SP's) = 4117

1x 7970 @ 1230 / 1794 / (1x 2048 SP's) = 2197

That's 95%+ GPU scalling

This spec also has +100% ROP's (64) / +34% Memory bandwidth (512Bit)

Added on are 16 Parallel Processing Units (no idea what that will do to performance)

And (add Shader Core optimisation?)

Its hard to say, but I am really looking forward to the end of this year....

Where is that AMD driver which is meant to give great Crossfire performance, reduced frame latency and stuttering? I read about it maybe a month ago being released at the same time as the 7990 but has it been released?