Monday, January 25th 2010
AMD Plans Successors to Evergreen Series GPUs within 2010
AMD is just about complete with its top-to-bottom lineup of DirectX 11 compliant GPUs, whose series is codenamed Evergreen. Under this, the company has a GPU and its derivative targeted at almost every price point, from the entry-level Radeon HD 5450, to the fastest graphics card - Radeon HD 5970. With the onset of NVIDIA's first current-generation GPU codenamed Fermi, NVIDIA might attempt to reclaim the performance crown, and infuse competition in the higher-end segment. Currently there's no news of lower-end derivatives of Fermi.
Probably in response to Fermi, AMD is readying a new GPU architecture slated for release within this calendar year, in the second half. "We are ramping the ATI Radeon HD 5000 series now and look forward to refreshing the entire lineup in the second half of next year," said Dirk Meyer, chief executive officer of AMD, during quarterly conference call with financial analysts. His reference to "next year" was of next fiscal year (FY 2010), in context of him speaking at a quarterly conference call with financial analysts for FY 2009. The new series of GPUs is codenamed "Northern Islands". At this point in time, nothing much is known about the new GPU series. TSMC, AMD's main foundry partner for GPUs and motherboard chipsets, earlier claimed that it will be ready with a 28 nm production node by the end of this year. Whether the new GPU series makes use of the new fab technology is anybody's guess.
Source:
Xbit Labs
Probably in response to Fermi, AMD is readying a new GPU architecture slated for release within this calendar year, in the second half. "We are ramping the ATI Radeon HD 5000 series now and look forward to refreshing the entire lineup in the second half of next year," said Dirk Meyer, chief executive officer of AMD, during quarterly conference call with financial analysts. His reference to "next year" was of next fiscal year (FY 2010), in context of him speaking at a quarterly conference call with financial analysts for FY 2009. The new series of GPUs is codenamed "Northern Islands". At this point in time, nothing much is known about the new GPU series. TSMC, AMD's main foundry partner for GPUs and motherboard chipsets, earlier claimed that it will be ready with a 28 nm production node by the end of this year. Whether the new GPU series makes use of the new fab technology is anybody's guess.
42 Comments on AMD Plans Successors to Evergreen Series GPUs within 2010
Really, I think 5xxx is just optimised 4xxx with bells and whistles, and 6xxx is probably something new , that's why its is coming out so fast. I think AMD/ATI is doing a COD style production: two teams running so that one can improve the current lineup while the other gets ready the next gen.
2 primaries, 1 revision or 2 primaries 2 revisions.
their whole design methodology centers around doubling up specs. So the design is probably ready to go, it probably cost nothing to develop, and as soon as they get to 28nm they will double up again.
Do you sell your card after you are done with them? I know you must keep some cards for refresh tests, but do you ever sell any of them?
If not can we get a sexy hardware porno pic of all the cards?
Technology keeps advancing is a good thing for us power hungry guys. :laugh:
But I'ma grab a 5830/4890 so all's good. :laugh:
I prefer the generations where both companies release around the same time. =\
I think that's happened once in the past four generations lmao
X1800 was late, 2900XT was late, 3870 was a refresh like a year later, 4000... same time.? 5k early. lol
:(
hehe
Plus profit maximization (ahem g92) is not always the best long term strategy.
WHILE I wait, I think the 5770 will just do nicely, thank you.
64 ROPS, 3200 shader units, and 512-bit GDDR5 sound good to me :)
Maximization is as you said not always the best strategy, but we don't even know what Nvidia is going to do. There not exactly trailing in the graphics market, well except for market share.
As I said before, this is going to be a tweak, not a die shrink IMO.
Now it all makes sense.