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Leaked HP slides reveal launch dates for low-end Radeon HD 5000-series GPUs

by Parm Mann on 9 December 2009, 13:22

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A selection of leaked Hewlett-Packard slides have made their way into the hands of technology blog Engadget, revealing the manufacturer's hardware refresh plans for the coming year.

As expected, HP will refresh a number of systems with Intel's upcoming Clarkdale processors, productised as Core i3 and Core i5, but what's interesting is the mention of a pair of yet-to-be-announced AMD ATI Radeon HD 5000-series graphics cards.

According to the slides, AMD will extend its DX11 Evergreen series cards to the low-end space with the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 5350 on January 7th, followed by the arrival of the ATI Radeon HD 5570 on February 20th.

Carrying the Evora Cedar and Jaguar codenames, the cards are said to feature 1GB and 2GB of on-board memory, respectively. Unfortunately, there's no information regarding clock speeds or shader counts, making it impossible to gauge performance.

These look certain to be among the first low-end DX11 cards unveiled by AMD at next month's CES, but could they be 32nm?

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Posted by drunkenmaster - Wed 09 Dec 2009 16:30
It would be fairly hard for them to be 32nm seeing has now TSMC have canceled their 32nm completely, and they can barely get 40nm working let alone 32nm.

All reports indicate TSMC need several new additions to their process's to get to a lower process node and it will be blindingly expensive for 32nm with very little benefit and they were always set to include them with 28nm which was supposed to be due at the end of the year(though based on TSMC's track record thats never going to happen).

Likewise it's incredibly unlikely Global have anywhere else ready for mass production at 32nm and it would be very silly to spend money to alter the chip to be compatible with other fabs, these generation parts are built for the 40nm process at TSMC. It's also rare for AMD/Nvidia to move to a different process on the same generation on the products released in a similar time frame, but to have something 6 months down the line as a refresh done on a new process to test it out. The 4770 was out hugely later than every other 4XXX series card(ok not thr 4890), the top, middle and low end were all the same process and released within a short timeframe, 1 quarter.

Happy to be proved wrong as frankly it would give AMD a ridiculous lead in both tech, size, power and price compared to Nvidia's low/mid end which would be a generation and a process behind, as it is a generation ahead with lower power, more performance and better features will have to do AMD :p
Posted by Jimbo75 - Wed 09 Dec 2009 16:55
Not 32nm, the next one down for ati will be 28nm either done by globalfoundries or tsmc, and its too early right now but maybe in q3 2010.
Posted by alwayssts - Thu 10 Dec 2009 02:57
To give one pertinent example, the X2600/X2400 series were 65nm, where-as X2900 was 80nm. There may be others…That's the only one I remember atm.

Now, I'm not saying I disagree with your notion that it'll be 40nm (as that's pretty certain), but it has happened.