AMD Radeon HD 8970 Desktop with GCN 2.0 emerge new specifications

Unlike Nvidia which these days is preparing to update its catalog of high-end desktop video cards with the GeForce 700 (based, however, on the "old" Kepler architecture), AMD has decided to stall still focusing on the highly successful line of Radeon HD 7000 .

This obviously applies to the retail segment as the company also OEM on the side of Sunnyvale in recent months had been presented with a series HD 8000 which in practice was nothing more than a re-branding of the old models. The "real" graphics card Radeon HD 8000 next generation, which for the reasons listed above at this point might be called HD 9000 will instead be based on the architecture GCN 2.0 to 28 nm and could come as early as the third quarter.

This is what emerges from a post appeared on chiphell.com which also shows the characteristics of the new flagship graphics cards AMD, in order: Radeon-HD-8970, HD- 8950, HD-8870 as well as HD-8850.

The course will spearhead the new Radeon HD 8970 (Curacao), a real monster of power on a single GPU with 2304 stream processors , 144 TMU, 36 CU, 48 ROPs and a clock speed of 1100 MHz . Onboard find 6 GB of GDDR5 memory with 384-bit bus and a frequency of 7 GHz, all for TDP of 250 watts, at a cost of 599 dollars and a performance gain of 35% compared to the Radeon HD 7970.

In second place was the Radeon HD 8950 (Hainan) with a GPU with 1792 stream processors, 112 TMU, 32 ROP, GDDR5 memory with 256-bit bus. In this case, the GPU runs at 1200 MHz, 4 GB of memory to 7 GHz with a TDP of only 190 watts and cost $ 399. This will also be faster than the Radeon HD 7970 by 10%.

We then go to the Radeon HD 8870 will be more powerful than the current HD 7870 up to 40% with a cost of $ 299. The GPU, set at 1.1 GHz, will have 32 ROPs, 24 CU, 1,536 stream processors and 2GB of GDDR5 memory with 256-bit bus and a frequency of 6 GHz TDP shall be 160 watts.

Finally, the HD 8850 , for the mainstream, equipped with 1280 stream processors, 20 CU, 80 TMU, 32 ROP and 2GB of memory with 256-bit interface. The frequencies will be 1 GHz to 6 GHz for the GPU and memory, set to 130W TDP. This card will be faster than current HD 7870 by about 15% and will cost $ 229.

In short, AMD aims to sharpen your weapons and extreme end where the GeForce GTX Titan currently stands in terms of computing power.

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