News from the red side.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 04:41:49 Tue, April 24, 2012

And by the red side I mean AMD. I found two pieces of AMD news that are fit to print, or type I guess. First of all AMD has decided to separate all their products that are in the HD 4000 series or older from the rest of their newer cards. The nature of this separation is driver support. From now on, all HD 4000 or older parts will receive driver updates only 4 times a year.

In other news, AMD will be debuting the HD 7990 at Computex 2012 which is set to occur June 5-9th. The HD 7990 will be powered by two 28nm GPUs, which together contain 4,096 stream processors. Those GPUs will be paired with 6 GB of GDDR5 memory and enough display connectors to drive 6-monitor Eyefinity.

3 Comments

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 10:27:59 AM

Stubby
The Stubbiest

hmm how different is that from the newer cards? half as frequently? never paid attention to how often they come out.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 3:48:18 PM

jimday
n00b

catalyst drivers usually came out once a month. now the versions 4000 and sub will be updated once 3 months. this way they can concentrate on the newer cards and optimize them accordingly to ex: win8

Thursday, April 26, 2012 10:27:03 PM

ultima
Senior Member

really it makes sense. those cards are getting old. still good. but its 3 generations ago. and how much driver optimization can they do for the older cards anyways ? i would like to know when the 7890 is coming out....thats totally slipped its expected time frame

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