AMD has just launched the last member of the Southern Islands family based on the fresh architecture Graphics Core Next. A new leak has divulged information on the next generation architecture called Tenerife that will bring 20% better performance than HD 7970.
Tenerife will use an “improved” version of Graphics Core Next. In the leaked specfication document that has been published at Xfastest it has been revealed the name will be Graphics Core Next 2.0. Exactly how AMD has optimized the architecture is unclear, as is how many stream processors or so called Radeon cores it will get.
AMD says Tenerife will get 1,2 times better performance than current flagship Radeon HD 7970, which is currently the fastest single-GPU card on the market. From 3.8 Teraflops Tenerife will raise the bar to 4.5 Teraflops and back this up with a similar memory bus at 384-bit and 3GB memory.
It reveals no details on the energy consumption or clock frequencies, but that it already has a faster version of the GCN architecture could very well be a kick in NVIDIA’s direction, which is yet to launch the new Kepler architecture at 28nm. An architecture that NVIDIA says will have higher performance potential than Graphics Core Next and Southern Islands.
Source: Xfastest
