Old rumour

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-HD-9970-Hawaii-Detailed-Volcanic-Islands-GPUs-Set-for-Late-2013-351659.shtml

Updated 

 
Chaos for many years has finally finalized, AMD include all next-generation consoles solutions 

to face the threat of GTX7 AMD apparently intimate knowledge of the system 

with the release of the new host GCN2.0 architecture also is no longer a secret 

message from the two channels will be in Q3 AMD Posted HD8000 series graphics cards 


sorted out by analyzing the whole system specifications 

HD8970 
XT 28nm process GCN2.0 Curacao Architecture 3 geometry engine 8 ACE2.0 55 million transistors 420mm2 
36CU 2304SP 144TMU 48ROPs 6GB GDDR5 384Bit 
1100/7000MHz 250W 
floating point performance: 5.07TFlops 
US599 4299元
VS HD7970GHz +35% 

HD8950 
XT 28nm process GCN2.0 Hainan architecture two geometry engine 8 ACE2.0 35 million transistors 270mm2 
28Cu 1792SP 112TMU 32ROPs 256Bit 4GB GDDR5 
1200/7000MHz 190W 
floating point performance: 4.30TFlops 
US399 2799元
VS HD7970GHz +10% 

HD8870 
Hainan Pro 28nm process GCN2.0 architecture two geometry engine 8 ACE2.0 35 million transistors 270mm2 
24CU 1536SP 96TMU 32ROPs 256Bit 2GB GDDR5 
1100/6000MHz 160W 
floating point performance: 3.38TFlops 
US299 2099元
vs HD7870 + 40% 

HD8850 
Hainan LE 28nm process GCN2.0 architecture two geometry engine 8 ACE2.0 35 million transistors 270mm2 
20Cu 1280SP 80TMU 32ROPs 256Bit 2GB GDDR5 
1000/6000MHz 130W 
floating point performance: 2.56TFlops 
US229 1599元
vs HD7870 +15%

http://www.chiphell.com/thread-755237-1-1.html

Hopefully this will put some price pressure on Nvidia

Yeah Nvidia has gone nuts with pricing. Titan and 780 are beyond awesome but price is ridiculous.

Hopefully this makes the 680 go down to below $400, 7970 below $300 and 780 near $500-550.

HD8970
XT 28nm process GCN2.0 Curacao Architecture 3 geometry engine 8 ACE2.0 55 million transistors 420mm2
36CU 2304SP 144TMU 48ROPs 6GB GDDR5 384Bit
1100/7000MHz 250W
floating point performance: 5.07TFlops
US599 4299元
VS HD7970GHz +35%




SOLD

I wonder when these will come out. I'm more then likely going back to AMD for the GPU next time. Thus far nvidia has not been living up to expectations for me.

How come? I recently switched rigs from one which had a gtx 670 SLI to one with 7950 crossfire and I wish I had my nvidia cards back. Crossfire X has microstutering issues and noticably drops more frames than SLI from Nvidia. As a single card I can see AMD being a better deal than Nvidia for sure but they have to fix multi GPU drivers for me to ever use AMD again. 

I have a GTX680 and thus far i've had issues with drivers from nvidia for a range of games. I also preferred the ATI control center. Overall the card isn't bad, but not sure that i'll stick it out with nvidia again.

I eliminated Microstutter by going Tri-fire. :)

I'll likely be picking up 3 of these a couple months after the launch for the early adopter tax to bugger off.

Interesting...

TriFire is a possibility on my board... Maybe I keep these and get a 3rd once people start dumping their 7000 series cards for 8000 ones. 

Anyone know when these cards will be available? We need competition!

(I mean, c'mon the 780 for +650€? The 7970 costs a bit more than 350 € and it's not twice as slow!)