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AMD's Evergreen codenames revealed
AFTER MUCH sniffing about, the INQ can finally reveal the names of AMD's much anticipated 40nm DX11-based Evergreen products.
A product launch is thought to be imminent (think late September), and AMD reckons these products will fundamentally change the graphics industry and give it an advantage over arch rival Nvidia.
The highest-end enthusiast offerings are purportedly called Cypress, with performance offerings dubbed Juniper, mainstream offerings called Redwood and Cedar, and low level offerings named after the poisionous shrubbery, Hemlock. [bwing me a shwubbery!]
We've heard AMD have already received a wafer back from TSMC and that it's alive, healthy and pretty much ready for ramping production. So the 40nm fully DX11-compliant chips will be ready for launch by the end of September, even slightly ahead of Windows 7.
Nvidia is still a way behind on DX11, and from what we're seeing, AMD seems confident - nay, cocky - that Evergreen will deliver a punch to the Goblin it may take a while to recover from.
Lets just hope NV doesn't get ever-green with envy. µ
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And Now Begin The Flaming \/\/
Charlie D. said quite a few weeks ago that those were the names of the new ATI cards.
And you'd think he would have some credibility recognised in the Inq, of all places.
By sniffing about do you mean opening a browser and reading semi accurate?
Can I work for you guys, I have this semi reliable source...
my sources are reliably unreliable. And I will stand by how creditable they aren't!!!!
anyway, just give me one of these so I can finally play crysis at something higher than 2Xaa@1920X1200. It isn't even worth the drop in performance from the AA! I'm talking about a single-core card, not some highend X2uberlightspeedterafast edition or something that costs $800 cause because they want you to buy an overpriced water cooler. Give me a card that will do what I want in almost all games reliably. Im looking forward to DX11 although I didn't see a big improvement in from DX9 to DX10 other than smoke
Charlie D only mentioned cypress and juniper, he never said anything about Redwood, Cedar or Hemlock... so, why are you complaining at the INQ for bringing you more news?