The availability of AMD’s Radeon HD 5000 series has been anything but glorious over the last few months. TSMC has been unable to keep up with the current demand for 40nm graphics circuits and AMD have impatiently been waiting to for the market demands to be met. Over the last few weeks production have ramped up and the latest information suggests that large amounts have started shipping to partners, no less than 800,000 ATI Radeon HD 5000 GPUs are heading out.
The sales numbers are as follows:
| DirectX 11 graphics circuit | Number of shipped circuits |
|---|---|
| Radeon HD 5000 total | 800 000 |
| Radeon HD 5800/5900 (Cypress) | 300 000 |
| Radeon HD 5700 (Juniper) | 500 000 |
AMD intends to ship 1 million DirectX 11 graphics circuits before the end of the year, something that should be doable with a significantly improved and more reliable 40 nanometer manufacturing process at TSMC.
AMD’s 40 nanometer Cypress GPU
AMD covers the segments from around $100 , HD 5750, up to and over $500 with the flagship HD 5970. Starting next year we will also be seeing some new entry level DirectX 11 graphics cards based on the Cedar and Redwood cores.
