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AMD Set to Introduce Radeon HD 7000 Southern Islands in Q2 2011, Rumor Has it.....:p
If you have been keeping up to date with the GPU world then you surely know these last few weeks have been pretty hectic, AMD launching its second generation DirectX 11 graphics card family while Nvidia seems to be set to do the same in just a couple of days, but things are going to become a lot more bizzare if we are going to believe some rumors that state AMD's HD 7000 graphics card series (code named Southern Islands) is set to launch in Q2 2011.

This latest development in the graphics card saga comes from a pretty shady website named, adequately enough, RumorPedia.net, that claims one source “close to AMD†told them Souther Islands GPU family will be released sometime in early 2011.

According to the same website, this actually means late Q2 or early Q3 2011, all depending on the 28nm manufacturing process employed for building this chips, AMD being set to release GPUs based on this new fabrication node before Nvidia manages to do so.

The rumors is also confirmed by one comment appearing on the same website, a user saying he can even disclose the names of AMD's future Southern Islands, if he wasn't under NDA that is (pretty convenient if you ask me).

All these infos, seems to point out that AMD is advancing pretty well with its future graphics card architecture, although I would suggest you to take this news with a huge grain of salt considering the sources cited.

However, there may be some truth to these rumors, since one can pretty much assume that if Nvidia has 28nm chip samples, AMD most definitely has access to the same manufacturing technology, making the 28nm HD 7000 graphics card family possible.

Furthermore, rumors that appear quite a while back, during this spring, called these Northern Islands graphics cards that we see today taking the shape of Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 a hybrid between the Southern Islands and the Evergreen architecture, suggesting that AMD was already pretty advanced in developing Southern Islands design.

End of it all, its pretty hard to tell if this timetable is actually accurate, but one thing is certain, AMD is not going to let Nvidia get past them and if one company has 28nm samples available then you can pretty much bet the competition has them too.
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AMD set to introduce 8000 series and Nvidia all set to compete with their 7xx by fall 2012.

This is obvious piece of news how the gpu cycle works. I guess i ll hold on that 6870 purchase i was about to make till next year but then my 555BE would be a bottleneck, oh wait theres some good cpus coming out in Q4 2011/Q1 2012, but i ll have to get another motherboard with a different socket and upgrade my ram too, this cycle never stops unless you grow out of it but i think we have reached a point where games do not push cards as much as they used to. In a couple of years the high-end gpu market will probably be dead since a mid-range card would be able to push most games to 60+ fps @ 1920, unless developers come up with something generations ahead à la Crysis or should i say good eye candy with poor optimisation but pushing the limits is risky for devs, who would want to spend $500 just to play a $50 game with 7 hr gameplay with stereotypical multiplayer. Only time will tell.
 
psyph3r said:
AMD set to introduce 8000 series and Nvidia all set to compete with their 7xx by fall 2012.
This is obvious piece of news how the gpu cycle works. I guess i ll hold on that 6870 purchase i was about to make till next year but then my 555BE would be a bottleneck, oh wait theres some good cpus coming out in Q4 2011/Q1 2012, but i ll have to get another motherboard with a different socket and upgrade my ram too, this cycle never stops unless you grow out of it but i think we have reached a point where games do not push cards as much as they used to. In a couple of years the high-end gpu market will probably be dead since a mid-range card would be able to push most games to 60+ fps @ 1920, unless developers come up with something generations ahead à la Crysis or should i say good eye candy with poor optimisation but pushing the limits is risky for devs, who would want to spend $500 just to play a $50 game with 7 hr gameplay with stereotypical multiplayer. Only time will tell.
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http://en.expreview.com/2010/11/06/rumors：amd-radeon-hd7000-coming-in-q22011/11570.html

