Thursday, August 20th 2009

AMD Evergreen Awaits Gala Unveiling Aboard USS Hornet

AMD wants to give its DirectX 11 compliant GPU lineup a gala unveiling on September 10. Codemaned "Evergreen", the family consists of an entire range of GPUs, catering to nearly all market segments. In the run-up to September 10, AMD EMEA and APAC will hold a series of briefings with its partners and/or sections of the media. It will be on the 10th, when a lot of things will go public.

Evergreen's unveiling will take place at the USS Hornet, a decommissioned US Navy aircraft-carrier turned heritage museum. The location and timing of the event holds symbolism with the Patriots & Heroes Week (September 5~11th). As for what happens after the 10th, it is indicated that performance evaluations, (p)reviews, could start pouring in two weeks later (around September 24). Stores will have stocked these graphics cards as they deck up shelves with Windows 7 copies.
Source: Bright Side of News
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46 Comments on AMD Evergreen Awaits Gala Unveiling Aboard USS Hornet

#26
TheMailMan78
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W1zzardMy personal USS Hornet pics:

www.techpowerup.com/wizzard/sf06/
Wizz you GOT to let me know if you are ever in Miami. I owe you some beer and some latin strippers. Trust me you've never had a lap dance until you've got one in Miami by a chica.
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#27
Hitman.1stGame
btarunr
bill_dit is funny they are doing it 32 miles from nvidia's headquarters :p
Santa Clara to Sunnyvale is what <5 miles?
it's should be something like this :D

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#29
Easy Rhino
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now the consumer just needs a use for these DX11 cards. i doubt there is one single software company out there who has a timetable for creating a DX11 game.
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#30
erocker
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Codemasters for sure is on board. There are others too.
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#31
Easy Rhino
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erockerCodemasters for sure is on board. There are others too.
im sure there are all on board. but none of them have a timetable for dx11 games. atleast they havnt announced any. btw, erocker let's play l4d tonight.
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#32
erocker
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DiRT 2, GRID 2, Crysis 2, Stormrise, and some others I can't remember are DX11. I will definitely play some L4D. Now L4D2 is a game that SHOULD be DX11.
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#33
Easy Rhino
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erockerDiRT 2, GRID 2, Crysis 2, Stormrise, and some others I can't remember are DX11.
well that is good. i had no idea. do they have any release dates? and are they going to be dx10 games that can "do" dx 11?
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#34
TheMailMan78
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Easy Rhinowell that is good. i had no idea. do they have any release dates?
Dirt 2 already has a demo on the 360. I bet the PC version is just waiting on ATI to ship.
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#35
Easy Rhino
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TheMailMan78Dirt 2 already has a demo on the 360. I bet the PC version is just waiting on ATI to ship.
cool! you will also be playing l4d tonight, right?
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#36
TheMailMan78
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Easy Rhinocool! you will also be playing l4d tonight, right?
I want to but I'm going to the movies. Going to see District 9.
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#37
erocker
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DiRT 2 PC - December 2009.



I'll be playing L4D tonight!
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#38
Easy Rhino
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TheMailMan78I want to but I'm going to the movies. Going to see District 9.
great movie! the CGI is really really good.
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#39
TheMailMan78
Big Member
All I know is this better be awesome. As a stock holder I can think of better ways to spend my money than renting an Aircraft carrier to debut a new GPU............Well maybe not. I just wish I could go.
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#42
PP Mguire
Easy Rhinonow the consumer just needs a use for these DX11 cards. i doubt there is one single software company out there who has a timetable for creating a DX11 game.
AMD was demonstrating their DX11 cards with the new Wolf game.
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#43
lemonadesoda
Unveiling at a "museum"? Does that mean the card is archaic?

And they are calling it "evergreen"! A card branded in nVidia's colour-space?

AMD Marketing Team to fall on swords immediately. If they dont do it of their own accord, they should be pushed.
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#44
techtard
They are using the term Evergreen to try to win over the enviro-tard crowd. Nothing to do with nVidia and it's green goblin schtick.

If this card is as good as people are saying it's gonna be, then we all win. If you are an Amd/Ati fan then your team put out a decent product and you can make a retard out of yourself on forums all around the internet, proclaiming you fanboi-ism to anyone who will listen.
If you like nVidia instead, you win too, because it will force team green to lower prices on their current cards, and debut their next gen for less than they would normally gouge you for.
And then you can go about internet forums making a fool of yourself by fighting over a brandname/product with the Ati/Amd tards.
Personally, I will just grab another 4870 or 2 and drop them in crossfire (trifire!) when evergreen forces the 48xx prices into the $100 zone.
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#45
ToTTenTranz
If the top-end cards really do consume 27W in idle mode, the term "Evergreen" is well deserved.
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#46
mdm-adph
ToTTenTranzIf the top-end cards really do consume 27W in idle mode, the term "Evergreen" is well deserved.
That would be nice -- would mean they'd finally fixed the problems with stepping down the clocks on GDDR5 without any flickering (not that I really care about flickering :laugh: ).
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