14 DAY TRIAL // I don't really have to point out how eagerly everyone is waiting for the AMD Hawaii graphics processing unit. Not after it beat NVIDIA's GeForce Titan in benchmarks despite having a lousy patchwork driver.
Alas, what I do have to point out is that, for all of AMD's eagerness, it is also remarkably patient. Or at least likes to tease the living stuffing out of us common folk.
I say this because, despite Roy's Tweet, there are still four hours and a day left to wait, as you'll see as soon as you click on that video we embedded, which isn't really a video at all, but a countdown to the apocalypse – I mean to the official unveiling of the Hawaii GPU and the Radeon R9-290X graphics card.
So far, we know, among other things, that the 28nm graphics processing unit has 2,816 stream processors, 44 SMIDs, a 512-bit memory interface, 176 Texture Mapping Units, 44 ROPs, 4 GB / 6GB GDDR5 VRAM and a 5+1+1 phase design.
Add to that the four display outputs (2 x DVI, one HDMI, one DisplayPort) and 8-Pin plus 6-Pin power connectors and there's a lot to look forward to.
Update 6:07 PM: It looks like the tweet mysteriously disappeared. Alas. I'll see if I can spot it surfacing again.