AMD Working on Dual Hawaii GPU Card Called Vesuvius

Don’t expect anything for Christmas, but it appears that AMD is working on a dual-GPU graphics card called Vesuvius. The upcoming flagship video card was recently added to product roadmaps and is named after Mount Vesuvius, a stratovolcano in the Gulf of Naples, Italy. Not much is known about this card, but since it uses two Hawaii GPU cores (Hawaii X2) it means that it could feature 5632 stream processors (88 compute units), 352 texture units (TUs), 128 ROPs and 8GB of GDDR5 memory on a 512-bit BUS. If it doesn’t use fully enabled Hawaii GPU’s due to heat or yield issues, it could be using the Radeon R9 290’s Hawaii GPU and have 5,120 stream processors (80 compute units), 320 texture units, 128 ROPs and 8GB of GDDR5 memory on a 512-bit bus. AMD has been having some performance variance issues on the Radeon R9 290 single-GPU cards, so it will be interesting to see what they do on the dual-GPU beast.

What will the dual-GPU card be called? We’ve heard and seen sites calling it the Radeon R9 290Xx2, Radeon R9 290X*2, and the Radeon R9 299. Our vote is for the Radeon R9 290U or something like that where the U stands for Ultimate. Then again, I might be biased as I don’t want to type out Radeon R9 290Xx2 or soemthing like that in all our coverage of it! �