SUNNYVALE, CA — (Marketwired) — 09/18/13 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it will webcast a special product showcase taking place at the AMD GPU ’14 Tech Day event Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013 at 3 p.m. EDT.
A real-time video webcast of the showcase can be accessed on the Investor Relations home page: ir.amd.com. A replay of the webcast can be accessed approximately one hour after the conclusion of the live event and will be available for 30 days after the event.
Additionally, viewers may access the webcast on the AMD Gaming Facebook page and AMD’s YouTube channel. A replay of the webcast can be accessed on AMD’s YouTube channel.
Along with AMD’s PR piece is the below image:
It’s high expected that AMD will show off their Hawaii GPU architecture as well as the rumoured ‘R9 280X’ – succesor to the Radeon 7970.
What may be of interest to parties looking to spend big on a new GPU is that reading into an AMD exec’s comments with Forbes AMD won’t be aiming for “…a $999 single GPU solution like our competition”. So, it appears an outright “Titan killer” may not be in the works performance wise, but with the card sticking to 28nm and a slightly revamped architecture there is no reason to believe AMD won’t be tackling the next tier down and aiming to take the GeForce 780 to school on price and/or performance.
One thing is for sure, though, anyone looking to dive in at the top end of the GPU market could do with holding on until next Thursday.
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