| CGI-Quality said: especially given AMD's HD 8xxx series won't launch this year, which means NVIDIA will probably not upgrade anything again till Q4 2013. |
See my reply below. Regarding NV's move with GTX700 series, those cards have already been rumored to launch only by Q4 2013. This was reported weeks ago, way before the Twitter feed on HD8000 series. Sources were already hinting at no new 28nm parts (other than the Titan) from either AMD or NV until Q4 2013.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Radeon-GeForce-Delay-GPU-Next-Generation,20838.html
Due to selective journalism, the rumored timeframe for GTX700 launch hasn't been discuss despite the same sources pointing out on the same day that both HD8000 and GTX700 cards are likely MIA until Q4 2013.
| Turkish said: AMD confirmed they won't be releasing the HD8000 this year anymore so nVidia is also likely to introduce the GK110 GTX in Q4 or early next year aswel. |
No such confirmation was issued. This is a spin by news media for hits / regurgitation of old rumors that incorrectly predicted that desktop HD8000 parts would launch in the first half of 2013. AMD themselves never officially said when HD8000 desktop parts would launch in the year 2013. They only said they would launch in 2013, nothing more.
CES road-map for AMD last year:
Updated road-map this month shows HD7000 will be stable until Q3 2013, but it doesn't preclude AMD from launching HD8000 desktop parts in Q4 2013:
http://videocardz.com/images/2013/02/AMD-Radeon-January-2013-Slide-2.jpg
"I should note that [desktop] HD 8000 Series has never been so much as hinted at for a channel release. Anything to the contrary is an unsubstantiated rumor fabricated to drive traffic.” – AMD's Robert Hallock
More news came out this week that contradicts the rumors to begin with but the same media sites that published the original articles for hits would never admit they screwed up and fabricated/falsified info based on lack of any hard evidence.
PCWorld reached out to AMD in the wake of all the hub-bub to get a feel for the situation, and while there are still plenty of questions up in the air, I was told by a chortling AMD representative, "We will certainly have new [GPU] products in 2013." The company plans to clarify its 2013 plans for the Radeon brand later this week.
| Turkish said: Both GTX780 and HD8970 will have more than 7bn transistors and around 6TFLOPs. The difference with current enthusiast cards will be HUGE. |
Doubtful. All rumors thus far have pointed to GTX780 (GK114) and HD8970 being mild-refreshes with 15-25% more performance over their 28nm parts. The Titan appears to be the exception, serving as an Enthusiast's Limited Edition part. The monster cards you are talking about are probably 20nm Volcanic Islands and Maxwell parts. It's unthinkable that HD8970 would have 7 billion transistors on 28nm node when HD7970 Ghz uses more than 230W of power in games.
