14 DAY TRIAL // We have been waiting for quite some time for the first graphics cores built on the 28nm process technology to arrive, and now it seems like AMD is finally getting ready for the introduction of its Radeon HD 7000-series GPUs which are reportedly scheduled to make their entrance on December 5.
The announcement is supposed to be made during a press event in London, according to some undisclosed sources cited by Nordic Hardware.
The same sources also mentioned that the introduction of the Radeon HD 7000 graphics cores wouldn’t be accompanied by a product launch, which is most probably scheduled for a later date.
According to Nordic Hardware, AMD’s 28nm graphics cores will offer many surprises and have a much greater focus on GPGPU functionality than before, which seems to suggest that the announcement will cover some products based on the Next Generation Core (NGC) architecture.
From the information leaked until now, we know that AMD plans to split its Radeon HD 7000 graphics cores into two different product families, depending on the architecture they use.
The first of these will target low- and mid-range graphics solutions and will be based on the VLIW4 architecture AMD introduced at the end of last year with the Radeon HD 6900 GPU series.
The second series comprises GPUs based on the Next Generation Core (NGC) architecture, and these should also include the SKUs that will allegedly be announced on December 5 in London.
NCG was specially designed in order to break free from the VLIW (very long instruction word) architecture and should improve performance and functionality of GPGPU computing in AMD's graphics cores bring it on par with Nvidia in this regard.
All the parts will be manufactured by TSMC using the advanced 28nm fabrication node.