10/02/2011 08:59:00 PM
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Users waiting for AMD and Nvidia to release their next-generation graphics cards will have about six more months to wait until the replacements of the current Radeon HD 6900 and GeForce GTX 580 will arrive, states a report that recently hit the Web.
The information was provided by Taiwanese graphics card makers who told SweClockers they don't expect any new high-performance models to arrive in the near future from AMD or Nvidia.
Instead, it may take the two companies as much as six months to release their replacements for the current Radeon HD 6900 and GeForce GTX 580.
This report also seems to be confirmed by several other independent sources cited by the same publication, who believe that the two GPU makers will actually release their high-end solutions in spring or summer of 2012.
This however won't mean that the winter of 2011 will pass without any new GPUs being introduced, but these solutions will address the mainstream and notebook markets.
The main problem that need to be surpassed by the two GPU makers seems to be TSMC's inability to mass produce complex chips built using the 28nm fabrication node, as the yields achieved by the foundry are nowhere near the level they were expected to be.
Even though they use different design approaches, both AMD' Southern Islands and Nvidia's Kepler architectures were designed to increase the programmability of the graphics cards based on them.
The two companies took this route since they both feel that general purpose GPU computing could have a huge impact on next-generation machines as well as applications, and they want to prepare for when this moment will arrive.
In addition to the improved programmability, AMD's and Nvidia high-end GPUs should also deliver better gaming performance, as they will most probably include more shader units, thanks to the move to the new fabrication process.
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