ATI leaks out Southern Islands codenames for next-gen GPUs

By Vlad Savov posted Aug 27th 2010 at 4:07AM

Um, oops? ATI's latest Catalyst driver release has dished out some info that we imagine the company didn't want to reveal quite yet. The names of some Southern Islands have been spotted -- Cayman and Antilles appear to be the flagship chips -- suggesting a refresh to the critically acclaimed Evergreen line of GPUs may not be far off. Rumors have been swirling for a while about ATI's reputed shift to island-based nomenclature, and while hard specs are nowhere to be found, we can see that the Red Team is planning an overhaul with no less than 10 new additions to its roster. Hardly unpredictable, but good to know that ATI has something to counter NVIDIA's heart-stealing GTX 460.

ATI won't have the next generation until late 2011 from what I read because the 32nm design they wanted was skipped my TSMC to go straight to 28nm so they're working on getting that design going. Everything I've read so far expects ATI to have refreshes of the current 5800 lineup, but like you said no specs so far.