AMD Southern Islands comes out in the next few months. Rumor has it that they taped out the first 28nm cards in February. I'm betting that they'll dual-launch the new series with Bulldozer.
What kind of performance increase are we looking at from the 40nm process to the 28nm process?
I'll kick myself if I spend several hundred dollars on GPUs and then quickly wind up with obsolete card(s).
I'm not sure if you know what obsolete means. Your cards will not be obsolete by far.
Obsolete is something like if you were to buy an 8 track player... No one uses those anymore and they have been replaced with about 5 other forms of media. Thus, worthless.
What you said about the graphics card is kind of like blu-ray. Just because blu-ray came out doesn't mean DVDs are now obsolete. They are still widely used by tons of people.
If you want to wait and buy the older cards when the prices drop, you will still get great performance out of them for years before having to upgrade.
You know, it's generally not performance increases that comes with size reduction, It's generally the pricing and heat performance they bring to the table, and the fact we can just stick more powerful things in smaller devices.
Yeah, you won't get the huge performance increase until the next production of cards after the first.
Usually they have minor upgrades with better heat management and what not, then they release a card decked out with raw power.
They already had the 6 series for minor improvements, the next one is probably going to be a new generation. It's about time as well, by the time it gets released it'll be nearly 2 years since the 5 series.
If it's just another minor improvement, they better come up with something that has ~6970 level of performance for <200€ and with <150W power consumption.
I'm going to be upgrading my card in the next month, if I see concrete dates of when I might expect the newer cards to come, I'll probably just buy a 6950 and swap it for two of the newer cards.
Even if it's just a die shrink, it will cut down on noise and power, it might even have more memory
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