confirmed amd has delayed sea islands

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Kippa

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Curious about one thing, will the new Nvidia gaming card have limited OpenCl processing ability like the previous Nvidia gaming card? I'd rather have an reasonable gaming card and have good opencl processing rather than an excellent gaming card with crap opencl processing, but chances are I am in the minority.
 
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dagamer34

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I still have a 6950 that I'm sitting on and have already decided to at least skip a generation (HD 7000 series) before buying a new card. Sigh.
 
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tulx

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I have two 5870'ies and am blasting through BF3 with 70-120 FPS, so I'm in no hurry to upgrade either - I can wait till the next generation comes out.
 
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Final8ty

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tulx said:
I have two 5870'ies and am blasting through BF3 with 70-120 FPS, so I'm in no hurry to upgrade either - I can wait till the next generation comes out.
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My 5970's are holding up well, so no hurry here either.
, but I will jump on the 8xxx.
 
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Arzachel

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BallaTheFeared said:
I'm confused about the last part, rumors (lol) were saying both Nvidia and AMD, now a single tweet was twisted into basically confirming said rumor. I'm still personally skeptical, that would make 7xxx almost a 2 year cycle, seems incredibly excessive. Let's pretend they went 23 months with 7xxx, how long would they go with 8xxx? I assume we still believe 8xxx will be a 28nm product right? We're into at least late 2014 for 20nm, possibly even longer "delayed"... Seems unrealistic, and dropping 8xxx in late 2013 then quickly bring out 20nm in mid 2014 seems unfathomable, the turn around is way too short.


Call it blowing on the ball, but I really would like to see it keep rolling!
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Don't trust a man driving a van with "free candy" written on it and don't trust a foundry to actually follow through with their roadmap :) My guess would be that 8XXX series are getting released around July and 9XXX series on the 20nm node being released very late 2014/ early 2015 making each generation last ~1.5 year.
 
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boxleitnerb

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If true, this is the best marketing slide ever:

n0NVmQ9.jpg

http://www.4gamer.net/games/135/G013536/20130208088/
 
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thilanliyan

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ShintaiDK said:
Since HD8xxx is rebranded HD7xxx. I would assume you mean HD9xxx.
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Hasn't this bit of FUD already been shot down?

The 8xxx mobile parts are rebranded 7xxx parts aren't they? The rebrand bit said nothing about desktop parts IIRC.

EDIT: I'm wrong, it is desktop as well but only OEM parts, so you can't buy those separately anyway.
 
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bigsnyder

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Like someone else said, isn't the 8000s rebrands of the 7000s? Not sure why everyone is getting all excited.
 
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jimhsu

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Hm ... currently on a 6950, and looking to get one of those 27" inchers some time soon. I'm wondering if I should wait until Q4 for an upgrade, or wait a bit longer for the 20 nm series (Q? 2014).

-- The 8xxx mobile parts are rebranded 7xxx parts aren't they? The rebrand bit said nothing about desktop parts IIRC.

Mobile and OEM that is.
 
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A card that has never been announced can't be delayed. So this is nothing more than website generated fiction.

Thracks said:
1. The 8000M Series is based on codename "Sea Islands" architecture, a mobile-focused product stack. It's in notebooks now because that's the way the market cycle fell this year.

2. For 8000 Series desktop parts, it's easier just to read Anandtech's article. The short version is that OEMs requested these parts be rebranded, and they are our customers, so we obliged them.

3. I cannot provide any update on any post-7000 Series products. 7000 Series is our focus for now.
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http://www.overclock.net/t/1347135/regarding-the-radeon-8000m-and-8000-oem-ces-announcements

Guys, AMD never confirmed anything. I wrote the tweet, we never spoke to WCCFTech, and we've never so much as hinted that a next-gen product would be coming this year. That part where WCCFTech claimed we've released reports on a next-gen was completely fabricated (¶2, first sentence).

We even announced at CES that "Sea Islands" was our mobile products, and reinforced that today's assortment of HD 7000 products at your local etailers are the products you can expect for months to come.

When I said that the HD 7000 Series is our focus for the foreseeable future, I meant it.

You can't delay a product that hasn't been scheduled, planned or announced. This "article" is rubbish.
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http://www.overclock.net/t/1358209/...ies-to-remain-primary-focus/150#post_19245105

AMD is organized by business units. Each department is essentially free to run itself like a business within a business. The fiscal health of AMD doesn't necessarily reflect on the health of any one department. Graphics is doing quite well, primarily because HD 7000 Series is a very strong and capable product. Why rock the boat? The dots you're connecting just don't lead where you think they do.
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Mobile 8000M Sea Islands chips aren't rebadges, they are new silicon as denoted by the die size. The rebadges were for desktop OEM only.
 
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