Not the desktop variant sadly, but more power to the portable gaming world can’t hurt. Based on AMD’s 28nm GCN architecture, the next generation graphics chips for mobile platforms is underway. Previous features available only for the high-end 7000M series will now begin to shift into the more budget-minded category as AMD positions several chips to compete with NVidia’s common 650M chips and their weaker brethren:
Sadly, AMD marketing found it advantageous for them not to put the chart in actual frame rates. Don’t be fooled by the bars though as performance gains are around 20% – 75%, not bad, but not several times as fast as the graphs would seem. We’ll just have to rely on the benchmarks for a better comparison later. Here’s some stats:
You can find the rest of the slides at the source.
Source:
Engadget
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Hmm, the stream processor count seems to be stagnant across the line from the 8500 to the 8700 series. The 8800 stands out a bit compared to the others that just have an increased frequency (not sure if there are memory differences and interface differences as well, which could also be the case). This is why AMD probably chose to use the 8800 vs Nvidia mid-range 650m. Nvidia does this as well with some of their chips and I hate that heh. They shouldn’t really skimp out like that with some of those mobile gpu products.
Also, yeah, you have to love how they adjusted the chart like that. Every company has been guilty of that once in a while, but every time it happens it’s just as annoying heh :).
I agree that graph is marketing BS :). More mobile graphics love is a plus, just be sure to get a Radeon 8800 GPU and not those crappy 8500, 8600,and 8700s :P. I wonder how an 8830, 8850, or 8780m would stack up to something like a GT 650m or 660m
These bull graphs are annoying as hell. Misleading the average man should be a punishable offense, along with 199.99 price tags.