Well said mate.. now its the time for the software (game developers) to pull the trigger..and i wish they make the gameplay time to be some 15hr+:p as my recent buys -- mafia2, kane and lynch2, MoH all were starting to look good but damn by that time the last chapter got loaded:(
 
psyph3r said:
AMD set to introduce 8000 series and Nvidia all set to compete with their 7xx by fall 2012.
This is obvious piece of news how the gpu cycle works. I guess i ll hold on that 6870 purchase i was about to make till next year but then my 555BE would be a bottleneck, oh wait theres some good cpus coming out in Q4 2011/Q1 2012, but i ll have to get another motherboard with a different socket and upgrade my ram too, this cycle never stops unless you grow out of it but i think we have reached a point where games do not push cards as much as they used to. In a couple of years the high-end gpu market will probably be dead since a mid-range card would be able to push most games to 60+ fps @ 1920, unless developers come up with something generations ahead à la Crysis or should i say good eye candy with poor optimisation but pushing the limits is risky for devs, who would want to spend $500 just to play a $50 game with 7 hr gameplay with stereotypical multiplayer. Only time will tell.
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i think a 555be is a bottleneck even today. no way less than atleast 3 cores will do nowdays with 4xxx series and above..
 
de.das.dude said:
i think a 555be is a bottleneck even today. no way less than atleast 3 cores will do nowdays with 4xxx series and above..
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You need to get ur facts right, there is not much of a performance jump from 2 to 4 cores (gaming wise), also u can always unlock the 555BE to a fully functioning quad. Besides the difference in performance will be such that it wont be noticeable anyways , whats the point if u can get 60 fps with a dual but 80 fps with a quad, in real world conditions it is more than sufficient for a good gaming experience and there is no need to spend extra on the cpu until games are really optimized for multiple cores.

Bit-tech had done a good article a while back based on cpu core scalability in gaming, here are the conclusions. There is barely a 5% performance difference between dual and quad in games. So a 555BE is good enough for a long time, cause i dont see a heavy game releasing anytime soon apart from Rage. fingers crossed for crysis 2

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2010/07/05/how-many-cpu-cores-do-games-need/1
 
Next year should see lots of DX11 titles and hopefully they will take advantage of being on PC and there will be lots of eyecandy.
 
psyph3r said:
You need to get ur facts right, there is not much of a performance jump from 2 to 4 cores (gaming wise), also u can always unlock the 555BE to a fully functioning quad. Besides the difference in performance will be such that it wont be noticeable anyways , whats the point if u can get 60 fps with a dual but 80 fps with a quad, in real world conditions it is more than sufficient for a good gaming experience and there is no need to spend extra on the cpu until games are really optimized for multiple cores.
Bit-tech had done a good article a while back based on cpu core scalability in gaming, here are the conclusions. There is barely a 5% performance difference between dual and quad in games. So a 555BE is good enough for a long time, cause i dont see a heavy game releasing anytime soon apart from Rage. fingers crossed for crysis 2
How many CPU cores do games need? | bit-tech.net
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555BE if you cant unlock, would suck in multi threaded games. and most games now a days are multi threaded. i dont think you can run GTA IV on that one with decent fps even with a 6890.
theres huge difference in gaming. just spend the money reqd to buy a actual quad, and then if you want to say your 555BE was better... i have nothing to say.
 
psyph3r said:
You need to get ur facts right, there is not much of a performance jump from 2 to 4 cores (gaming wise), also u can always unlock the 555BE to a fully functioning quad. Besides the difference in performance will be such that it wont be noticeable anyways , whats the point if u can get 60 fps with a dual but 80 fps with a quad, in real world conditions it is more than sufficient for a good gaming experience and there is no need to spend extra on the cpu until games are really optimized for multiple cores.

Bit-tech had done a good article a while back based on cpu core scalability in gaming, here are the conclusions. There is barely a 5% performance difference between dual and quad in games. So a 555BE is good enough for a long time, cause i dont see a heavy game releasing anytime soon apart from Rage. fingers crossed for crysis 2

How many CPU cores do games need? | bit-tech.net
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So, it means Quad core CPUs are available for more than 2-4 years and Game developers still designing games for Dual cores as the performance difference is merely 5%;)
 
this was pretty much expected, the 6000 series was a compromise, but calling the 28nm chips a refresh would have been nice,but then,they got a different architecture,might as well get a brand new series...
 
de.das.dude said:
555BE if you cant unlock, would suck in multi threaded games. and most games now a days are multi threaded. i dont think you can run GTA IV on that one with decent fps even with a 6890.

