According to the latest set of information coming from VR-Zone.com, AMD's 28nm Tonga GPU might be ready as early as this August and should replace the Tahiti Pro GPU and offer a bit more performance and, most importantly, much better power levels.


According to new information, the 28nm Tonga GPU is expected to pack 2048 GNC2 stream processors, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs and a 256-bit memory interface paired up with, most likely, 2GB of GDDR5 memory.

Currently, AMD has a lot of trouble with the Nvidia's Geforce GTX 760 graphics card as the R9 280 offers similar performance but with higher power consumption while the R9 270X is, on the other hand, a bit slower at similar power levels. The upcoming new graphics card, based on the new 28nm Tonga GPU, could offer similar performance as the GTX 760 but allow AMD to lower power consumption as well as an overall cost, thus giving the GTX 760 some much needed competition.

The name for the new graphics card is still not carved in stone but the information suggest that it might be ready sometime in August.



Source: VR-Zone.com, via Techpowerup.com.