For Volcanic and Pirate Islands series
The upcoming AMD Volcanic Islands and Pirate Islands have been filling rumor news posts for quite some time but now 3DCenter.org managed to score some codenames of the GPUs that will be a part of this series.
As rumored before, the Volcanic Series is expected to use the new TSMC 20nm manufacturing process in order to bring higher transistor count at same or lower TDP, thus bringing more performance at same level of power. The Volcanic Islands GPUs are expected to debut in Q4 2013, or as soon as TSMC manages to get the 20nm manufacturing process up and running for volume production.
According to 3DCenter.org, the Volcanic Islands main GPU, codename Hawaii, will be a part of the high-end single- and dual-GPU graphics cards and complemented by Maui and Tonga GPUs, most likely aiming for mid-range and higher-end single GPU graphics cards. For some weird reason, the Hawaii dual-GPU SKU is codenamed New Zealand which is already used for earlier Radeon HD 7990 graphics cards.
In addition to Volcanic Islands series of GPUs, 3DCenter.org managed to dig out some info regarding Pirate Islands GPU series, rumored to be a successor of the Volcanic Islands GPU series. 3DCenter.org even managed to dig out some of the codenames that showed up in change-logs of the HWInfo tool that showed Bermuda, Fiji and Treasure Island codenames.
There have also been a lot of rumors regarding the actual naming of the upcoming Radeon graphics cards based on Volcanic Series, as AMD is expected to ditch the current Radeon HD xxxx naming scheme and use Radeon R# xxxx one which makes sense as it lines up with its current APU naming scheme. The R# part should point out to market segment while "xxxx" should stand for model number. Of course, nothing is still carved in stone as AMD could easily changed the naming scheme, so we'll wait to hear more as we draw closer to the launch time frame.
In any case, it looks like the Q4 2013 will be quite interesting when it comes to GPU market and we are quite sure that Nvidia will not be sitting with their fingers crossed.
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Source: 3DCenter.org, via Techpowerup.com.
As rumored before, the Volcanic Series is expected to use the new TSMC 20nm manufacturing process in order to bring higher transistor count at same or lower TDP, thus bringing more performance at same level of power. The Volcanic Islands GPUs are expected to debut in Q4 2013, or as soon as TSMC manages to get the 20nm manufacturing process up and running for volume production.
According to 3DCenter.org, the Volcanic Islands main GPU, codename Hawaii, will be a part of the high-end single- and dual-GPU graphics cards and complemented by Maui and Tonga GPUs, most likely aiming for mid-range and higher-end single GPU graphics cards. For some weird reason, the Hawaii dual-GPU SKU is codenamed New Zealand which is already used for earlier Radeon HD 7990 graphics cards.
In addition to Volcanic Islands series of GPUs, 3DCenter.org managed to dig out some info regarding Pirate Islands GPU series, rumored to be a successor of the Volcanic Islands GPU series. 3DCenter.org even managed to dig out some of the codenames that showed up in change-logs of the HWInfo tool that showed Bermuda, Fiji and Treasure Island codenames.
There have also been a lot of rumors regarding the actual naming of the upcoming Radeon graphics cards based on Volcanic Series, as AMD is expected to ditch the current Radeon HD xxxx naming scheme and use Radeon R# xxxx one which makes sense as it lines up with its current APU naming scheme. The R# part should point out to market segment while "xxxx" should stand for model number. Of course, nothing is still carved in stone as AMD could easily changed the naming scheme, so we'll wait to hear more as we draw closer to the launch time frame.
In any case, it looks like the Q4 2013 will be quite interesting when it comes to GPU market and we are quite sure that Nvidia will not be sitting with their fingers crossed.
Source: 3DCenter.org, via Techpowerup.com.
News by Luca Rocchi and Marc Büchel - German Translation by Paul Görnhardt - Italian Translation by Francesco Daghini
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