According to the previous rumors, AMD might have the new Pirate Islands R9 380X GPU ready for the first half of 2015 and according to latest rumors, this same GPU might be based on new 20nm manufacturing process.


While there have been a couple of rumors that the 20nm manufacturing process has been delayed for somewhere beyond Q2 2015, which is still a good possibility, the new rumor, coming from Chris Low over at VR-Zone.com, suggest that this will not be the case and that his internal sources have confirmed that Pirate Islands will indeed be based on the 20nm manufacturing process.

According to the same source, AMD will follow similar path to Nvidia and first launch the Radeon R9 380X graphics card based on Fiji GPU, which will be followed by the flagship Radeon R9 390X graphics card based on Bermuda GPU. The same source also suggest that AMD's Pirate Islands GPUs will get HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort 1.3.

Earlier report also suggest that AMD will not be using the 20nm manufacturing process for CPUs and APUs and that the Carrizo APU will most likely stay at 28nm and force AMD to go directly to 16nm FinFET manufacturing process.

These new rumors also suggest that if AMD will launch 20nm GPU in Q1 2015, then we will also see Nvidia's Maxwell GM200 GPU in same time frame or even earlier.

In any case, these new rumors are quite interesting and it appears that we will be looking at an interesting situation on the GPU market in future.



Source: Wccftech.com.