Thursday, August 12th 2010
ATI Radeon HD 6000 Series ''Southern Islands'' Graphics Cards For Sale from November
Come this Winter, and things will heat up once again in the graphics card industry, with GPU vendors battling it out for the crucial Holidays shopping season. While AMD did not introduce any new GPUs after completing its ATI Radeon HD 5000 series launch itinerary, it did manage to grab significant amount of sales from its graphics rival NVIDIA. For this Winter, AMD and its partners will be in a position to launch the ATI Radeon HD 6000 series graphics processors, according to DigiTimes, citing sources from graphics card vendors.
It is also said that the Radeon HD 6000 series, codenamed "Southern Islands" (members of which are codenamed after islands in the Mediterranean Sea), will be built on TSMC's 40 nm manufacturing process. AMD had originally planned to build Southern Islands on TSMC's 32 nm process, but with the foundry skipping 32 nm bulk for 28 nm which will start operations only by the end of the year, AMD redrew its plans and stuck to the now-mature (stable) 40 nm process. Perhaps AMD learned a thing or two from a wide range of teething problems that plagued the 40 nm production line.
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DigiTimes
It is also said that the Radeon HD 6000 series, codenamed "Southern Islands" (members of which are codenamed after islands in the Mediterranean Sea), will be built on TSMC's 40 nm manufacturing process. AMD had originally planned to build Southern Islands on TSMC's 32 nm process, but with the foundry skipping 32 nm bulk for 28 nm which will start operations only by the end of the year, AMD redrew its plans and stuck to the now-mature (stable) 40 nm process. Perhaps AMD learned a thing or two from a wide range of teething problems that plagued the 40 nm production line.
137 Comments on ATI Radeon HD 6000 Series ''Southern Islands'' Graphics Cards For Sale from November
I hope ATI will get to keep as much market share as possible.
The ATI/AMD merger was a great success and I would like to see them rewarded for their business practices.
I wonder if ATI will claim the single fastest GPU title a second time this year.
If only Sandy Bridge comes up on November too...
6870 + EK block? YES PLEASE
As much as I am an AMD fanboy and excited to see these cards, this doesn't bode well for us the consumer. AMD has been doing too well against nVidia and if they get yet another generation-worth of victory over the competition, we are going to start seeing products that are more expensive and not as good. What with Apple switiching to AMD, and the Wii already solidly there, the only high-profile nVidia partner remaining is the PS3. Competition is awesome and nVidia has not been competing very well.
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I think AMD is planning to launch Entry & Mainstream Cards on 40nm by November and maybe they will launch High End Cards by 1 Half of 2011 on 28nm !
Right now I'm thinking it may be a little better, but the 7000 will be the one to get a more focused look at it's tessellation performance.
Oh well, even if it's not I'll probably be upgrading.
I'm surprised that TSMC even started a 32nm program... fabs tend to cut the process in half every time; 28nm is half of 40nm.
Nfags can leave this thread, I hope Nvidia doesn't drop their prices and you continue to get assraped by them.
Other than that guess I will need to find a home for my 5870 soon.......
Now people thinking of upgrading to a 460 might hold on to their money a bit longer to see what these can offer ...
nice ploy ATi ... :pimp:
i was almost settled on 5850. the 5850 price needs to go down if i even think about buying it.
I hope the 6 series is good though.:)
Heres the deal, if one of these can beat or come close my 470 SLI setup or if even two can beat my 470 SLI setup, im gonna buy one.(and i slap my word on that statement):)