GRJohn

No dude when you say "Greenland gpu will be a Fiji XT with memory and node improvements" it's like saying Pascal is a die shrink of Maxwell GM204 when they're two different GPU cores featuring two different GPU architectures. Please fix that.

Agreed, for gamers it makes no sense. You're right, for the average joe gamer a 200$ card is more than he'll need. But you can't really put a value on a collector's item. People spend thousands of dollars to collect antiquities, so I can't really complain just because it's PC hardware.

Ah makes sense, apologies if I seemed aggressive

For 1440p which is what this discussion is about the R9 290X is faster than the GTX 970 ( tested with latest drivers ). They're tied at 1080p. I would consider the 290X to be the faster and higher end card overall.

They will likely show it off at the tressfx demo today.

It's based on the design that was leaked a while ago, so it's based on something real.

in b4 all the hate. Liquid cooling is why R9 295X2 handily beat Titan Z all the while running cooler and quieter. I'm all for liquid cooling. You don't void your warranty and it will perform better and be cheaper than buying NZXT G10 + water cooler.

AMD has announced via facebook that's it putting the finishing touches on the 300 series so that the new graphics cards meet up with expectations. AMD is working on a new hihg-end GPU code named FIji XT with 4096 stream processors and a brand new R9 370X GPU code named Trinidad to rpleace the R9 270 series and compete with the GTX 960. Full article / Source.

Intel's Genral Manager of the Middle East and North Africa regions has stated that the company expects to introduce the first 10nm chips in 2017. Two years later than the original company roadmap. The first 10nm processors will be based on Intel's Cannonlake microarchitecture. Which is a die shrink of Skylake but with better graphics and improved interconnect capabilities. Complete article / Source

Again one Engineer said she's taping out R9 380X cards. A different engineer said he has worked on a 300W GPU SOC with stacked memory without mentioning any name could be a 380X, could be an engineering R&D prototype, could be a 390X we just don't know.

One engineer said she's responsible for taping out R9 380X cards. A different engineer said he has worked on a 300W GPU SoC. Two different people probably working on two different things. The 380X could be the enhanced Hawaii as far as we know and not even based on Fiji XT.

No, the 300W was never specified for the R9 380X or any other card for that matter. It just said 300W 2.5D stacked memory SOC GPU. So could be an R9 390X or just some engineering prototype that will never make it to production.

I'm all for HSA and I'm sure it'll be successful, especially in HPC and specialized applications. But that doesn't particularly interest me as a gamer. AMD has Mantle and it should use it to push HSA into games. It comes down to this, if I get better performance with my GPU paired with an APU than a CPU I would definitely opt for the APU.

Oh wow, looks like Nvidia has pretty much been screwed on 16nm.

Unfortunately that's not the case. They'll make CPU only Zen products for servers which will trickle down to the PC. AMD did also confirm on two occasions that they will refresh the desktop FX products with Zen in 2016. Will use a new socket and a new chipset designed by Asus. APUs have to be affordable products, so more than 4 cores is a no go.