Naming shenanigans aside, the particularly frustrating part of all of this is that what was already a two architecture series just became a three architecture series. Ignore the product number-if you wanted to see new GPUs from AMD, these aren’t the GPUs you’re looking for. The launch of the 28nm Southern Islands architecture will happen soon enough, but it won’t be happening today. Thus AMD may technically be launching the 7000 series today, but it’s the 7000 series in name only. However, AMD is concerned they need to launch new mobile products at the end of this year whether they have new GPUs or not, meaning they need to make do with what they already have.Īs a consequence we’re facing another rebadging situation: the 7000M series launching today is based on AMD’s Turks and Caicos GPUs, the same GPUs that make up part of the 6000M series. We may yet see some kind of 28nm product before the year is out so that AMD meets their stated commitment, but a complete 28nm launch in 2011 is off the table. We expected Southern Island products based on TSMC’s new HKMG 28nm process, but the fact of the matter is that TSMC’s HKMG 28nm process is running late-yields and production capacity just aren’t good enough for the production of high volume retail products for 2011. However the 7000M series launching today is not quite what we had in mind. We’ve had some indication that this would happen-AMD chose to demo the mobile version of their 28nm GPU instead of the desktop version back in September-so this confirms AMDs intentions. Today AMD will be launching their first Radeon HD 7000 series products, and in a significant deviation from normal they’re starting on the mobile side first. As a consequence of building the biggest chips first, new architectures have always launched on the desktop first and have come to the mobile space later once the lesser derivatives were ready. This owes to the fact that high-end GPUs are the flag bearers of a generation, with new architectures being built on these large chips first before lesser products are derived from them. This means launching products like Cypress (Radeon HD 5800 series) and GF100 (GeForce 470/480) first, and following it up with smaller products like Redwood (Radeon HD 5600 series) and GF106 (GeForce 450) later. Traditionally AMD and NVIDIA have launched their new series of graphics products at the high-end and worked their way down. AMD Catalyst Display Driver version 15.201.Introducing AMD’s Radeon Mobility 7400M, 7500M, and 7600M This driver also resolves a crash some users may experience when using those products with this game. This alpha driver contains day one support for World of Warships for the selected products listed. AMD Catalyst Driver for World of Warships for Windows:

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