AMD Volcanic Islands "Hawaii" GPU confirmed

[JEMC]

Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

No, I don't have any proof.

In fact, I remember leaked specs from 6 months ago or even older that talked about it having higher frequencies and using less power, which was a bit hard to believe, but if they are also using bigger chips then its even harder to believe, don't you think?

But hey, I won't complain if they do it!

Nope. History says otherwise.

Radeon 5870:  2.1 Billion transisters, 850mhz core clock, 40nm.
Radeon 6970: 2.6 Billion transisters, 880mhz core clock, 40nm.

By those metrics, the 6970 should use significantly more power because it's larger and has a higher clockspeed, reality plays out differently.

But, we won't know for sure untill we have them in our hands, I'll be upgrading to it regardless.

I hope they can do it.

And you'll upgrade? Why don't you wait until their new architecture (the 9xxx cards will use GCN 2.0 which is "only" a revision if I'm not mistaken)?