Posted on Tuesday, September 17 2013 @ 19:18 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Forbes had an interview with Matt Skynner, AMD's Vice President and General Manager of the Graphics Business Unit. The subject of the interview is gaming and graphics cards and one of the things he reveals is that the next-generation Radeon cards are coming in Q4 2013 and promises that the high-end cards will be extremely efficient:
“They’re coming in Q4. I can’t reveal a pricepoint but we’re looking at more traditional enthusiast GPU pricepoints. We’re not targeting a $999 single GPU solution like our competition because we believe not a lot of people have that $999. We normally address what we call the ultra-enthusiast segment with a dual-GPU offering like the 7990. So this next-generation line is targeting more of the enthusiast market versus the ultra-enthusiast one.
“It’s also extremely efficient. [Nvidia's Kepler] GK110 is nearly 30% bigger from a die size point of view. We believe we have the best performance for the die size for the enthusiast GPU.
“Another thing I can tell you is about the process node: this GPU is in 28nm. Some have speculated that it was 20nm and it’s not for a specific reason: At 28nm for an enthusiast GPU, we can achieve higher clock speeds and higher absolute performance.”
Source: Forbes
