28nm High-End AMD Mobile GPU Detailed, Comes in 2012

Even though AMD has barely started to seriously promote its latest mobile graphics processing units, there seem to already be reports dealing with the GPU set to come after it, one based on a more advanced manufacturing process.

Since TSMC decided to skip over some manufacturing process nodes, NVIDIA and AMD had to stick to the 40nm process for their current GPUs.

Now that the two graphics card developers are finally ready to approach more advanced nodes, they are well into their new CPU plans.

What this mean, for Advanced Micro Devices at least, is that it has already started planning and building on the plans set to eventually spawn the successor to its existing collection of GPUs.

Normally, since the chip in question would only show up more than a year from now, there wouldn't be much info on it.

Apparently, this is not the case, as the Wimbledon, as Donanimhaber says it is named, has already been detailed, more or less.

The Wimbledon is what can be seen as the high-end successor to Blackomb, the latter being the most powerful Mobility Radeon HD 6000 chip.

That said, Wimbledon will be built on the 28nm process and will have no less than 2 GB of GDDR5 memory, which already says a lot about what users can expect from it.

Unfortunately, and quite expectedly, the clock speeds are not known, not for the chip nor for the aforementioned VRAM.

What is, however, clear, at least as far as reports can be trusted in general, is that the memory interface will be of 256 bits and the TDP of 65 watts or more.

All of the above features will be crammed inside the MXM 3.0 form factor and will be at the core of the strongest Mobility Radeon HD 7000 card once Wimbledon starts being mass produced in the second quarter of 2012.