Nvidia’s latest and greatest GPUs remain unchallenged
Advanced Micro Devices will talk about its much-awaited (and long overdue) next-gen graphics cards later in this quarter, the company’s CEO Lisa Su said in an earnings call earlier this week. This is significant because if there was ever a need for a graphics card refresh, it’s right now.
Until recently many people were wondering if the launch would happen in time for GTA V’s PC release, but AMD remained noncommittal, offering nothing more than a vague, albeit tantalizing, response. “We’re giving finishing touches,” is all it said. GTA V is already here, of course.
To be fair to AMD, it’s not as if they promised something in a particular timeframe and failed to deliver on time. Even during the previous quarterly earnings call all Su would say is that the company had some “very good” graphics cards lined up for the second quarter of 2015. But the company is not doing itself any favors by letting Nvidia’s latest and greatest GPUs go virtually unchallenged for so long (over 9 months and counting).
“So as we go into the second half of the year, we would like to see some regain of share in both the desktop and the notebook business,” Su said, responding to a question from Credit Suisse’s John Pitzer.
“I've talked about Carrizo being a strong product for us, I talked about some of our graphics launches that we'll talk about later this quarter. So from our standpoint, I would say the first half of the year, we had some, let's call it, some of our issues that we were correcting in terms of the channel, and then a weaker than expected market environment.”
The first quarter wasn’t a particularly good one for the company as it slumped to a $180 million net loss. Although a significant improvement over the previous quarter in which it reported a net loss of $364 million, this is several times worse than the $20 million loss it recorded during the same period last year.
Hopefully, things will improve once the new graphics cards are finally available. Kitguru expects them to be unveiled at Computex in June.
In the meantime, we will have to make do with unverified reports and rumored specs.
Coalescing relevant bits from the various R9 300 rumors we’ve heard so far, one can paint a somewhat detailed picture of the company’s next-gen GPU lineup:
- AMD Radeon R9 390X: 28nm Fiji XT GPU, 3,584 cores, 224 TMUs, 64 ROPs, 4GB memory, $599
- AMD Radeon R9 390: 28nm Fiji Pro GPU, 3,328 cores, 208 TMUs, 64 ROPs, 4GB GDDR5, $399
- AMD Radeon R9 380X: 28nm Hawaii XTX GPU, 2,816 cores, 176 TMUs, 64 ROPs, 4GB GDDR5, 512-bit, price unknown
- AMD Radeon R9 380: 28nm Hawaii Pro GPU, 2,560 cores, 160 TMUs, 64 ROPs, 4GB GDDR5, 512-bit, price unknown
- AMD Radeon R9 375X: Tonga XT GPU, 2,048 cores, 128 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 2GB GDDR5, 384-bit, price unknown
- AMD Radeon R9 375: Tonga Pro GPU, 1,792 cores, 112 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 2GB GDDR5, 256-bit, price unknown
- AMD Radeon R9 370X: Trinidad XT GPU, 1,280 cores, 80 TMUs, 32 ROPs, 2GB GDDR5, 256-bit, price unknown
- AMD Radeon R9 370: 28nm Trinidad Pro GPU, 1,024 cores, 64 TMUs, 24 ROPs, 2GB GDDR5, 256-bit, price unknown
- AMD Radeon R7 360X: Bermuda GPU, 896 cores, 128-bit GDDR5, price unknown
- AMD Radeon R7 350X/340X: Oland GPU, 320 cores, DDR3 and GDDR5 memory, 128-bit
- AMD Radeon R5 300: Caicos GPU, 160 cores, DDR3 memory, 64-bit
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