AMD Info! HBM-equipped Radeon this quarter! Zen CPU architecture in 2016

[JEMC]

haxxiy said:

JEMC said:

You mean this list, right?

*list*

I also find it odd, only 20 numbers to fit 4 cards. At least they list the Fiji cards as 8GB cards, because some sites today are suggesting that they'll be 4GB. The Tech Report did a podcast and talked about Fiji with David Kanter, who apparently has seen the actual cards and he seemed to suggest that they will be 8GB. Unfortunately, they didn't talk about the rebranding stuff.

I'm seeing it now, I had only read the article WCC Tech released today. I think it'll be something like that, not exactly like that, but yeah. Mostly because there's no way AMD will release an 8GB GDDR5 card, that alone would be +40W TDP over their already hot designs, not to mention the size of the GPU.

Maybe the R9 380s will be 4GB, same as Fiji with HBM? Except there could be also a dual Fiji with 8GB, whcih it may be what Mr. Kanter (had to check who is  this MF haha) was talking about.

Believe it or not, there are already 290X cards with 8GB of GDDR5.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sapphire-vapor-x-r9-290x-8gb,3977.html

And they don't use much more power (note that the review was comparing a reference 290X with the overclocked 8GB variant).

But what that shed tells me, however, is that AMD would be crazy to launch a top end card with less memory than a mid-range one. It makes no sense.