I was worried after the annoucement on 7400m, 7500m, 7600m gpus that they are all were 40nm. they are just rebranded/reused 6000m mobile cards.
And after those news, i was worried that the high end mobile cards (i.e 7970m) will be rebranded 6970m.
Well seems i dont have to worry anymore. This is directly from AMD.
The only thing that worries me is that the low end imac will get a 40nm card, and only the high end imac wil get 28nm.
Anyways, heres a long wall of text from anandtech from CES about the 7000m series gpu's.
They have in essence drawn a line in the sand (e.g. in their product portfolio), and everything 7600M and below will reuse their existing 40nm VLIW5 architecture while all of the yet-to-be-announced parts above 7600M (7700M/7800M/7900M) will switch to 28nm GCN (Graphics Core Next). It sounds like the mobile GPUs will use lower power variants of “Pitcairn” and “Cape Verde”, leaving “Tahiti” as a desktop-only GPU for the time being, but features like DX11.1, VCE, and ZeroCore Power Technology will be present in the higher performance 7000M parts when they launch. And just when will that be? AMD wouldn’t give us a date, but all indications are we’ll see the 7000M Southern Islands GPUs in the April/May timeframe.
Good info, disappointed we dont get Tahiti in the mobile cards though :/
And after those news, i was worried that the high end mobile cards (i.e 7970m) will be rebranded 6970m.
Well seems i dont have to worry anymore. This is directly from AMD.
The only thing that worries me is that the low end imac will get a 40nm card, and only the high end imac wil get 28nm.
Anyways, heres a long wall of text from anandtech from CES about the 7000m series gpu's.
They have in essence drawn a line in the sand (e.g. in their product portfolio), and everything 7600M and below will reuse their existing 40nm VLIW5 architecture while all of the yet-to-be-announced parts above 7600M (7700M/7800M/7900M) will switch to 28nm GCN (Graphics Core Next). It sounds like the mobile GPUs will use lower power variants of “Pitcairn” and “Cape Verde”, leaving “Tahiti” as a desktop-only GPU for the time being, but features like DX11.1, VCE, and ZeroCore Power Technology will be present in the higher performance 7000M parts when they launch. And just when will that be? AMD wouldn’t give us a date, but all indications are we’ll see the 7000M Southern Islands GPUs in the April/May timeframe.
Good info, disappointed we dont get Tahiti in the mobile cards though :/