theres huge difference in gaming. just spend the money reqd to buy a actual quad, and then if you want to say your 555BE was better... i have nothing to say.
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well i had the 955be and now i unlocked this 555be and i see no difference at all. ofc intel quads are better but i have just ignored intel for the past 3 years. who would want to play a poor port of a game one year later after it launches on a console u already own.

p.S. 6890 ?! what is that
 
psyph3r said:
In a couple of years the high-end gpu market will probably be dead since a mid-range card would be able to push most games to 60+ fps @ 1920, unless developers come up with something generations ahead à la Crysis or should i say good eye candy with poor optimisation but pushing the limits is risky for devs, who would want to spend $500 just to play a $50 game with 7 hr gameplay with stereotypical multiplayer. Only time will tell.
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That is a very naive kind of thinking, who is to say that 1920 x 1200p would still be the standard by that time. Whose to say we won't have 3840 x 2400p or higher rez displays necessitating high end GPU's. 3 years back, you needed to spend 40k+ for a 24" display that ran at 1920 x 1200. Now you can get one for as low as 10k odd. For 40k+, you can get a 27" display that can do 2560 x 1600. Technology is always evolving. Its naivety to assume one will evolve while the other is at a standstill.
 
Lord Nemesis said:
That is a very naive kind of thinking, who is to say that 1920 x 1200p would still be the standard by that time. Whose to say we won't have 3840 x 2400p or higher rez displays necessitating high end GPU's. 3 years back, you needed to spend 40k+ for a 24" display that ran at 1920 x 1200. Now you can get one for as low as 10k odd. For 40k+, you can get a 27" display that can do 2560 x 1600. Technology is always evolving. Its naivety to assume one will evolve while the other is at a standstill.
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I dont see content going beyond that 2560 for quite some time thats why i said a couple of years, that and its all gonna end on 21/12/2012 anyways :p . In terms of games developers have just started goin 1080p on the consoles ,different story for the PC (plus there are fewer games made from the ground up for the pc nowadays, so a shitty port is what we mostly get). As for movies and stuff, i doubt there is going to be a change in standard so fast before even 1080p hasnt been saturated. Let them get over this 3d crap first, maybe then we will just start to hear about 4k resolutions in the next 4 years.
 
AMD Set to Introduce Radeon HD 7000 in Q1 2011 :/

WTF ??? HD 6XXX series debut is hardly noticeable & they come up with yet another Series ( i hope Nvidia's listening ) ! & wat now wid de 7000 series ? Direct X 12 ??? or maybe Teraflops of tessellation ? :p
 
AMD is doing right thing; introducing new product (graphic cards) within short span of time, HD will be the future. Now AMD just need to Cut its GPU prices at the launch of Nvidia GPU so ultimately it is the gain of Consumer.

So whether GPU or Quad Core CPU hardware is already there, it just needs support from Games Developers!!
 
psyph3r said:
well i had the 955be and now i unlocked this 555be and i see no difference at all. ofc intel quads are better but i have just ignored intel for the past 3 years. who would want to play a poor port of a game one year later after it launches on a console u already own.
p.S. 6890 ?! what is that
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you dont know what 6890 is and you have posted on a HD7000 thread. seriously.... i have nothing to say... :no:
ist supposed to lead the 6xxx series. or so the rumor has it. its even better than the 6870!! if ask what a 6870 is. i have one thing o say.... go die . :p http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_6870_Turbo/

and you have seen no diff between a 955 and a 555.... are you even human?
 
of course u cant see much difference when the 555be is unlocked because it is literally a 955 with 2 cores locked.

6890 i havent read about anywhere can u post a link, maybe u meant the 69xx series based off cayman cause barts (68xx) is still present in 2 iterations afaik.

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you dont know what 6890 is and you have posted on a HD7000 thread. seriously.... i have nothing to say... :no:

ist supposed to lead the 6xxx series. or so the rumor has it. its even better than the 6870!! if ask what a 6870 is. i have one thing o say.... go die . :p HIS Radeon HD 6870 Turbo 1 GB Review - Page 1/32 | techPowerUp
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waah u are judging performance on a mythical product. too good. links to 6890 or gtfo

That's twice in this thread i have to tell you to check your facts.

Cant find the link can you :D , oh wait you troll'ed with a 6870 review link and ran away
 
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