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TheHutchTTU · May 8, 2013

AMD is building from the ground up, hopefully it's worth the wait!

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Proposed Spec's

20 nm silicon fab process
4096 stream processors
16 serial processor cores
4 geometry engines
256 TMUs
64 ROPs
512-bit GDDR5 memory interface

dostov · May 8, 2013

Integrated CPU cores is the big news in there if you ask me...

Crapxxas119 · May 8, 2013

What is the advantage??? Will processing be distributed across 2 CPUs? I thought the bottleneck of most gaming systems is the GPU and not the CPU...

Kemosabe89 · May 9, 2013

All I hear is that when this does drop. Everything out right now is going to get destroyed by the "next gen". So is there even a point of getting something awesome now or wait and get something epic later? And it can be said that dosent matter if I get one now or later because in time there will always be something better and newer. But I am drooling over the HD 8970. U can put a CPU on my GPU... Put a 2500k or a 2600k CPU on my 8970 and only charge me $400.00

rescuetoaster · May 9, 2013

Kemosabe89 said:
All I hear is that when this does drop. Everything out right now is going to get destroyed by the "next gen". So is there even a point of getting something awesome now or wait and get something epic later? And it can be said that dosent matter if I get one now or later because in time there will always be something better and newer. But I am drooling over the HD 8970. U can put a CPU on my GPU... Put a 2500k or a 2600k CPU on my 8970 and only charge me $400.00

We say that about every generation of hardware, and will continue to do so until the end of time. You can wait forever with that kind of mindset.

Kemosabe89 · May 9, 2013

rescuetoaster said:
We say that about every generation of hardware, and will continue to do so until the end of time. You can wait forever with that kind of mindset.

Yeah but for someone like me it just makes it hard. Starting with a budget build and slowly upgrading. I want to make it last. For a while. . . 7950 or wait for a 8950. What to do. :shrug:

Anonaru · May 9, 2013

I'm tellin' ya, big things are coming, lads. A lot of things are about to change-- The desktop market isn't willing to die, so it's going to adapt. A GPU on a 20nm fab alone could be HUGE. If they can build the serial modules at this size, they'll be fancy and cool.. Imagine if they're Steamroller cores?

This thing is going to be a beast :attn:

trueblack · May 10, 2013

this is as opposed to Nvidia's Maxwell chip (for their GTX 8xx series)

but both company seem to be trying to incorporate CPU in GPU functions..
here though, AMD might have a clear edge.

hokiealumnus · May 10, 2013

Turns out this was an APU slide after all. We have an update in the pipeline.

trueblack · May 14, 2013

isn't the GPGPU a form an APU when used in certain open-CL programming?

so AMD is going to launch a pure APU this time? or actually a GPU with an APU?

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