AMD Teases Upcoming Video Card
by Ryan Smith on May 22, 2015 5:15 PM EST
Between Financial Analyst Day 2015, their briefing on High Bandwidth Memory, and now a carefully seeded hardware sample to DICE developer and uber guru Johan Andersson, AMD is making sure that no one is left unaware that they will be introducing a new video card this quarter.
This new island is one seriously impressive and sweet GPU. wow & thanks @AMDRadeon ! They will be put to good use :) pic.twitter.com/S5hyD6vxNh
— Johan Andersson (@repi) May 22, 2015
With both Computex and the AMD-sponsored PC Gaming Show taking place next month, June should be a busy time in the PC hardware industry.
Source: Johan Andersson/AMD (via Tech Report)
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ES_Revenge - Saturday, May 30, 2015 - link
LOL you posted the same first paragraph twice, despite someone else telling you it was gibberish. "Hot Watt wasting" was lulz too. Yes it's true AMD's GPUs are nowhere near as power-efficient as Nvidia's current offerings but don't pretend the situation hasn't been the other way around before.You're way out in left-field for the most of your gibberish.
1. As for the 3xx series, we already know they are essentially all rebrands and it's just an OEM line like HD 8xxx were.
2. Tonga will never bear the x90 moniker either--it's the 380 and may not even be in the 4xx series unless Trinidad is just rebranded Tonga (like Curaco/Pitcairn), but who knows.
3. Tonga will never be sold under the pretence that it will be capable of 4K gaming. AMD knows it can't and won't advertise it as such either.
When Fiji drops it's more than likely going to be 4xx series. Sure most of the 4xx will probably be rebrands as well but *other than* power efficiency, there's really nothing wrong with Bonaire, Tonga, and Hawaii. In fact there's nothing wrong with Tahiti either though it is missing features like TrueAudio and 4K video decoding and it's "old" so it's almost certain AMD will not reuse it again.
Most people buying desktop cards aren't *that* concerned with power efficiency BTW. It's great that 980, 980 Ti and Titan X (Titan X really? It's over $1k) are and always will be faster than Tonga. But they're not even in the same realm of pricing. You'd *expect* that GPUs costing 2-4 TIMES as much would be faster, no? Honestly comparing Tonga to a Titan X is so much nonsense I'm not even going to bother saying anything else.
silverblue - Monday, May 25, 2015 - link
It's not quite drashek though.D. Lister - Saturday, May 23, 2015 - link
Teasing? They must realize they are already much too late to the party. Enough with the bloody teasing, show us some review samples and benchmarks already.Gunbuster - Sunday, May 24, 2015 - link
Enough with the teases. Come out with some terrible box art and marketing. Ruby is a leather thong please!rupaniii - Thursday, May 28, 2015 - link
That looks refreshingly short, even if I do have an EATX case, lol. Okay, I have 2 EATX cases ;) But a smaller card can't hurt if it's HBM