8087h3d1n054ur from TecStories writes: 28nm HD7000 slides appear as global foundries shows them off to the world.
The Codenames for the upcoming graphics parts are Comal and Virgo. It was pretty obvious that the next generation of card would be named the HD7000 but as usual the internet has been at war over the next name, DAAMIT is not going to go and spend another massive wad of cash renaming a system they just changed.
techPowerUp: Admittedly, this is a terrible day for news on unannounced GPUs, but we rushed it in anyway. Here are the first board shots of AMD's next-generation dual-GPU graphics card, the Radeon HD 7990 (codename: "New Zealand"). Sources told us that AMD working overtime to release this SKU, to restore performance-leadership of the Radeon HD 7900 series. The dual-GPU card, according to the specifications at hand, is bearing AMD's coveted "GHz Edition" badge, its core is clocked higher than that of the HD 7970.
VR-Zone.com: "Coming in at US$249 and US$349, the AMD Radeon 'Pitcairn' HD 7870/7850 fills the gap in the middle of the increasingly crowded Southern Islands family. If you are on a specific budget and not looking for absolute performance and don't want to wait for the impending arrival of Nvidia's Kepler to apply performance and price pressures, then you may be interested in having a look at our review."
gdm.or.jp: A specifications slide for AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 7800 series has been leaked by a Japanese website. The Pitcairn chip effectively doubles up on Cape Verde, featuring 1280 SP in 20 CU, 80 TMU, 256-bit 2GB memory and 32 ROP. Transistor count also nearly doubles to 2.8 billion.
Looks to be pretty good, but it seems like it will fall short of Nvidia's new GPU's when they release.
The word from inside the biz is that GK104 beats GTX580 and 7950 and gets close to 7970. At the least somewhere inbetween. This is where he gets that from.
7850 and 7870 look like great parts though, 7850 is just shy of a GTX570 overall, and 7870 is on par with a GTX580.
We will wait and see what Nvidia come up with but don't be surprised if the GTX660 beats even the 7950 as well as these cards. After that it depends on pricing and availability. If nothing else the Nvidia cards will hopefully reduce prices somewhat.
Who didn't see this one coming. If they release this Sept then nVidia will have to do something big in order to stay up to date. I'm really looking forward to Kepler and 28nm as well as Bulldozer and Ivy.