AMD Radeon HD 8950 Listed in Catalyst 13.1

ATIR300=”WDDM (R300)”
AMD68B8.1 = “AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series”
AMD6898.1 = “AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series”
AMD6798.1 = “AMD Radeon HD 7900 Series”
AMD6818.1 = “AMD Radeon HD 8800 Series (OEM)”
AMD679A.1 = “AMD Radeon HD 8900 Series (OEM)”
AMD68F9.1 = “AMD Radeon HD 6350″
AMD683D.1 = “AMD Radeon HD 8760″
AMD68F9.2 = “ATI Radeon HD 5450″
AMD68F9.3 = “AMD Radeon HD 6350″
AMD683D.2 = “AMD Radeon HD 8760″
AMD689C.1 = “ASUS ARES”
…
AMD6778.1 = “AMD Radeon HD 8470″
AMD679A.2 = “AMD Radeon HD 8950″

But wait, there’s more, which is surely an indicator — AMD Radeon HD 8950. The puzzling part is that we are not sure yet, whether this is a reference to a rebranded Radeon HD 7950 for OEMs or something special. Charlie at SemiAccurate made a post where he claims to have a ‘picture of HD 8950′.Some say it’s just a screen grab of Catalyst Control Center with some basic information about HD 8950. Most probably it’s just nothing worth 50 bucks.

There is a lot of mystery surrounding  the Radeon HD 8000 story, which started this year. As I said in my previous post, there’s are two very important questions. The first one: how will the new Radeon flagships be called? And the second one: when are we going to see these cards? This new ‘addition’ to the drivers might give some clarity and hope for the latter question. As for the first one, you can clearly see that the filenames of the official datasheets of recently announced OEM cards like HD 8950 are missing an OEM part. Like there is no chance of preparing the same files for OEM market, since it would require overwriting. So is there a Radeon HD 8960 coming along with HD 8980? videocardz.com