AMD 8000 Series Rumors

[John P. Myers]

The HD 8970 will be based on the Curacao XT core, which will carry 2304 stream processors, 144 TMUs, 48 ROPs, a core clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 6 GB of GDDR5 memory running over a 384-bit interface at an effective speed of 7.0 GHz. It could outperform the 7970 by ~35 percent. The card might have a TDP of 250W. $599

The HD 8950 will be based on the Hainan XT core. 1,792 stream processors, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, a base clock speed of 1200 MHz, and 5 GB of GDDR5 memory running over a 256-bit interface at an effective speed of 7.0 GHz. The card might have a TDP of 190W. Compared to the 7970, it will be about 10% faster. $399

The HD 8870 will be based on the Hainan Pro core. This core features 1536 stream processors, 96 TMUs, 32 ROPs, a base clock speed of 1100 MHz, with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory running over a 256-bit interface at an effective speed of 6.0 GHz. When pitted against the 7870, it might outperform it by a staggering 40 percent. Expected 160W TDP. $299

The HD 8850 will be based on the Hainan LE core, which will feature 1280 stream processors, 80 TMUs, 32 ROPs, a base clock of 1000 MHz, and 2 GB of GDDR5 memory also running over a 256-bit interface at an effective speed of 6.0 GHz. It is expected to outperform the 7870 by about 15%. Unsure of possible TDP. $229

Remember these are just rumors. There was talk not long ago of AMD skipping the 8000 series, which is fine by me since it's currently comprised of 100% renumbered 7000 series cards - all OEMs so consumers who know better won't complain - and going right to the 9000 series. Maybe that has changed, or maybe the card numbers listed above are off by 1000. Hard to say at this point. A release date was not mentioned, other than "sometime this year".

[DrPop]

If the HD 8970 outperforms the current 7970 by 35% or more, wouldn't that put it in Titan territory? And for $400 less?

[John P. Myers]

If the HD 8970 outperforms the current 7970 by 35% or more, wouldn't that put it in Titan territory? And for $400 less?

Yes it would

Just finished reading a re-confirmation for the info from the first post in this thread. It is actually going to be the 9000 series as i suspected, not the 8000 series. Specs and pricing are still reported as being the same as above. However the new bit of info i have is a release date: October.

Also, there's a high probability the dual GPU HD 9990 will be released at that time as well. AMD wants to bundle it with Battlefield 4, which comes out in October.

[zombie67]

I'm ready!

[DrPop]

I'm ready!

I'm waiting and hoping AMD gets this release right as well! We need competition here, and I'm sure at this point the future of their company depends on this kind of thing to go well for them. Titan-like compute performance for $600 instead of $1000 has me much more interested!

[John P. Myers]

I don't think they'll actually release the 9990 in october but I think its nice that they think they can The 9970 for sure though. Probably just be the 4 mentioned in the first post.

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