New AMD GPUs will be out in 2013 afterall, Q3 (summer)

[blackened23]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2027...on-and-quickly-clarify-2013-radeon-plans.html

The rabble became aroused when Japan's 4Gamer.net published an interview with AMD product manager Devon Nekechuk. The details are a bit blurry, mostly because the Google translation of the interview isn't especially clear, but it appears as though Nekechuk said that AMD will lean on the current-gen Radeon HD 7000-series lineup throughout 2013, implying that the release of the Radeon HD 8000 series will not be a major focus for most of the year—though Nekechuk never actually says as much in the shoddy Google translation.

Nekechuk also provided 4Gamer.net with the chart below, which indicates that the Radeon 7000 series will be "Stable throughout 2013." Note, however, that the timeline ends with the third quarter, not the end of the year—and that the Radeon HD 7000 and 8000 series could both be available at retail simultaneously, as is often the case during transitions to new GPU generations.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=34614641&postcount=48

Deserves it's own thread though, this is great news (assuming the outcome is that in fact there will be new GPU's soon)!

 

[blackened23]

I don't see them beating Titan. Then again, I don't see AMD making an 800$ behemoth either. Anyway, not even sure what to guess as to the increase they'll get on the same node.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Hopefully they take GCN to 250w TDP with some refinements for power usage on their high end products.

I'd like to see more hardware and less clock speeds, as always because the threshold for clocks is pretty much already decided.

 

[blastingcap]

Doesn't contradict the TPU summary which was talking about the "bulk of 2013," not "all of 2013." You could have a Christmastime launch of HD8xxx and have both statements be true: bulk of 2013 driven by 7xxx with 8xxx launching sometime in late Q3 or sometime in Q4 of 2013.