We are familiar with features of GPU version Oland, belonging to Sea Islands. The solution will be applied to the successors of Radeon HD 7870 and Radeon HD 7850, and for the Radeon HD 8900 AMD developers prepare processor, code-named Venus.
Venus chip area will be approximately 420 square millimeters. It will consist of 5.1 billion transistors, GPU will be manufactured on 28 nm technology in TSMC factories. The older version, Venus XTX (Radeon HD 8970), combine 2560 stream processors, 160 texture units and 48 raster operator units (ROP). Content Venus XT (Radeon HD 8950) is a bit more modest: 2304 shader processors, 144 texture units and 32 ROP.
Both GPU will have 384-bit GDDR5 memory controller , allowing decisions to operate on video buffer capacity of 3 or 6 GB. Effective memory frequency is unlikely to be less than 6 GHz, indicating that the capacity at 320 GB / s. The base frequency of Venus processor will reach 1050 MHz, as AMD, may offer the opportunity for dynamic overclocking.
Mass production of cards based on Venus will begin in the fourth quarter 2012.