Saturday, July 2nd 2011
AMD Southern Islands GPU Codenames Surface
It was discovered that an early version Catalyst 11.7 contains entries for new GPUs, spelling out the possible codenames of upcoming AMD Southern Islands GPUs. Southern Islands is the next generation of AMD Radeon GPUs, which will possibly see propagation of VLIW4 SIMD design to GPUs in all market segments, and possible adoption of 28 nm manufacturing process. Moving on to codenames, 3D Center observes that the top of the line GPU is codenamed "Tahiti", there is a possibility of two single-GPU variants.
A graphics card that makes use of two Tahiti chips is codenamed "New Zealand". "Thames" is the codenamed of a possible low cost mobile chip, it could also be a performance chip. There's some uncertainty here. Not much is known about another chip codenamed "Lombok", either. Perhaps it's a performance desktop chip.
Source:
3D Center
A graphics card that makes use of two Tahiti chips is codenamed "New Zealand". "Thames" is the codenamed of a possible low cost mobile chip, it could also be a performance chip. There's some uncertainty here. Not much is known about another chip codenamed "Lombok", either. Perhaps it's a performance desktop chip.
71 Comments on AMD Southern Islands GPU Codenames Surface
AMD is Playing With My Feelings
oems see them, make machines.
They launch bulldozer does well in reviews, then all the mainstream to highend is filled instead of.
Launching bulldozer, only high end is there, and we're back to amd is tah shit! you needs it, and no mainstream is out there.
this is if bulldozer really is good :P
tahiti > cayman?
new zealand > 2 x tahiti > antilles?
thames > caicos?
lombok > barts?
wait a minute... lombok??
its time to swimming.. :toast:
We've been on this 6xxx series long enough!
No revolution with Southern Islands, but we may see a very nicely packed additional performance within same TDP.
semiaccurate.com/2011/06/29/amd-southern-islands-possible-for-september/
It's actually quite non conclusive and vague. Much of S/A's recent articles are about journalistic plagiarism so this might well be bait for some other online site to steal. As our beloved fish faced leader says...
ITS A TRAP!
So people from other far away countries do know of New Zealand.
AMD just isn't very good at making CPUs.