Posted on Monday, July 19 2010 @ 19:36 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
FUD Zilla
claims AMD's Southern Islands GPUs will not offer major performance gains, as it's expected to be nothing more than a tweak of the Radeon HD 5000 series architecture.
This is mainly due the fact that this generation remains developed for 40nm and ATI still doesn’t have any new amazing architecture until 28nm and we have already reported that 28nm cores are coming sometime in 2011.
The release of the first cores based on the new improved generation is planned for October time, but ATI might introduce them in last days of September just to pull wool over investors’ eyes, as if it launches in late September it can still claim that launch took place in Q3 2010. They have already played this trump card with the Radeon HD 5000 series.
