AMD Radeon HD 7000 GPUs listed in leaked driver (drivers download)

AMD Catalyst driver 8.91, presumably preview for 11.11, has leaked on the internet, containing references to AMD's next-gen Radeon HD 7000 family. In addition to previously leaked codenames, the 8.91 driver also lists final branding, ranging from Radeon HD 7300 to Radeon HD 7600 series

 

The relevant names are listed as follows:

AMD6778.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7000 series"
AMD68FA.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7300 Series"
AMD6850.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7400 Series"
AMD6858.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7400 Series"

AMD6859.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7400 Series"

AMD677B.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7400 Series"

AMD6772.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7400A Series"

AMD675D.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7500 Series"

AMD6742.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7500/7600 Series"

AMD6841.7 = "AMD Radeon HD 7500M/7600M Series"

AMD675B.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7600 Series"

AMD6751.1 = "AMD Radeon HD 7600A Series"

AMD6840.7 = "AMD Radeon HD 7600M Series"

AMD683B.1 = "CAPE VERDE PRO"

AMD683F.1 = "CAPE VERDE PRO"

AMD6839.1 = "CAPE VERDE XT"

AMD683D.1 = "CAPE VERDE XT"

AMD6838.1 = "CAPE VERDE XTX"

AMD682F.1 = "CHELSEA PRO"

AMD6824.1 = "CHELSEA XT"

AMD682D.1 = "CHELSEA XT"

AMD6831.1 = "GREAT WALL"

AMD6821.1 = "HEATHROW PRO"

AMD6827.1 = "HEATHROW PRO"

AMD6820.1 = "HEATHROW XT"

AMD6825.1 = "HEATHROW XT"

AMD6819.1 = "PITCAIRN PRO"

AMD6818.1 = "PITCAIRN XT"

AMD6799.1 = "SI NEW ZEALAND"

AMD679A.1 = "SI TAHITI PRO"

AMD6798.1 = "SI TAHITI XT"

AMD6830.1 = "SUMMER PALACE XT"

AMD9901.1 = "TRINITY DEVASTATOR DESKTOP"

AMD9904.1 = "TRINITY DEVASTATOR LITE DESKTOP"

AMD9903.2 = "TRINITY DEVASTATOR LITE MOBILE"

AMD9900.2 = "TRINITY DEVASTATOR MOBILE"

AMD9991.1 = "TRINITY SCRAPPER DESKTOP"

AMD9990.2 = "TRINITY SCRAPPER MOBILE"

AMD6800.1 = "WIMBLEDON XT"

 

There are a string of Radeon HD 7000, containing Radeon HD 7300, 7400, 7500, and 7600 Series. For notebooks, HD 7500M and HD 7600M are listed.  Also mentioned are HD 7400A and HD 7600A Series for All-in-one PCs. 

 

In addition, several codenames have been revealed. Most codenames, such as Heathrow, Chelsea, Thames, New Zealand, and Wimbledon (mobile GPUs) and Tahiti, New Zealand and Cape Verde (desktop GPUs) have been revealed before. We have two new codenames leaked with this driver - Summer Palace and Great Wall. Unlike the mobile GPU codenames which are locales in London and desktop GPUs which refer islands; these two codenames refer to monuments in China. New Zealand and Tahiti now contain the prefix "SI" or Southern Islands. 

 

Finally, a host of integrated graphics codenames for Trinity APUs are also confirmed. We know that Trinity will be available in two forms - quad and dual core, over three segments, presumably A8, A6 and A4. Likewise, the GPU in quad-core parts are codenames Devastator, in both mobile and desktop variants. Devastator will be part of A8 while Devastator Lite will be integrated in A6 APUs, with some units disabled, like the Llano A6 APUs. The dual-core Trinity will most likely feature a scaled down GPU, codenamed Scrapper. Devastator and Scrapper fit in well with the Piledriver CPU cores in Trinity, at least linguistically. 

 

Judging by the concrete brandings, which only go up to HD 7600, it appears AMD is following a similar strategy to NVIDIA - releasing mainstream parts before performance/enthusiast GPUs. Moreover, AMD's demonstrations have all been mainstream notebook GPUs. The die AMD recently showed off is also believed to be a mid-sized mainstream GPU. This strategy makes sense for both AMD and NVIDIA as it allows to learn the unfamiliar 28nm process before delving into complicated large die performance GPUs. 

 

The first AMD Radeon HD 7000 GPUs are expected to release in December, while NVIDIA is aiming for Q1 2012. 

 

Source:(VR-Zone) AMD Radeon HD 7000 GPUs listed in leaked driver

 

 

The 8.91 drivers are available from official site: http://support.amd.com or from direct link: 

Win7 -Vista AMD Catalyst 11.10 preview3 - Win7 - Vista

Win XP: AMD Catalyst 11.10 preview3 - Win XP 

 

 

From tweeter acount (@CatalystCreator):

 
CatalystCreator: Cat 11.10 V3 - will be released officially tomorrow (we wanted to do some Rage testing) - but I see that it's already out in the wild...
CatalystCreator: BattleField 3 - there will a CAP update later this week to resolve CrossFire issues - use in combination with the either V2 or V3 driver
CatalystCreator: Cat 11.10 V3 preview only includes additional Rage fixes from V2
CatalystCreator: Cat 11.10 official release will happen Oct 31 - but Catalyst 11.10 V3 is pretty much the identical driver, so use with BF3 (plus new CAP)

 

Release Notes from AMD site:

AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 Version 3 Preview Driver Features:

• Reduces random crashing and stability encountered when playing Rage on Windows® 7 32-bit edition
• Reduces object / animation flickering and texture corruption encountered when playing Rage
• Reduces stuttering seen on Dual CPU and Tri CPU core systems
• Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on single GPU configurations using the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
• Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on AMD CrossFire™ configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
• Improves performance in Rage on single GPU configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000, AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series and AMD Radeon HD 4000 series of products.
• Reduces intermittent crashing seen loading levels in Rage
• Reduces flickering of NPCs in Rage
• Enables automatic Vsync for Rage
• Enables support for AMD Eyefinity 5x1 display (portrait and landscape) configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products.
• AMD Vision Engine Control Center: User Interface enhancements have been implemented for the AMD CrossfireX™, GPU AMD Overdrive™ and Information Center pages.

Radeon HD 7000 "AMD Southern Islands possible for September"

The upcoming 28nm GPUs

According to a post over at 3DCenter.org, the early version of the Catalyst 11.7 had some interesting codenames of what appears to be at least some chips in the AMD's upcoming Southern Islands GPU lineup based on the 28nm manufacturing process. The new driver lists New Zealand, Tahiti, Thames and Lombok. The next generation of the AMD's 28nm GPUs will most probably use the VLIW4 SIMD design and, if all goes well, should appear in late Q3 or early Q4 2011.

The details regarding the new GPUs are pretty scarse, but for now it looks like Tahiti is the new high-end GPU that will be available in two versions, Tahiti Pro and Tahiti XT. New Zealand will most probably end up to be a dual-GPU variant with two Tahiti GPUs. The Thames is a bit tricky as this could end up to be either a performance chip or one of the new mobile chips. In any case, the Thames should appear in three different versions, Thames LE, Thames Pro and Thames XT/GL. The Lombok code name might be a direct successor of the Barts chip but that info is still to be confirmed and should end up with at least three different versions.

We are still pretty far away from the actual release of these chips but more info should start to appear sooner than later as AMD might try to push these to the market as soon as they can to get some headstart on the competition.

Source: http://www.fudzilla.com

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