Wednesday, July 3rd 2013
Radeon HD 9000 Series Arrives This October: Report
When AMD re-branded most of its Radeon HD 7000 series SKUs to HD 8000 series, for OEMs, we saw this coming from a parsec away. AMD's next discrete GPU family for the retail channel will be placed along the Radeon HD 9000 series, and it debuts no later than this October, according to a Guru3D report. Interestingly, the report states that the first parts in the family will be based on existing 28 nanometer silicon fab processes, and will be codenamed "Curacao" and "Hainan."
We've had our run-ins with "Curacao," from time to time. It's been rumored to be an upgrade of existing "Tahiti" silicon, with 2,304 stream processors based on Graphics CoreNext 2.0 architecture, 144 TMUs, 48 ROPs, and a 384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. The Guru3D report adds to that with the mention of an improved front-end, which adds four asynchronous computing engines (ACEs), and three independent geometry engines.
"Curacao" will make up most of the top-tier, likely Radeon HD 9900 series; while "Hainan" succeeds "Pitcairn," filling up the performance-segment. "Hainan" reportedly features 1,792 GCN 2.0 stream processors, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, a 256-bit wide memory interface, and fewer ACEs and geometry engines than "Curacao."
Source:
Guru3D
We've had our run-ins with "Curacao," from time to time. It's been rumored to be an upgrade of existing "Tahiti" silicon, with 2,304 stream processors based on Graphics CoreNext 2.0 architecture, 144 TMUs, 48 ROPs, and a 384-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. The Guru3D report adds to that with the mention of an improved front-end, which adds four asynchronous computing engines (ACEs), and three independent geometry engines.
"Curacao" will make up most of the top-tier, likely Radeon HD 9900 series; while "Hainan" succeeds "Pitcairn," filling up the performance-segment. "Hainan" reportedly features 1,792 GCN 2.0 stream processors, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, a 256-bit wide memory interface, and fewer ACEs and geometry engines than "Curacao."
81 Comments on Radeon HD 9000 Series Arrives This October: Report
Only 200 or so more stream processors. All in all the "reported" hardware side of curacao doesnt look to be very much of an improvement over the 7970. If this is true, it would be a small step up.
Computing power is like Dakka - You can never have enough computing power. You'll always need more. And there is no such silly thing as "enough computing power".
So to avoid more mass confusion HD9xxx ...
This time I will be waiting till 14/16nm shrink which will happen somewhere around 2015.
Also, we will soon Need Single GPUs which can Run Games at 3840 x 2160. The New Screen Resolution, which is Four Times as much as the current Standard, is more like a Revolution than an Evolution. This Stands in contrast to what every New Generation of CPUs and GPUs have to offer, which can be considered only as (small) evolutions Lately. I'm Interessed to See how this whole thing will Turn Out.
btw the dual GPU will be "9990" ... thats a lot of 9s ... :D
lol