AMD plans no new graphics cards in 2013

[Lil' ½ Dead]

In a report first spotted by Rage3D from source website 4gamer.net, news is filtering out that AMD may in fact have no new discrete graphics card releases for the remainder of 2013! While talking with the APAC media about the fantastic Never Settle Reloaded game bundle, they showed THIS slide.






That seems to indicate that at the very least through the 3rd quarter of 2013, AMD has no plans to update or add to its discrete graphics card roadmap. We had heard whispers of this fact while at CES in January but this pretty much puts a cap on it. And with the wording of "throughout 2013" it could indicate we won't see new product until 2014.






Also shown, this product comparison between AMD and NVIDIA, put together by AMD, is a bit lopsided and less than 100% accurate in my eyes. With the release of the new 3DMark Fire Strike benchmark AMD has a distinct advantage and it seems the slide here is based completely on that....blech.
Regardless, what does it mean if AMD actually has no new discrete, enthusiast class cards for 2013? We know the rumors are swirling about the NVIDIA GeForce Titan based on the GK110 and sporting 2688 CUDA cores and it will likely take the place as the fastest single GPU card on the market. AMD has been depending on its partners to build multi-GPU options based on Southern Islands like the ASUS ARES II and Powercolor Devil 13 but they have been pretty low volume. Our original review of the HD 7970 launched in December 2011....this could be quite a drought.

AMD plans no new graphics cards in 2013, report | PC Perspective

[CODYglitchSIX]

I'm sticking with nVidia no matter what

[Lil' ½ Dead]

AMD Confirms HD 8000-Series Delay, Almost 2 Years Without New GPUs

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Rad...000,20979.html

[Lil' ½ Dead]

I'm sticking with nVidia no matter what

Nvidia Titan comes to the rescue pretty much.

[Cyberburnout]

Titan is a Niche product not a full product release like the 600 or 7000 series. Its kind of like counting an Updated 7990 as a new line.

From what I hear Nvidia isnt releasing the 700 series until q4 2013 as well because of delays.. Think TSMC is screwing them both up. So they are in the same boat. AMD may not be releasing a new product because of Nvidias delays. What is the rush. If AMD was delayed and not releasing a new CPU for a year do you think Intel would rush out with a new product? Nope. They would continue milking the current line as long as they can.

Either way Nvida and AMD appear to be stuck with product delays.

[TeeBlack]

well i dont plan on buying another video card till maybe next year anyway.

[Doctor_Death]

No big surprise there! but Nvidia may be releasing new cards sometime in Q2 or Q3

[Doctor_Death]

Titan is a Niche product not a full product release like the 600 or 7000 series. Its kind of like counting an Updated 7990 as a new line.

From what I hear Nvidia isnt releasing the 700 series until q4 2013 as well because of delays.. Think TSMC is screwing them both up. So they are in the same boat. AMD may not be releasing a new product because of Nvidias delays. What is the rush. If AMD was delayed and not releasing a new CPU for a year do you think Intel would rush out with a new product? Nope. They would continue milking the current line as long as they can.

Either way Nvida and AMD appear to be stuck with product delays.

7990 is AMD, and they never really followed through with a full release, I believe only a couple of company's released them, and they could not beat the GTX690 Even Power Colors 7990 we reviewed, was to loud, and not as fast.

[realneil]

Nothing wrong with AMD's top of the line cards. NVIDIA is out performing them in a lot of benches, but real world performance between them is not that significant unless you happen to be running benches.