New details have come out from Nordic Hardware about the next generation of AMD graphics card coming out later this year. First off, let’s take a look at the mid-range cards that will be replacing the HD 6800 series.
The first major change everyone will notice is the long awaited move from a 48nm die to 28nm, bringing along with it the obvious benefits of lower power consumption and lesser heat. The increase in texture units and Radeon cores was to be expected, as was the resulting increase in bandwidth. While these upgrades seem incremental, the juicy bits were reserved for their flagship models.
The Tahiti chips will be based on the new PCIe Gen 3.0 interface, providing a significant boost to the already high bandwidth. Further improvements come in the form of AMD’s Graphics CoreNext GPU architecture and the new XDR2 memory from Rambus which is supposedly twice as fast as GDDR5 if their claims are correct. Many will remember Rambus causing a huge rucus a decade ago with suing various memory manufacturers and arguable claims of their ram being faster than DDR3, and of course their excusivityUnfortunately the Thaiti chips are expected to be out early next year, so we’ll all have to guess how well they would have performed when Battlefield 3 is out next month.
So far no exact release dates or prices have been announced, but we’ll keep you updated as more concrete details filter in.
About Taimoor HafeezFrom auditing to editing, I now test and analyze the latest gadgets and games instead of the latest financial statements. Both jobs are equally intense and rewarding. In my free time you'll find me raiding in WoW or engineering in TF2.
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