Thursday, January 22nd 2015
AMD to Launch New GPUs and APUs Only After March: CEO
In its an investor conference-call following its Q4-2014 and FY-2014 results, AMD stated that it will release new GPU and APU products starting Q2-2015, or only after March. "Going into the second quarter and the second half of the year with our new product launches, I think we feel very good about where we are positioned there," said Lisa Su, chief executive officer.
Q2-2015 will start off with the company's "Carrizo" line of all-in-one and notebook APUs. These chips will integrate the company's new "Excavator" CPU cores, with an integrated graphics core based on Graphics CoreNext 1.2 architecture (the same one AMD built its "Tonga" GPU on). Around the same time, AMD will launch new Opteron "Seattle" enterprise CPUs, which integrate up to eight ARM Cortex A-57 64-bit cores, targeting the ultra-dense server market. In Q2-2015, AMD will launch its latest Radeon Rx 300 series graphics processors. Its performance-segment part, the R9 380, will feature 4,096 GCN 1.2 cores, double that of its predecessor, and 4 GB of stacked HBM (high-bandwidth memory). Its mid-range chip, codenamed "Trinidad" will succeed "Curacao," and offer performance competitive to the $200-ish price-point.
Source:
KitGuru
Q2-2015 will start off with the company's "Carrizo" line of all-in-one and notebook APUs. These chips will integrate the company's new "Excavator" CPU cores, with an integrated graphics core based on Graphics CoreNext 1.2 architecture (the same one AMD built its "Tonga" GPU on). Around the same time, AMD will launch new Opteron "Seattle" enterprise CPUs, which integrate up to eight ARM Cortex A-57 64-bit cores, targeting the ultra-dense server market. In Q2-2015, AMD will launch its latest Radeon Rx 300 series graphics processors. Its performance-segment part, the R9 380, will feature 4,096 GCN 1.2 cores, double that of its predecessor, and 4 GB of stacked HBM (high-bandwidth memory). Its mid-range chip, codenamed "Trinidad" will succeed "Curacao," and offer performance competitive to the $200-ish price-point.
48 Comments on AMD to Launch New GPUs and APUs Only After March: CEO
let see what they disclose after march. i am using 7950 which is beast in price/performance.
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I know we all hope it is 20nm, but on 28nm you can more-or-less guesstimate how big it will/could be (also note Hawaii is pretty much the perfect size to fit chips on two sides given the size of a regulation interposer...which is what I was curious about in the first place.)
I'm also curious if they stick to 64 ROPs. That would mean it would (generally) need to be clocked higher than GM200. Not by a lot, mind you (couple percent), but with their general performance scaling it could add up (5-6% total). That's not counting the extra performance the mem bandwidth would obviously give (probably enough to make up the slightly lopsided rops/shaders if 512Gbps), nor the fact extra shader/compute/sfu resources can help in certain situations (versus nvidia's '3840'), but when we're talking estimated clockspeeds that are very similar (say ~1ghz) with chips that could be relatively similar size (say 24x24 [but perhaps more rectangular] vs 25x25) every little bit matters.
I think the point is it *should* perform well-enough considering where Titan-X will probably be placed. There's certainly a question of how much power it vs GM200 will be given and/or how well GM200 will clock (especially within 300w), but if nvidia is truly going to launch the first parts at $1350 (or some other obscene figure), AMD doesn't really need to worry until nvidia makes an apples-to-apples consumer part, and even then it could be interesting (as amd will probably be running at power efficient clocks where-as a cut-down GM200 would have to run higher and vicariously less power efficient. That will probably be offset vs Titan-X by having less ram, but I digress).
Should be a relatively interesting Q2 this year.
Like Ford, I suspect I do more with my tower that doesn't require a half-decent graphics card though as I don't tend to game as much as I used to.
(I'll take 2, please!)
All in all, my needs are a little extreme which is why it's probably not enough, but it I were using it just as a NAS or just as a Gateway, it would probably be fine though.
But their R&D budget is just 58% of what they spent in 2008. Nvidia spends 2x what they did in 2008 and now spends more than AMD does on all markets, while Intel outspends all of AMD by >4x.
IMO they behave like a company that is dragging along until they go bankrupt, squeezing as much as they can out of old architecture with minimal investment. That isn't a strategy for regaining market share.