AMD Graphics series Sea Islands (Radeon HD 8000) are mentioned in the drivers Catalyst, based on data from own sources, we reported that the next generation GPU will be announced in the first quarter 2013. Â
The codes of graphics processors are the names of islands : Venus (Island area in the north province of Palawan, Philippines), Sun (Maldives), Oland (Swedish island in the Baltic Sea) and Mars (Province of British Columbia in western Canada).
Codename |
D Venus |
Sun |
Oland |
Mars |
The crystal area |
~ 410 mm ² |
~ 230 mm ² |
~ 160 mm ² |
~ 85 mm ² |
Number of transistors |
~ 5.1 billion |
~ 3.2 billion |
~ 2.0 billion |
~ 0.9 billion |
The number of processor |
2.4 |
2 |
A |
A |
The number of shader processors |
2560 |
1536 |
768-896 |
320-384 |
The number of texture units |
160 |
96 |
40-48 |
20-24 |
The number of ROP units |
32-48 |
32 |
16 |
8-16 |
Memory Bus |
384-bit |
256-bit |
128-192-bit |
64-128-bit |
Position line |
Radeon HD 8900 |
Radeon HD 8800 |
Radeon HD 8700 |
Radeon HD 8600 |
The speed gain |
~ 30-40% |
~ 20% |
~ 15-35% |
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