It was discovered that an early version Catalyst 11.7 contains entries for new GPUs, spelling out the possible codenames of upcoming AMD Southern Islands GPUs. Southern Islands is the next generation of AMD Radeon GPUs, which will possibly see propagation of VLIW4 SIMD design to GPUs in all market segments, and possible adoption of 28 nm manufacturing process. Moving on to codenames, 3D Center observes that the top of the line GPU is codenamed “Tahiti”, there is a possibility of two single-GPU variants.
A graphics card that makes use of two Tahiti chips is codenamed “New Zealand”. “Thames” is the codenamed of a possible low cost mobile chip, it could also be a performance chip. There’s some uncertainty here. Not much is known about another chip codenamed “Lombok”, either. Perhaps it’s a performance desktop chip.
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