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by Anthony-Garreffa (Sep, 2012)Well, it appears as though AMD are looking to launch their next-gen high-end GPUs as soon as early-2013 with some out of this world naming.
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Well, it appears as though AMD are looking to launch their next-gen high-end GPUs as soon as early-2013 with some out of this world naming.
You can also see on the chart above that there's a dual-GPU teased, the Radeon HD 8990 - now that will be a monster if I've ever seen one.
Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu
| GPU brand | AMD |
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| GPU name | Curaçao PRO |
| Market | Desktop |
| Clock speed | 900 MHz |
| Is dual GPU | No |
| Reference card | None |
raw performance
| Shading units | 2,304 |
|---|---|
| Texture mapping units | 144 |
| Render output processors | 48 |
| Compute units | 36 |
| Pixel rate | 43.2 GPixel/s |
| Texture rate | 129.6 GTexel/s |
| Floating-point performance | 4,147 GFLOPS |
memory
| Memory clock speed | 1,250 MHz |
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| Effective memory clock speed | 5,000 MHz |
| Memory bus | 384 bit |
| Memory | 3,072 MB |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Memory bandwidth | 240 GB/s |
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Competitors
 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
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 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 780
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 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 770
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 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 670
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 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 690
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 | AMD Radeon HD 7950
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 | AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost
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Other Radeon HD 8950s
 | AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
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 | Dell Radeon HD 8950
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