Posted on Tuesday, May 28 2013 @ 13:13 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
German tech site
PC Games Hardware came across what are claimed to be the specifications of AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 8000 series GPUs at Chinese tech site
ChipHell. Take in mind that this is unofficial information, subject to change.
AMD Radeon HD 8970
28nm process, GCN 2.0 Curacao XT architecture with 3 geometry engines, 8 ACE 2.0, 55 million transistors
36 CUs, 2304 SPs, 144 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 6 GB GDDR5, 384-bit memory bus
1100 MHz GPU, 3500 MHz memory, 250 Watt TDP
5.07 TFlops
~$599
Performance ~+35% versus HD 7970 GHz Edition
AMD Radeon HD 8950
28nm process, GCN 2.0 Hainan XT architecture with 2 geometry engines, 8 ACE2.0, < 35 million transistors
28 CUs, 1792 SPs, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 4 GB GDDR5, 256-bit memory bus
1200 MHz GPU, 3500 MHz memory, 190 Watt TDP
4.30 TFlops
~$399
Performance ~+10% versus HD 7970 GHz-Edition
AMD Radeon HD 8870
28nm process, GCN 2.0 Hainan Pro architecture, 2 geometry engines, 8 ACE 2.0, 35 million transistors
24 CUs, 1536 SPs, 96 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 2 GB GDDR5, 256-bit memory bus
1100 MHz GPU, 3000MHz memory, 160 Watt TDP
3.38 TFlops
~$299
Performance ~+40 % versus HD 7870
AMD Radeon HD 8850
28nm process, Hainan LE GCN2.0 architecture with two geometry engines, 8 ACE2.0, 35 million transistors
20 CUs, 1280 SPs, 80 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 2 GB GDDR5, 256-bit memory bus
1000 MHz GPU, 3000 MHz memory, 130 Watt TDP
2.56 TFlops
~$229
Performance ~+15% versus HD 7870
