The Game Developers Conference will be the launching ramp

Feb 14, 2015 08:46 GMT  ·  By

With NVIDIA preparing some new announcement for March, it was to be expected that Advanced Micro Devices would do the same thing.

We now have the confirmation. Between March 2 and March 6, the game Developers Conference will take place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.

There many games will be revealed or pre-introduced, while developers of high-end hardware will show off their newest toys.

Since NVIDIA is aiming for a product launch on March 3, it is a given that the GDC is where things will go down.

Obviously, AMD will not allow itself to be undone, so it is getting ready to launch something as well. We don't have an exact day, but the ETA is about as narrow as we;'ve ever seen, from 2 to 6 March. Or possible a day or two prior to the show.

AMD's newest “Crazy” product

Brad Wardell is the founder, president and CEO of software development and computer games company Stardock.

An American businessman, programmer and author residing in Michigan, he partnered with Oxide Games in 2013 to create a next-generation game engine, Nitrous.

It was he who revealed AMD is working on something crazy for the GDC. He actually used the word “crazy” to describe it.

He did not say what the product would be, and we are quite sure that a tablet APU / SoC is still very much out of the question.

What products we can expect

The Radeon R9 295X2 graphics card is a possibility. With its two GPUs, it would be just the kind of thing that would fit in the CDC atmosphere. The Radeon R9 300 series will get attention for sure, as well.

On the other hand, being an “expected” product might preclude them from qualifying as the something “crazy” that Wardell seems so excited about.

On the other hand, the man did also say that the AMD product would make us wonder why it hasn't been done before. Perhaps a smart TV with integrated game console? If NVIDIA can make a tablet with console quality graphics, a Console Smart TV might be just the thing to turn heads.

AMD already makes the processors and graphics for Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony PlayStation 4, so it would not be too huge a leap.