Monday, October 17th 2011
AMD's First 28 nm GPUs in December
It looks like AMD will have the symbolic achievement of launching its first GPUs built on the new 28 nanometer process in 2011 itself. Sources told Heise.de that AMD is working towards launching some of its planned 28 nm GPUs in the second week of December, 2011. One of these sources specifically named December 06. Details on whether the launched GPU will be for the mobile (notebook) or desktop (graphics card) platforms; or even whether it will use the VLIW4 or so-called 'NextGen' compute architecture, are not known at this point.
Another source reinforced the theory that the launch will be more about symbolism than volume manufacturing for sales. It's likely that a small number of these GPUs will be manufactured, just about enough to send to OEMs for their qualification, and perhaps even the media for published performance testing. We expect these GPUs to be lower-end or mid-range GPUs, and since AMD is reserving the NextGen compute architecture for only the high-end GPU part, these ones will most likely use VLIW4.
Sources:
Heise.de, MarketWire
Another source reinforced the theory that the launch will be more about symbolism than volume manufacturing for sales. It's likely that a small number of these GPUs will be manufactured, just about enough to send to OEMs for their qualification, and perhaps even the media for published performance testing. We expect these GPUs to be lower-end or mid-range GPUs, and since AMD is reserving the NextGen compute architecture for only the high-end GPU part, these ones will most likely use VLIW4.
46 Comments on AMD's First 28 nm GPUs in December
There's no room for even handed discussion on a tech forum :cool:
870/2600k comparison
www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/107?vs=287
870/920 comparison
www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/107?vs=47
Going between those links one can deduce that the fx8150 outperforms.
If g-cards get cheaper and more power efficient that is a good thing. I'll take it.
we've been stuck on 40nm for nearly 3-4 years now. 28nm is the first node change
people need to remember
4770 = 40nm
5000 series = 40nm
6000 series = 40nm
40nm node has been used across 3 generations of GPUs this is the first true node change in a LONG time, so we should see a nice jump in performance, something similar to the 4000 series to 5000 series performance jump.
The 4770 came out almost a year after the 4850/70 came out and only about 5 months before the 5850/70 so it's been about 2.5 years.
40nm will have been in use for 3-4 years.
April 28, 2009 4770 released
5 months later
September 23, 2009 5800 series released
14 months later
November 12, 2010 6900 series released
13 months later
December 2011, low end 7000 series released
Spring 2012 high end 7000 released
32 months that 40nm has been used up to low end 7000 series
march is the expected release for high end 7000 / GTX 600 series so add on 3 more months
thats 35 months or just about 3 full years add in the fact that availability is always short on launch means things wont be in full swing for a few more months after the fact
But where will they place this is the question... I don't see them starting a release of 7XXX… it could be for the mobile market. That has some merit as they have mobile Llano to take better than entry piece of the market, so it might be a shot in the arm to release a very performance oriented mobile to take away from Nvidia’s top mobile solutions. Have any Llano laptop mobo included a MXM connector? It would be interesting if they optimized the 28Nm part to Hybrid-Crossfire in laptops with discrete graphics, like say the HP dv6-6135dx if you could switch them out.
The last and what we'd hope is a 128-Bit 67XX... why couldn’t they do as a 6780 there no reason to hold to a conventional matrix at that point?
Personally, I think AMD should be rename as ATI. AMD's CPU has been an embarrassment for so many years now. ATI success and Intel's pot of money is responsible for saving AMD from total failure.
Intel can make CPUs but can't make a GPUs...
I also could be wrong so no need to quote me on this...;)
I'm thinking a OEM card, to help make FX really attractive for Acer, Dell, Lenovo.
AMD a "total solution provider".