AMD's New "Tonga" GPUs

[Xquisite]

Some rumors about Tonga surfaced a year ago, and now this actually might be true. In the article following it says that it could be the GCN architecture redesigned again. 

No and I don't think anyone posted about this before. 

 

 

AMD Tonga, GCN redesigned once again?

First rumors about Tonga surfaced more than a year ago. It was listed in a BETA Catalyst driver along with Hawaii and Vesuvius. The last two are already here, but Tonga was still being polished.

 

Tonga is not a single island, but an archipelago of 176 islands. Those islands have some piracy history, but we are not convinced this is a Pirate Islands’ chip. In fact, you will get much more results by looking for Tonga’s volcanoes.

 

First and foremost, Tonga is a mainstream processor, which is probably manufactured by Global Foundries. It will introduce some major changes to the architecture; however, if you expect 20nm fabrication process and High-Bandwidth-Memory, then you will be disappointed. So what is so special about this processor?

 

Tonga is most likely a direct competitor to NVIDIA’s Maxwell GM107. AMD has been actively improving GCN architecture to increase power efficiency. Tonga will bring a dramatic change in terms of power consumption, something you would not expect from AMD anytime soon. Tongan architecture is also said to feature new PowerTune Boost, which would operate at much lower hardware level.

 

Of course Tonga would also support all technologies known from other GCN 1.1 and GCN 2.0 GPUs: Mantle, TrueAudio and maybe even XDMA CrossFire.

 

AMD Radeon R9 2×5

Graphics card based on Tonga should be released in about two to three months. The sad news is that Tonga-powered graphics card will only feature 2GB memory (at least the reference model).  This basically means we have a new Pitcairn (Curacao) replacement.

 

Probably the the most suitable name for this card would be R9 275X, but from what we’ve learned, final codename has not yet been decided.

 

AMD will probably talk more about its new GPU behind closed doors at Computex meetings, which starts in about 19 days, so stay tunned for more information.

 

[Askew]

So these are not high end cards?

[Xquisite]

It was leaked and rumored last year that AMD might be working on new GPUs and this article here says something about it. 

Don't get your hopes up to high as it may be GCN Architecture redesigned. 

 

 

AMD Tonga, GCN redesigned once again?

First rumors about Tonga surfaced more than a year ago. It was listed in a BETA Catalyst driver along with Hawaii and Vesuvius. The last two are already here, but Tonga was still being polished.

 

Tonga is not a single island, but an archipelago of 176 islands. Those islands have some piracy history, but we are not convinced this is a Pirate Islands’ chip. In fact, you will get much more results by looking for Tonga’s volcanoes.

 

First and foremost, Tonga is a mainstream processor, which is probably manufactured by Global Foundries. It will introduce some major changes to the architecture; however, if you expect 20nm fabrication process and High-Bandwidth-Memory, then you will be disappointed. So what is so special about this processor?

 

Tonga is most likely a direct competitor to NVIDIA’s Maxwell GM107. AMD has been actively improving GCN architecture to increase power efficiency. Tonga will bring a dramatic change in terms of power consumption, something you would not expect from AMD anytime soon. Tongan architecture is also said to feature new PowerTune Boost, which would operate at much lower hardware level.

 

Of course Tonga would also support all technologies known from other GCN 1.1 and GCN 2.0 GPUs: Mantle, TrueAudio and maybe even XDMA CrossFire.

 

AMD Radeon R9 2×5

Graphics card based on Tonga should be released in about two to three months. The sad news is that Tonga-powered graphics card will only feature 2GB memory (at least the reference model).  This basically means we have a new Pitcairn (Curacao) replacement.

 

Probably the the most suitable name for this card would be R9 275X, but from what we’ve learned, the final codename has not yet been decided.

 

AMD will probably talk more about its new GPU behind closed doors at Computex meetings, which starts in about 19 days, so stay tuned for more information.

 

Source: http://videocardz.com/50506/exclusive-amd-working-tonga-gpu

[qwertywarrior]

double post 6 minutes apart ?

[Xquisite]

No they're not unfortunately, it's competing against that 750Ti which is blowing up the market for low power GPUs

[Xquisite]

double post 6 minutes apart ?

Yes I'm terribly sorry, my internet lagged and I did not know what happened. I timed out and could not see the post I made earlier. 

@Windspeed36 or any other admin may delete my other post which is at http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/159875-amds-new-tonga-gpus/

[NInety]

'Don't drop dat Tonga tong DON'T DROP DAT TONGA TONG!'

[Sauron]

The problem is that all 22nm gpus have been delaye to 2015, so we won't be seeing any of this anytime soon...

[Misanthrope]

Makes sense: a direct response to the maxwell 750

[Sonefiler]

If this is AMD's answer to  the GTX 750Ti, then I hope it's the same power consumption and better performance.

[Humbug]

If this is AMD's answer to  the GTX 750Ti, then I hope it's the same power consumption and better performance.

I think it definitely will be faster, even AMD's current generation parts in that price range are faster than Maxwell 750ti.

 

As for power consumption; we will have to wait and see.

[Accursed Entity]

Nice, more competition for Nvidia, I hope they're good.

 

I think it definitely will be faster, even AMD's current generation parts in that price range are faster than Maxwell 750ti.

 

As for power consumption; we will have to wait and see.

[Ren]

Pls don't necro reposts.

[Accursed Entity]

Pls don't necro reposts.

Where's the other thread? 

[Recon-UK]

Pls don't necro reposts.

U WOT M8

[ZacDaMan72]

I'd laugh my arse off if they make a New Zealand card haha